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Footballguy
No offense intended Lightning Fast Whip, but I really don't think you know what you're talking about in regards to Porter and I think you're serverely underestimating just how good and the high level of play both Brown & Rice were producing at only a few years ago.FYIHe couldn't beat out Brown for #2 in 2002 (of course he blames Gruden not himself). Wasn't going to beat out Rice until Rice was practically in a walker. TO beat out Rice just fine. If Porter was a true #1 he'd have done the same before 2004. He hadn't beat out Rice in 2003 before the injury or after returning from it. In fact Curry was putting up better stats even in 2004 than Porter before Curry got hurt again. Porter is a #2 nothing better despite his appearance wearing a title belt. I hope Al Davis and Shell bury him on the bench and Curry stays healthy enough to keep him there.Guess you've forgotten Porter only appeared in 10 games in 2003 and ended up having surgery for an initially improperly diagnosed abdominal tear.I don't think even Holt, Harrison, or TO would've been able to beat out Rice & Brown, while playing with an abdominal tear.Not really true. A good WR could have beat out those Dinosaurs that were in front of him in 2003.Well, to be fair, those "many opportunites to become the #1 WR for the Raiders" was actually only one opportunity and that was in 2004.As a fan, the whole Porter fiasco just doesn't sit well with me. There's nothing worse for Art Shell than starting his first (in along time) training camp with a major distraction like this. Jerry Porter is a big baby. His pouting actually began when they traded for Randy Moss. Porter's had many opportunites to become the #1 WR for the Raiders and he's never been able to do it. And Al Davis still throws millions of dollars at him and he acts like this? They should cut him loose right now and let Porter go somewhere else and show the rest of the NFL he's just another Alvin Harper or Peerless Price.
Porter was a jack of all trades in High School.
- Porter then only Lettered for three years in College. This was a huge reason Porter was as raw as the steak at your local Grocery store coming into the NFL, is because of how he was used at West Virginia & at Coolidge High.
Sophomore
Appeared in every game, seeing action at free safety and flanker as a sophomore.
Junior
Recorded 28 tackles As a junior, All-Big East Conference selection after starting every game at free safety ... In on 63 tackles with five interceptions and five passes defensed ... Gained 129 yards on eight kickoff returns (16.1 avg) ... Recovered an onside kickoff, returning the ball 29 yards, deflected a pass and came up with 12 tackles against Ohio State ... Posted three straight six-tackle performances - against Rutgers, Miami of Florida and Temple.
Senior
Saw action as a free safety in the first five games, filled in as an emergency quarterback vs. Rutgers and then finished the second half of the season as a flanker.
So of the above three years in Porter's College career, he had about one, to maybe one and a half seasons worth of experience, at the Flanker position
2000 Porter's 1st year in the NFL, he only played in 12 games, starting none and what little action he did see as a WR, it was in the slot.
(Brown 76 recpt, 1,128 yds, 11 TD's & Jett 20 recpt, 356 yds, 2 TD's ahead of him)
2001 Porter garnered slightly more playing time, appearing in 15 games, but only ended up starting in one as a WR and that one start was again in the slot. (Brown 91 recpt 1,165 yds, 9 TD's & Rice 83 recpt, 1,139 yds, 9 TD's ahead of him)
2002 is the year Porter began to really show his talent. He appeared in all 16 games that year, starting 14 while filling the the WR slot position and posting solid #'s - 51 recpts for 688 yds with a 13.5 avg and 9 Td's.
(Brown 81 recpt, 930 yds, 2 TD's & Rice 92 recpt, 1,211 yds, 7 TD's ahead of him)
2003 Porter suffered a set back. Here I am correcting myself. Porter was initially diagnosed as having an abdominal strain, which as it turns out, was a mis-diagnosis by the Raiders medical staff. A second opinion revealed his injury to actually be a Sports Hernia which he ended up requiring surgery for. He did appear in 10 games, but only started one and wasn't truly healthy in any.
(Brown 52 recpt, 567 yds 2 TD's & Rice 63 recpt, 869 yds, 2 TD's ahead of him)
2004 we know what he did. His first year in the NFL playing full-time at the WR flanker position, Porter rang up 64 recpts for 998 yds with a very nice 15.6 avg to go along with 9 TD's.
2005 saw Porter in the #2 WR role and he posted a decent, if not great, 76 receptions 942 yards & 5 TD's with a 12.4 ypc.
