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Originally Posted by Megatron96
it goes without saying that the most talented ball-carriers are WRs, out of all offensive position groups.
But don't take my word for it; simply go through each team's stats and it's pretty obvious that the most able scorers are the WRs, across the league for at least the last 25+ years. Not terribly surprising, considering they generally speaking are the fastest, most able pass-catchers on the field.
As such, they generally score most of the TDs for any given team.
Except the Chiefs, in 2022. In 2022, the Chiefs WR room caught just 13 TDs, while the rest of the teams' starting WRs in the playoffs averaged over 20. Iirc, the top 5 playoff teams starting WRs averaged closer to or over 25 TDs.
The question I've asked myself, and apparently many others have as well since the Hopkins' trade rumors first began, is how feasible it is really to depend more on an oft-injured backup RB to score 10+ TDs than on our top 3 WRs to produce the same or better?
I just personally don't like those odds as much as others seem to.
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Because nobody cares. McKinnon's problem has never been talent, and if McKinnon can't go, I see no reason Pacheco can't do a lot of the same work in year two. Schematically, if they've managed to cover Kelce and the WRs, then we'll eat them alive with the backs. It's literally how the offense is designed. It's not a problem, it's a feature. This is all a bunch of hand wringing about nothing.