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Originally Posted by Kiimo
Another thing about Burden I feel like some posters here are thinking he's only worth taking if he's a bonafide WR 1 and I'm like nah he makes our receiving room amazing you have two guys to can work in and out of the slot getting hard catches and adding a ton of yards after the catch then you have two guys in Worthy and Hollywood who have jets.
I'm pushing hard for that to be a reality. I think it could be and it would be AMAZING. And we need it when Kelce is gone.
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Burden is also fast enough to be a real threat down the field in the 3x1 sets if he's left 1x1 either out of the stack or as the isolated player.
A WR room of Burden, Worthy, and Rice would let you evolve your offense without really evolving it.
Rice becomes your Kelce replacement. We saw at the start of the year that he can do a lot of the things that Kelce did/does. Obviously, the YAC. But he's really crafty at finding spots in zones, and he's got the short-area quickness and slippery-ness to create short separation.
Worthy is obviously your prime deep threat and is a really dangerous player in screens just because of how fast he is and how he can destroy pursuit angles. Over time, he's going to become more of an intermediate threat, too, because of his ability to break off the deep threat routes.
And then you have Burden, who is a YAC monster himself, but who also has great hands, can catch outside his frame, has the speed to get deep, can high-point the ball against single coverage, and really be what KC envisioned with Sammy Watkins.