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FWIW he did mean Nico. I clicked on the tweet and someone mentioned Nico and he said that his contract was a placeholder.
If anything, it seems like a bit of a hometown discount. $28.75 AAV is what similar WRs got last offseason before the cap went up 9.3%.
Some might say injury discount but I think he'd have toppled $30M on the open market so I'm with you, a hometown discount if anything.
If you told me he played 16 games in a season I’d be surprised if he wasn’t top 10. Unbelievably talented.
Did he plan on getting injured the other years?
Seriously.
Moved up my rankings with this breaking news
Cap tip - it’s a good plan.
Lol exactly. Maybe just maybe he finally decided to take care of himself. We can only hope. When he is on the field he is a difference maker but he's banged up every other game.
You don't think he takes care of himself??
I don't want to spend a lot of time on this but there are college players who come into the NFL and then realize just doing "enough" to get by isn't enough. If you look at guys like Derek Henry, Tom Brady, Lebron James etc who are 100% all in on their health, eating, rest and recovery, etc maybe he realized he should be doing more.
100%. I call it the Jerry Rice thing. It's the thing you can't know for sure during combine interviews. Is this player gonna give 80% and cruise with his talent or is this player gonna Jerry Rice it and give every second of everyday to get better. Think Kobe also. I have no idea what Tee is or has been in this regard.
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in the room of not only his health but Burrow's. I say that mainly because if you look past his "fully" healthy games with a healthy Burrow he was not that far off, not top 3 WR stuff but top 10 kind of production.I feel like the 0 week thing is overblown. It happened 2 times in 2022. It hasn't happened since. I wouldn't call it a habit.
I’ll be the 1st to admit personal bias as Higgins killed me for years.
If you believe that’s replicable. His career numbers suggest otherwise.
It's actually happened 3x but it's beside the overall arching point is he's got a nasty habit of crushing you with early exits or not being sure of his status and he played very little.
Really?
I know you're biased against him, but PPG monsters are what I look for. He's Nico that also that takes games off like him but you know which games he's taking off so you can sub someone else in. The fact that you can get him in the late 3rd/early 4th (or half the price in auction) is already a steep discount for his production.
Hammy strains aren’t about taking care of his body - they’re repeated tearing of the muscle fibers, with scar tissue forming each time. The link I posted above seemed clear that it’s the type of injury that only gets more likely to happen.
That would be great if that’s how it actually worked. But it doesn’t. It’s not black & white he plays or he’s out. It’s the gray area in between that’s problematic for FF and can/will cost you wins.
