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Completely writing off someones talent because "he did it once, two years ago" (where he was the #2 PPR WR - 84/1646/9 on 14 games played) is a gross undersell of Gordon the player. Just because he hasn't played in a while, doesn't mean he's lost all of his ELITE skill/talent.
By your same logic, in those games RG3 played where he averaged ~220yds/gm, he's never had an elite receiver like Gordon catching his passes. So it's not out of the realm of possibility to see an uptick in passing yards for RG3, by a large margin... Especially considering their innate chemistry together. Gordon has had way worse QB's throwing to him before.
Well, this would prorate to a 64-1,013-8 season over a full 16 games. Roughly what John Brown did last year. Or a few more TDs on a few less receptions than what Amari Cooper did.
I agree about the two years away from the game part but not the production when he was last on the field. He went from Norv (who rules) to K.Shanny (who sucks), he wasn't allowed to be anywhere near the team or the facilities and therefore missed the entire off-season program and training camp and still posted 8 for 120 in his first game back (only 50% catch rate though).
Yeah, his first game back he had decent stats on 16 targets (oh my)...but after that he didn't do much at all. My point on that is maybe he's not as good as his "magical" 2013 season - these things happen. He's certainly talented, but this is a whole new system and circumstances. I'd rather project low end numbers and miss out, because I think it's the more likely scenario that he'll be closer to good than phenominal.
Shanny WRs put up lots of catches and yards, hence the 16 targets when Gordon first came back, but they have been terrible for TDs. Julio had 203 targets last year and only managed 8 TDs. That's sad.
You would have probably had a good point had I actually done anything like that. But, since I didn't....ponza88 said:
In mocks he did spike into the 6th for a time back when the news first broke.
It depends. If he performs no better than those guys once he's back - which is very possible - then you have carried a guy for four weeks of zero production and then still have his bye week to contend with.
You do realize a lot of players get injured and are out of football for years at a time, right? I do agree that people may be underestimating this, but lets not act like running and catching a football(after doing so most of their lives) isn't fairly easy to pick back up. Muscle memory is a beautiful thing.
Injured players rarely lose 20 straight months. Can you name any that did and returned to form? He got no offseason work in 2015 or 2016. Most guys when hurt were in a preseason program getting conditioning, reps, and install both the year before they got hurt and the following offseason as well in addition to whatever, if any, regular season time they get. It's not at all the same thing.
This is a straw man.
