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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
Sorry, didn't want this getting overlooked in the other thread. Then again, people will probably ignore it anyway - I know some of you will appreciate this.
I keep seeing people say that Dwayne Bowe isn't an elite WR. So I decided to do some research to see how he matches up statistically over his 5 years in the league.
What I found, is that statistically, Bowe is the 10th best WR of the last 5 years.
I found 9 other WR's that either had better yardage totals, better TD numbers or both. He was 10th in yardage, tied for 6th in TD's.
Here's the list. (Yardage/TD's) Bolded players have fewer or same TD's as Bowe.
Larry Fitzgerald - 6480/49
Roddy White - 6422/42
Reggie Wayne - 6234/36
Wes Welker - 6105/31
Calvin Johnson - 5872/49
Andre Johnson - 5703/35
Greg Jennings - 5539/46
Steve Smith - 5353/29
Marques Colston - 5202/40
Dwayne Bowe - 4927/36
Personally, I think that's impressive on its own.
Especially when you consider the only guy on this list who is younger is Megatron. I'd be curious to see how he matches up to the same players during each of their first 5 seasons.
Anyway, when you compare Bowe's number's to the #1 yardage and #1 TD's - he's not nearly as far off as it seems.
It comes down to 19.41 yard a game, and .16 TD's per game.
Factor in that Bowe is missing something the other 9 have - solid QB play.
After looking at this, its hard for me to say Dwayne Bowe is NOT an elite WR, considering how his numbers match up to the "elite" and never having the benefit of decent QB play.
I'm pretty confident in saying that with solid QB play, Bowe would easily make up 19.41 yards and .16 TD's a game.
Like him or not, he's an elite WR - and has shown it over his 5 years in the league.
Dude deserved elite money.
Or, tl;dr - **** him.
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First of all, it will help your worthless stats when he was the only target for years. How many games did he win? How many wins in his 27-53 regular season record as a starter do you credit him with?
What about the fact that he averages only 7.2 TD's a season. While guys like Fitz and Megatron, guys he wanted to be paid in line with, averaged almost 3 more TD's per season with 9.8 per season. Those numbers are with 2010, in which he scored 42% of his career TD's. Nearly HALF. The other 4 years of his career, Bowe averages 5 TD's a season. Not exactly 100 million dollar contract material.
With that logic, we should definitely extend Cassel for his 27-7 performance in 2010.
Second, if he's the tenth ranked receiver, pay him like it. Don't pay him as though he's top 3.