Wide Reciever Depth

[rmcjacket23]

On 4/11/2017 at 8:32 PM, Ravenseconbeast said:

You are asking almost the impossible.  So you get drafted and don't succeed with your first team.  The possibility of anyone giving you a 2nd chance to be groomed like your first team is slim to none.   

I can list you all the WR we drafted since Joe was drafted and you can name me how many of those WRs actually broke 1000 yards.   Fair?

Justin Harper

Marcus Smith

David Reed

Tandon Doss

Torrey Smith

Tommy Streeter

Aaron Mallette

Michael Campanaro

Darren Waller

Breshad Perriman
 

1. Well 8 of the guys on that list were taken in the 4th round or later, including 5 taken in the 6th or 7th rounds. You'll have a very hard time finding quality football players drafted on this team in the 6th or 7th round throughout the history of the franchise, regardless of position.

So you basically have a first rounder still on his rookie deal, and a 2nd rounder who played quite well and got a lucrative contract on his next team.

2. Some of the guys listed here actually did go sign with other teams, so by definition, they were given 2nd chances. If for some reason you thought that they would go to another team with a chance to start, that's an unreasonable expectation on your part only, since there's really no basis for that expectation.

Basically I see a group of mid-to-late round draft picks who didn't play well here, and either were out of the league entirely or went somewhere else and didn't play well there either.

Kind of hard to spin that as a Ravens problem, other than just being a poor draft pick.

[Maryland]

15 hours ago, jazz1988 said:

I know Perriman dropped some passes last year and I'm not saying he's a proven receiver yet but i don't think he did totally nothing last year either. The guy caught 50 percent of his passes, had 499 receiving yards, and 3 touchdowns while averaging 15 yards per catch.. It's not even unreasonable to think  that his rookie season would have been similar to Torrey Smith rookie season if he had more targets/snaps on offense. I thought Perriman showed some growth as a receiver and season went on last year but of course he still has more to prove.

It sounds like you're suggesting that Perriman has potential, which I agree with, but he's not yet a player that I can comfortably slot as a future starter for years to come. To put what I am suggesting another way, there is nothing about the existence of Perriman or Moore that would preclude me as a GM from drafting multiple WRs. Even if Perriman turns out to be a solid starter, we still need more receivers for the future. 

[rmcjacket23]

5 hours ago, Maryland said:

It sounds like you're suggesting that Perriman has potential, which I agree with, but he's not yet a player that I can comfortably slot as a future starter for years to come. To put what I am suggesting another way, there is nothing about the existence of Perriman or Moore that would preclude me as a GM from drafting multiple WRs. Even if Perriman turns out to be a solid starter, we still need more receivers for the future. 

Well we could certainly draft multiple receivers, but I see no scenario where they are both high picks that would play over Perriman this season. IF we did that, it would likely be one WR drafted in the first 2-3 rounds, with another drafted very late. The very late guy, obviously, is highly unlikely to even see the field at all or possibly not even make the team, since players in those rounds rarely pan out.

Regardless of what happens on draft day, Perriman is going to play a lot this season (barring injury) and adding even a first round WR isn't going to change that. Plus, given what the team has already told us about the type of receiver they are looking for, they'll likely be targeting a bigger receiver who can work the middle of the field, which wouldn't change what Perriman does that much.

And when you factor in that Mike Wallace is in the last year of his deal, it makes far more sense to invest more in Perriman than it does Wallace.

[Sunday QB]

I really hope the Chris Matthews at 6'5 228 lbs get every chance to prove himself and be a valuable target.

[frozen joe flacco fan]

To the OP:

The title of your post is Wide Reciever (sic) Depth. By way of clarification, the spelling rule is "I before E except after C or when sounding like A as in neighbor or weigh."

IMO, our problem is not that we lack WR depth. Rather, it is that we lack a marquee #1WR like Julio, Dez, Jordy, Odell, Antonio, A.J. or facsimile thereof. The same could be said for our TE group. There is plenty of depth but no premier standout like Dennis (pre-injuries), Todd Heap or Shannon Sharpe. I think the FO had pinned their hopes on Maxx Williams but that has been a big bust so far.  

[Jonah DeVito]

On 4/19/2017 at 8:20 PM, Sunday QB said:

I really hope the Chris Matthews at 6'5 228 lbs get every chance to prove himself and be a valuable target.

He definitely could be a dark horse for us.