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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
big difference between a 'band aid' WR and Deandre Hopkins. If you're paying Hopkins, you're playing him, and you're getting him targets otherwise, this is an extremely poor use of resources. So no, there aren't 'plenty of snaps' available, not for three young WR's that you're trying to develop.
As for 'not ready', yeah, well, I offer (once again!) the case of Christian Watson, who was clearly 'not ready' early in the season but season's end was a TD machine. Man, he was terrible early on, but when it clicked for him, it clicked big time. Now GB has a stud. Skyy had 4 veteran WR's in front of him. Highly unlikely ANY rookie is going to grasp this offense well enough to outperform the veterans right out of the gate. In year two? Sure. I bet he does great.
This WR room is not 'thin' on anything but proven production. Not in skillsets, not in talent, not in potential. Some of these guys are going to be very good, and some will probably disappoint, but there are enough of them in the mix to be pretty confident that we'll be fine. And 'fine' by Mahomes/Reid/Veach standards means AFCCG's at a minimum.
The 'band-aid' WR's, by the way, are already in place with James and Watson. Those are your insurance policies.
It's going to be fine.
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Watson and James are there to insure the back of the roster, not the front. There is enough potential in the WR room but there is also a LOT of risk. We don't know if toney can last a full season or regularly take high snap counts. When he's not on the field it's possible we have a WR3 at best as our WR1. And that's not the kind of experiment I want to be running while we still have a dominant kelce.
I generally like where we're heading with our wr room. But it is raw and uncertain as hell. And we don't have to throw these guys to the wolves to learn about and deveiop them. you seem convinced that a WR1 even if we got him for free is some kind of Boogeyman. As if we're not gonna find snaps for skyy or rashee. As if our offense approach completely regresses back to the one bad half of football we played against Cincy with Tyreek. And you seem to "oh well" if it doesn't work out. Because reid and mahomes can make it work. While theres some truth to it it shouldn't be our crutch. I don't get the "let mahomes make lemonade" stuff. One day we'll have talent in our WR room again (maybe we already have it on our roster) and my guess is people will not want to return back to the days where we thought efficiency was our ceiling.