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re: D-Rob...why is he the #1 WR?

Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:56 pm to
Posted by fibonaccisquared
The mystical waters of the Hooch
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Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:56 pm to
I didn't have a problem with the question. I think it was fair. Raw athleticism is off the charts, but obviously he's not going to go out and win a ton of fade route battles in the end zone a la AJ Green. I'll be excited as hell to have him on the team if he chooses the good guys, but I am hoping that we'll continue to try and get at least one elite 6'2"+ wideout going forward as well... a vastly different dynamic when you can force double coverage with a size receiver and then open things up with athletic WRs like Godwin and Drob. Add in Blaze/Nauta/etc at the TE spot and/or Sony Michel as a legitimate homerun receiving and rushing threat and it starts to become a pick your poison for the defense. This is of course all dependent on other pieces working as expected (OL, QB, Chaney...) but having a kid that electric on the field is never a bad thing, particularly if we're able to have a solid *derecruitment* for him as well and get him to buy in to the need to compete... WRs are by and large the biggest divas to begin with... not saying DRob would be one, but this whole process definitely seems to be a bit in the red flag territory.
Posted by S1C EM
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Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:18 pm to
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he's not going to go out and win a ton of fade route battles in the end zone a la AJ Green.


And that's kinda my thought process here. AJ was far and away the best receiver I think we've ever had and it was largely due to his size and ball skills (and, as you say, his ability to win those "fade battles"). And again, I'm not saying that D-Rob's skills and athleticism aren't off the charts. I'm just thinking from a macro-view here....there are a LOT of receivers in each class every year....and I'm wondering if there really were no other guys with similar intangibles who ALSO possessed the size factor anywhere in the entire country.

Not to mention, if he was only a 4-star guy last summer, who were the guys in front of him then and why? Where did they end up ranked as of signing day? Obviously, I don't expect many people to really know the answer here, but obviously D-Rob wasn't the consensus pick not so long ago.
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