re: Just read an interesting post...

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This is true I feel like the talent at the WR is unreal

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Unreal how?

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To be honest, from what I saw of BVG, I wasn't really all that intrigued.

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of course you wasnt

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I’m guessing we might lose Mathis as well?

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Mathis needs to move to WR

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Mathis needs to move to WR

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My guess is that Mathis is not wanting to take WR type hits following brain surgery.

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We've been pretty shite at both recruiting and developing the WR position for quite some time.

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IDK.Ridley and Cager are both on NFL rosters and who knows what happens with Jeremiah Hollaman if he wasn't dismissed.

There are others like DRob and Landers,Tommy Bush that didn't develop due to injury or whatever reasons.We've also had some flat out bad luck with injuries. Blaylock,Rosemary,Pickens and Bush this year and numerous last year along with folks leaving at the position.

Expirence is a big factor when it comes to WR success and unfortunately our most talented guys are Sophomores and Freshman and many are injured or banged up.

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Ridley and Cager are both on NFL rosters and who knows what happens with Jeremiah Hollaman if he wasn't dismissed.

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Cager was a grad transfer, tough to take any development credit for what he's doing currently. Unfortunately was not able to stay healthy for us.
Ridley I feel like is Exhibit A for our limited WR development. Right, wrong, or indifferent, Kirby's early attitude toward what he wanted at the WR position from a physical/blocking standpoint generally left freshmen unable to crack the depth chart for much playing time. I think we're seeing an adjustment as he starts to realize that he needs explosiveness at the position, and the tradeoff may be slightly less physical blocking specimens on the outside.

Holloman I mentioned in a post a page back or so. He would have been our best development story likely if he could have stayed out of trouble. He was also our highest rated WR in that class @ 125 nationally. Mark Webb was right behind him but he shifted to DB. Beyond that, Trey Blount (324) has not had any meaningful contributions receiving and Matt Landers (681) is shaping up to be the "almost most promising" receiver that we all wish didn't have to see the field.

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Expirence is a big factor when it comes to WR success and unfortunately our most talented guys are Sophomores and Freshman and many are injured or banged up.

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Not sure what you're getting at here exactly. We likely are in agreement. I've said we've improved our recruiting, thus the reason our talented WRs are young. That doesn't change the fact that our development of other WRs up to this point seems to be subpar such that Landers, Bush, DRob, etc are not able to contribute in any meaningful fashion. Certainly losing Holloman to dismissal hurts a ton here, but another key problem is that some of our better WR contributors have been transfer/Juco (Wims/Cager) so we don't get 3 years of value out of them.

When I say we we've sucked at recruiting/developing the position for some time, that extends beyond Kirby's tenure. We only have one receiver in the history of the program who has managed a 1,000 yard season (Terrence Edwards) and you have to go back to 2012 to find one that cracked 900. We've seemingly taken a spread the ball around approach more often than not when it comes to passing the ball, whereas I feel like other teams are better able to scheme to ensure that their best receiver(s) are getting the ball more often. We may never be a team that throws it a million times a game, but to the point of experience, I think we could do a better job ensuring that the players we *want* catching the ball, are better prepared to do so, and then are able to have the lion's share of targets as well.