2018 NFL YAC Leaders

[AU-panther]

10 minutes ago, stbugs said:

I won’t complain about the last two drafts because they were both good but Hall, Haynes and Gaulden were picks that puzzled me and in hindsight were picks that easily could have made both drafts amazing if the correct picks were made. I know @ncfan and I like Kittle, but at that point Olsen hadn’t been hurt yet so I can’t say for sure that we even had TE on our list yet. It should have been but I don’t know if it was.

That said, Thomas is better than all that you listed except Kittle. Roberts, Butt and Leggett have done nothing. Maybe we didn’t think much of them but made a mistake on Kittle. Thomas does take the sting off that. Also, Wise has been OK and Hendrickson has done nothing. Lawson had a great rookie season but tore his ACL last year and did year his other ACL in college.

Not every pick works out but I wasn’t a fan of any of those three.

I'm not saying the picks I suggested were all great, more to illustrate how trading up can be really dangerous.  Wise hasn't been great but if I'm not mistaken he is still with the team that has drafted him and has some decent moments which is head and shoulders better than what we got out of Hall.

So we didn't just miss on one pick (77), we missed on two (98 and 115).  We could have drafted a player that we could have cut in the future at 98 and still had 115 left to maybe get lucky and find a quality player like Kittle.

Even if you don't find a player like Kittle, players like Roberts, Butt and Leggett all made teams.  A player doesn't have to be a starter to be a successful draft pick, especially later in the draft.  You get a back up on a cheap, fixed cost deal for 4 years which gives them time to improve.  That is how you keep your team cheap and young.

I don't mind the Hall pick as much as the fact we moved up for it.  I realize that not every pick is going to work out, actually most aren't, but I don't want to reduce my chances of getting lucky.  

I think what happens is that GMs and coaches convince themselves they are right this time when history and the analytics tell us its a gamble.  I think teams would be better off if they took the ego out and played the odds.

 

[Icege]

20 hours ago, GOOGLE JIM BOB COOTER said:

YAC without context is pretty meaningless. receivers who catch the majority of their passes at or behind the LOS should have high YAC. the only players that matter on the list in that tweet are the tight ends and juju. mccaffrey would have to be incredible to overcome the limited positional value of running backs and to justify the 8th pick. of course drafting a good running back beats drafting a bad tackle or w/e but it's going to be hard for him to ever live up that investment. not his fault of course but some people are too invested in proving a point that just isn't there.

You don't say...

[mc52beast]

On 1/25/2019 at 4:25 PM, Davidson Deac II said:

Maybe, but he did catch some deeper passes on occassion.

 

Or could YAC mean yards after contact?  

Could be contact or catch... either way the dude was impressive

[Moo Daeng]

Yes he was with it but this stat is meaningless in determining worth.