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Originally Posted by Megatron96
The WR room significantly underperformed, particularly in scoring TDs (13).
What happened was McKinnon went off in the second half of the season, scoring 10 TDs and snaring 512 yards receiving on the season, making up for JuJu falling off, and the WRs in general struggling to get into the EZ (except for Hardman). And no, it's not normal for RB2s to go 512/9.
Opposing defenses simply didn't account for McKinnon becoming a WR out of the backfield.
That won't be the case in 2023. Opposing DCs will make adjustments and McKinnon won't be as effective.
Toney has played more than 10 games in a season just once between college and the NFL over 5 seasons, due to injuries. He averaged about 25 yards/game receiving. He's going to have to more than double that in his new role as WR1. But now he'll be facing the CB1 of every defense, not the CB2/3/4. However, if he continues to have injury issues, he may not break 500 yards.
Skyy had just one game in which he caught more than 4 balls for more than 35 yards (5/64). He had 11 games in which he caught 1 ball or less, and only 3 games in which he caught more than 3 balls. And it wasn't just because he was buried on the depth chart, or just because Pat's aim was off occasionally.
Rice, based on Andy's history since he came to KC, will probably see about 50-60 targets this season, assuming all goes well in preseason. Assume he catches about 66% of them. That'll be around 450 yards, and that's probably in the ballpark for him in 2023.
Richie is more than likely rotational depth, and it's his first season in Andy's offense. He's had injury issues recently, but let's pretend he plays all 17 games, or at least 90% of the season. He might be good for about 300-400 yards, and I'll go out on a limb here and say 25 1st downs, which is really more important the yards for his role.
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Sure.
But opposing DC's made adjustments to Tyreek as well.
It's the name of the game. Punch, counter punch. Punch, counter punch.
I swear, all we ever hear is "draft and develop" "do like NE, we wanna be a dynasty like Belicheck".
Well......here you go. This is how you're gonna have to do that in a salary capped league.