(12-14-2023, 08:17 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(12-13-2023, 10:28 PM)Eric1 Wrote: Doesn't matter how much talent at WR the incoming draft class has, you still have to remember who the GM is.

Baalke can't draft WRs to save his life. Dude has been god awful at drafting WRs over his history.

I also don't see a rookie WR coming in here and duplicating what Ridley has done so far. Through 13 games, Ridley has 55 catches, 742 yards and 5 TD. Pretty sure he also leads the league in drawing DPI calls as well.

Do we really expect a rookie to come in and go for at least 65+ catches, nearly 1k or so yards and say 6 or 7 TDs? Sounds like we're setting up for expectation failure imo.

Rashee Rice essentially has the numbers right now.

And this upcoming draft class is very good. Definitely better than the rookie class this year.

I don’t know what’s the right move here and a lot will depend on the last 4 (hopefully more) games the Jags have left.

Ridley just isn’t consistent enough and is still making rookie/week 1 mistakes. With Trevor, I do think a rookie can do what Ridley is doing. They also would have a much lower cap figure.

I hope Ridley turns it on here in the last month because the Jags need him to be great.

I was curious to see what the rookie WRs have done this year stat wise so I decided to look it up. Going to list them in the order they were drafted and by round.

1st round
Jaxon Smith-Njigba - 49 catches, 493 yards, 2 TD
Quentin Johnston - 29, 333, 1
Zay Flowers - 64, 673, 3
Jordan Addison - 56, 713, 7

2nd round
Jonathan Mingo - 36, 377, 0
Jayden Reed - 48, 540, 5
Rashee Rice - 59, 663, 6
Marvin Mims - 18, 298, 1

3rd round
Tank Dell - 47, 709, 7
Jalin Hyatt - 19, 343, 0
Cedric Tillman - 11, 108, 0
Josh Downs - 54, 612, 2
Michael Wilson - 28, 435, 2
Tre Tucker - 8, 161, 0

4th round
Derius Davis - 12, 44, 0
Charlie Jones - 16, 197, 1
Tyler Scott - 11, 92, 0

5th round
Justin Shorter - 0, 0, 0
Dontayvion Wicks - 25, 394, 1
Puka Nacua - 82, 1113, 4

6th round
Parker Washington - 8, 88, 2
Kayshon Boutte - 2, 19, 0
Trey Palmer - 28, 244, 2
A.T. Perry - 5, 119, 1
Elijah Higgins - 4, 49, 0
Xavier Hutchinson - 4, 58, 0
Andrei Iosivas - 5, 39, 2
Demario Douglas - 36, 410, 0

7th round
Antoine Green - 0, 0, 0
Colton Dowell - 0, 0, 0
Jalen Brooks - 5, 63, 0
Ronnie Bell - 4, 51, 1
Grant DuBose - 0, 0, 0

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