Alpha WR's

[kccrow]

Originally Posted by Nightfyre

I will be curious to see how the NFL evaluates Franklin. I don't think he's above Mitchell on most teams boards, but I could be wrong. I think the Texas QB limitations actually hindered Mitchell's production. It's way more productive in that setting to just get the ball in a high probability throw to Worthy and watch him torch the defense with his speed than to take consistent shots down field with those QBs.

Dude what? I'm not even joking. I can't believe you typed that.

[Nightfyre]

Originally Posted by kccrow

Dude what? I'm not even joking. I can't believe you typed that.

You don't think Ewers and Murphy struggled with the deep ball? C'mon man.

[kccrow]

Originally Posted by Nightfyre

You don't think Ewers and Murphy struggled with the deep ball? C'mon man.

Are you going to hinge your evaluation on Ewers' deep ball? That's what you're basing this off of? Sure he needs to get far more consistent but he's deadly accurate on the short and intermediate stuff, which tends to offset that "limitation" quite a bit. If your entire argument for why Mitchell didn't perform to his physical abilities lies solely in Ewers' deep ball, then you might not have as good of a prospect as maybe you thought you did.

Bo Nix has inconsistent deep ball placement and he tends to hang up his WRs with those throws too. Should we give a bit more of a pass to Franklin? Didn't think so.

[Nightfyre]

Originally Posted by kccrow

Are you going to hinge your evaluation on Ewers' deep ball? That's what you're basing this off of? Sure he needs to get far more consistent but he's deadly accurate on the short and intermediate stuff, which tends to offset that "limitation" quite a bit. If your entire argument for why Mitchell didn't perform to his physical abilities lies solely in Ewers' deep ball, then you might not have as good of a prospect as maybe you thought you did.

Bo Nix has inconsistent deep ball placement and he tends to hang up his WRs with those throws too. Should we give a bit more of a pass to Franklin? Didn't think so.

What I think is that the Texas OC would rather dump the ball off to Worthy and abuse his speed against collegiate competition than push the ball deep, except to maintain the threat of it. But in the few opportunities you do have to go deep, they have a low success rate due to deep ball inaccuracy. Sorta like how Jaylen Waddle doesn't get as many looks because Tyreek is on the field.