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Originally Posted by emaw1979
Which part? My opinion that Rice = Jehu Chesson or Moore will have a better career than Rice, who will be off the team in three years. Those are opinions and won't be proven this year.
About the speed and separation? Those thoughts are not just my own but shared by many scouting reports.
What about the hands? The ain't good bro.
"Here are some numbers comparing Rice to some of the other members of this draft class. If you eliminate things like swing passes and screens, and look at targets more than 4 yards down the field, it’s clear Rice has unreliable hands. His drop rate is north of 10% in those situations, his on-target catch rate is below 80%, his overall catch rate is below 50%."
https://drafttime.substack.com/p/rashee-rice-wr-smu |
Literally each part.
Your comp is Jehu Chesson; but Rice is also a direct physical comp to Deandre Hopkins and Brandon Aiyuk. So why did you pick Chesson? Because you read a scouting report that doesn't like Rice and went with that. By the way, many of the same criticisms of Rice were also the criticisms people had for Hopkins and Aiyuk. Inconsistent route running, primarily. There's some slop there that he can get away with in college that he's going to need to clean up in the NFL. But you know, that's why he went #55 overall and not #5. It's not that he CAN'T run routes; he sometimes does, and he sometimes wastes steps on tape. His RAS explosion grades would indicate that with more discipline there he'll be fine.
When you watch, the drops are focus drops. He starts to run before he has the ball sometimes on easy ones. When you watch how he attacks the ball, he does not have bad hands.
Nobody in this class short of Smith-Nigba is close to flawless. But declaring Rice as an out of football in three years guy one day after the draft is asinine.
Moore struggled to get snaps as a rookie, but that was expected in Reid's offense and with 4 veteran WR's in front of him. I'm sure in year two he'll be fine. Rice will probably not get more targets as a rookie than Moore in year two. I have no idea who will ultimately have the better career, but using Moore as an example of a flop, and saying that Rice will be even worse is ****ing stupid.
And I'm not going to argue anymore with you. Your football posts are nearly always negative, and almost always wrong, and you behave like Brett Veach has routinely built 7-9 teams and should be fired, because you clearly are so much better than he is.
You bitch after the fact, but have you ever popped into the draft forum and put your analysis on the line beforehand? Nope. Just complain afterwards and cherrypick scouting reports to be a jerk.
I like Rice, you don't. Fine.
You feel vindicated when a draft pick you didn't like didn't do much; I think that says it all right there.