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The narrative around the draft when Veach tried to trade up was that he was trying to get Mazi Smith with a small contingent saying he was trying to get Anton Harrison. These made sense because all reports were that we were trying to make the move with Dallas. Now we're 2/3 through the season and the narrative changed that we were trying to get Zay Flowers and to have both he and Rice. I find it to be no coincidence that Flowers is the other rookie WR taken high that's doing well and I also don't believe a ****ing word of it. If that's the case, we must have traded out of 6-178 to Dallas when we missed the boat on Puka Nacua (went 5-177), am I right? This is all bullshit. Flowers went 4 picks before Dallas made their selection, where we were reported to want to move to. We were never going to have both and it appears clear that wasn't planned.
Anyhow... moving on. Reid always takes it slow out of the gate with rookies. Always. The quicker they catch on, the more quickly Reid will increase their target share. There is a very real possibility that Rice is a 1k WR as a rookie, which is unheard of in a Reid offense. I'd venture to say he knows how to use him and that he's going to use him just fine going forward. It's not all roses offensively, but we've also been extremely spoiled the past several years. We're going to go through some growing pains, not just this year, but over the next couple of years. We're probably going to have young WRs again next year and we're going to lose Kelce sooner than later. Building a killer defense to absorb some of these growing pains offensively may prove to be genius.
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