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Originally Posted by RunKC
Carr’s first 3 seasons were very good for a young QB. He was a broken leg away from possibly going back-to-back 30 TD seasons.
Unfortunately I think that injury changed him bc he’s never been the same since. It reminds me of what happened with Alex Smith.
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Carr's the same guy he was before the injury. Hell, he's probably better.
Carr was mediocre as hell before the broken leg. The only thing he did well was volume. He got pumped off around here because we were pissed off that we didn't draft our "QBOTF" so people kept holding him up as the one that got away.
Again - the dude threw nearly 600 passes/season in his first 3 seasons for a whopping 6.5 yards per attempt. A 60% completion percentage is pretty much the thresshold for average in the league and he was at 60.9 despite throwing underneath all the time. Was he developing? Sure - and the develpment stalled in '17 when he was trying to fight his way back. Then in '18 and '19 he just stayed on a virtually identical development curve to what he was showing in 14-16.
He was ALWAYS going to be this guy. The injury didn't do anything other than stall his development over the '17 season. So what? You're great or you ain't and what we're seeing in a 28 year old Derek Carr with 6 full seasons as a starter is what we were always going to see.
This guy was never going to be a star. He was always going to be...there. Not good, not bad. He has Andy Dalton's ceiling...maybe. And that's all he's ever had.
The injury didn't matter long-term.