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Originally Posted by Megatron96
How many yards/receptions/TDs/etc. do you think JuJu would have if he were the one catching balls from 4 of the worst QBs in the NFL, instead of the best QB ever? Point being, JuJu basically underperformed in spite of having it as easy as he did in 2022.
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If Juju played on the Cardinals for 16 games this year? He gets 150 targets, 100+ receptions, 1200-1300 yds and probably 6 or 7 TDs, but I'm not too worried about TD production at WR. Who else was gonna get the ball thrown to? Hopkins played 9 games and led them in receiving yds and it's not like they didn't pass it.
Seriously look at Marquise Brown had 64 targets 43 receptions 485 yds and 3 TDs through the 6 games Hopkins missed. Right when Hopkins comes back Brown misses games 7-11, so now Hopkins is the guy to forcefeed.
Who else was gonna get it, Greg Dortch and his 5'7"? Rondale Moore would have been a good option, but he only played for 5 weeks with DHop playing and Moore only played 8 games all season. Well I guess they could have thrown it to Zach Ertz instead of DHop, but that actually couldn't happen because Ertz only played the first 9 games and 9 snaps of game 10 and DHop missed the first 6 of those. So that leaves us with
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AJ Green and Robbie Anderson who was with Carolina to begin the season and barely played when he was with the Cardinals.
So let me ask again, who else was gonna get the targets?
I think the above should illustrate pretty well why DHop got as many targets as he did. Not because he was some awesome talent, but because he was the least incompetent of those playing.
Juju gets to my numbers pretty easily I think, because he'd be by far the best and most competent receiver on that team. A team with trash at QB, trash and hurt at there skill positions, and the a big variable considering everything else, only 3 teams threw the ball more than the Cardinals.