Quote:
Originally Posted by BWillie
Well, I can tell ya what he shouldn't do. Thats roll to camp with your WR1 Kadarius Toney and WR2 Skyy Moore. That would be an absolute disaster and I cant believe so many of you want to do that. You need to add a WR1 to offset the expected decline of Travis Kelce. It will happen. Farher time catches us all.
Veach has something up his sleeve, I just hope it isnt Adam Thielen.
|
Hate it, but have to agree. Being serious, the WR room only managed 13 TDs last season.
The Chiefs won 11 games in 2022 scoring 27 points or less.
9 of those games were decided by less than 4 points
As it stands right now without JuJu, Watson and Hardman, that's 9 less TDs, 73 less 1st downs, and about 1,545 yards.
Look, if Toney can stay healthy, he's probably good for at least 1,000 yards, 50 1st downs and 7-10 TDs. The unknown is can he stay healthy. But if he does, no one's really worried about him being productive.
Skyy just has to somehow be 300% more effective. To 'take over' JuJu's role, he has to at a minimum triple his yards and score more than Juju's paltry 3 TDs.
Then we have Justin Watson, who is a FA, but we expect that he'll be back. He has to do something he's never done, and that's become a starting WR3/4? More than double his yards, triple his 1st downs, etc. 2022 was his career high. He finished the season with a 44% catch rate, and accounted for 315 yards, 12 1st downs and a pair of TDs.
That is not good. That's zero WRs we can at least 90% rely on to perform at a NFL WR1/2 standard in 2023.
And rookie WRs historically don't have 1,000 yard seasons in the NFL.
It's not an ideal situation.