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Eric Decker and Jeremy Maclin, two vets considered washed, are both younger than Edelman, Maclin by two years. Matthews as a fit is unknown, but he's not an unknown quantity. He's had success, and it's been in a role that directly puts him in competition with Edelman.
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It's a small distinction but he caught a six yard pass down to the Indy one yard line on the Pats first scoring drive.
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Shame about Hogan being completely useless but yeah, the rest are all gonna flourish. Love having White as a flex on half my teams.
Yeah, I dumped Hogan for Bernard last week. With Edelman and Gordon, just too many mouths to feed. Wish I had White in any league.
He was wide open on a very nice play action pass down the middle clearly designed just for him. But apart from that . . .
Shhhh....let's not jinx it. He's been the only consistent WR I've had for weeks now.
I don't know. I know he has an ankle/foot injury and I keep checking Roto. He's got a questionable tag on Yahoo!
Who? @Soulfly3? He's always good to go....just ask him!
We don't really have to. In 15 regular and post season games this year, Edelman put up 100 receptions, 1,238 receiving yards, 6 receiving TD, and 112 rushing yards.
Part of the problem in projecting Edelman year to year is he has a high injury risk and we never really know who else the Patriots will roll out there with him. Looking at today in a vacuum, we don't know if Gronk will be back, if Gordon will be reinstated and back, and Hogan and Dorsett are free agents. Edelman can't do everything by himself. Call it a hunch that he won't be the only WR on the team next year.
You pretty much covered the highs and the lows with Edelman. He missed 29 games in 6 seasons and will be 33 next year. Historically, slot receivers don't usually excel into their 30's. The other think that is really hard to account for with NE is the impact of other players being injured and if that helps or hurts Edelman. Gronk missed a ton of time. Amendola was banged up a lot. The RB corps has had years where no on stayed healthy. The OL has had years where almost everyone playing was hurt or a back up. And as I posted earlier, at this point we have no idea who the other receivers and tight ends will be in 2019 for NE.
Welker was more productive and far more durable, but Edelman is better in the postseason than Welker was. Patriots fans will say Edelman because he's been somewhat of a postseason hero.
Welker and its not remotely close. Welker is arguable as a HOF WR, though I wouldn't vote for him personally. He changed the game to an extent, and has had teams looking to find the next Welker for a decade.
It depends what people define as "best." How many Super Bowl winning teams did Welker play on?
Agree 100%
Not a fair fight based on stats. Welker had a younger Brady and got benefit of the attention defenses gave to Moss and later Gronk/Hernandez.
I think they are closer than most give Edelman credit for because you immediately want to compare them from a stats standpoint which Edelman loses every time. NOT saying they’re interchangeable but not as far off as most prob think. Replace Welker with Edelman when he was playing and I don’t think there would be much of a drop off.
