Not understanding Darrin Simmons

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Alex Erickson's positives:
- Was 5th in the league in yards per punt return among eligible players (10+ returns) before today. 9.3 YPR
- 11th in the league in total PR yards (93) before today

Negatives:
- Not a threat to take it to the house.
- No longer does KR because Bengals have someone better, thus reducing his value.
- Has only 12 returns in 9 games. 1.33 returns per game.
- When factoring in today's yardage, Erickson averages 11.78 yards per game in returns. He offers basically 0 value on offense and KR now, so he really only contributes 11.78 yards per game total.

Surely they can have someone else do PR who also contributes more on offense/defense, even if that player ends up having less YPR than Erickson.

It honestly doesn't matter much at this point, as the Bengals are likely to get swept in the division, making their likely best record they can achieve as 7-8-1. That won't be enough to make playoffs, so you may as well just start focusing solely on player development and see which players are worth keeping around. Erickson would not be one of them.