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Is Pilares our best option as kick returner?

rmoneyg35

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I was curious to see who was the top kick and punt return guys for the season and surprisingly I found Pilares was ranked 7th (min 19 attempts). So I was wondering what people thought of Pilares being our future on special teams? I honestly think he might have a chance to be a big play maker as a receiver if given the chance but might have to wait to earn that.

As for Armanti Edwards I believe his time in Carolina might be coming to an end. He ranks 25th in punt return average. His average is low because his longest return is only 17 yards and that's the lowest of any punt return man in the top 25 by 11 yards. If AE can't return punts then what are we keeping him for? He hasn't learned to play the WR spot, can't be a NFL QB and is horrible at returning punts. Why don't we just draft a WR or CB who can play his position and return punts?

OR why we don't have pilares return punts as well? didn't he do that in college?

If anyone wants to check out the kick and return stats here is the link

http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/player/_/stat/returning/sort/yardsPerKickReturn

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This is a really hard question to answer because our ST has been depleted by the injuries to our starters. From what we've seen this year with Pilares' returns it looks like he's probably our best option there to me but our blocking has been abysmal. I'm sure there will be some competition for the job during the offseason but I think given what we had to work with this year and how late in the game he was given the job he'll be fine.

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we can't open holes on returns of any kind.

until we have a STs unit that can do that we're kind of screwed no matter who we have returning kicks/punts.

that said, i don't see anything particularly special or dynamic about pilares or edwards. if we can upgrade we should.

STs in general need a massive overhaul, btw. our kicker and punter look worse than they already are because we don't have a line that can block for them and give them enough protection. i mean that slow turd baker takes forever to get the ball set up for a punt and we can't even give him a tenth of a second before he's got guys in his face and how many kicks have we had blocked? that ain't on mare. he needs replaced for sure (with someone younger) but replacing him isn't going to be an automatic fix.

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There was a kid from Tulsa a couple of years ago who led the nation all-time in all purpose yards. We should bring him in if he is out of jail. Kid got his girlfriend to ring up like a $1000 worth of merch for like $20. Its not a violent crime so I would take him as an undrafted free agent.

Damaris Johnson, WR TLSA 46 1131 24.6 75 0 20 256 12.8 66 1 2

http://espn.go.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/383771/damaris-johnson

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