WR Olamide Zaccheaus

[pulses]

This came from a yahoo article and we should be looking at this guy and he'll be cheap.

A former undrafted free agent out of the University of Virginia in 2019, Zaccheaus is a player who was on the cusp of a breakout last year, but he was largely failed by his quarterback play. He finished the season with a career-high 40 receptions for 533 yards and three touchdowns, but it feels like a better QB situation could have seen an even more productive year for the wideout.

According to PFF’s Arjun Menon, Zaccheaus had 85 snaps last season where he was in single-man coverage. He defeated man coverage on 39 of those snaps, good for a 45.88% open rate.

He definitely knows how to get open and we can use that SPEED in our offense.

[Sled21]

(03-10-2023, 06:38 AM)pulses Wrote: This came from a yahoo article and we should be looking at this guy and he'll be cheap.

A former undrafted free agent out of the University of Virginia in 2019, Zaccheaus is a player who was on the cusp of a breakout last year, but he was largely failed by his quarterback play. He finished the season with a career-high 40 receptions for 533 yards and three touchdowns, but it feels like a better QB situation could have seen an even more productive year for the wideout.

According to PFF’s Arjun Menon, Zaccheaus had 85 snaps last season where he was in single-man coverage. He defeated man coverage on 39 of those snaps, good for a 45.88% open rate.

He definitely knows how to get open and we can use that SPEED in our offense.

We have needs. Wide Receiver is not one of them.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(03-10-2023, 09:50 AM)Sled21 Wrote: We have needs. Wide Receiver is not one of them.

We do have needs, but I disagree that WR depth isn't one of them.

WRs not named Chase/Higgins/Boyd played 718 offensive snaps last year. That's some of the easiest and cheapest improvement to the offense you can make by improving the quality of those 718 snaps. That's a lot! It's right there with the 720 offensive snaps last year played by TEs not named Hurst.

That's a combined 1,438 offensive snaps last year by WRs/TEs not named Chase/Higgins/Boyd/Hurst.

Mike Thomas and Devin Asiasi last year played 381 offensive snaps and produced 4 catches for 43 yards. It would be like if if any of our starting 3 played the same amount of snaps they played last year and ended up with roughly 86 receiving yards. Reduce the amount of times defenses can treat you like you have one less player on the field than they do.

If you can upgrade your depth at those positions from PS guys to quality depth guys, it could have a pretty big impact at a pretty low cost, because there will be some injuries and even when there aren't injuries your starting pass catchers still come off the field for breaks, forcing your backups into the game.

[TecmoBengals]

Let's see if Thielen will join the squad dirt cheap to add quality depth to WR room?

Thielen released by Vikings

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(03-10-2023, 01:04 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: Let's see if Thielen will join the squad dirt cheap to add quality depth to WR room?

Thielen released by Vikings

Thielen is old and washed up IMO we don't need over the hill players we need to continue to add good young pieces to the team.

[pulses]

(03-10-2023, 09:50 AM)Sled21 Wrote: We have needs. Wide Receiver is not one of them.

What LeonardLeap said.

[SunsetBengal]

(03-10-2023, 06:40 PM)pulses Wrote: Thielen is old and washed up IMO we don't need over the hill players we need to continue to add good young pieces to the team.

He may not be ideal to have in your starting 3, but I'd take him off the bench any game.

[pulses]

(03-10-2023, 07:31 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: He may not be ideal to have in your starting 3, but I'd take him off the bench any game.

If he's cheap enough it couldn't hurt.

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

Watched a Falcons game last year where they came back and beat somebody and Zaccheaus was the dude with the clutch TD
late. He is small, but really quick and fast in and out of his routes. Would be for bringing him in, he should do much better in a
passing Offense like we have.

[pulses]

(03-11-2023, 02:20 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Watched a Falcons game last year where they came back and beat somebody and Zaccheaus was the dude with the clutch TD
late. He is small, but really quick and fast in and out of his routes. Would be for bringing him in, he should do much better in a
passing Offense like we have.

Yep and who knows could be our future slot guy