(12-28-2023, 01:42 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: When I watch the all-22 from before the bye week - it seems rather obvious how they "wanted" to use him.

He's in on 30-40% of the offensive snaps.
He is a blocker only on probably 70% of those snaps and they let him run a few routes.
He didn't receive a single target in many of those games because he was never an early read in those plays. Finally in week 6 - they called his number a couple of times where he was either the primary or second read.

I'm assuming something happened in that game or the next week of practice because they cut his snaps after that for a couple of weeks. I'd wager a whiffed block or two forced a change in strategy.

I don't think they ever had intent of throwing to the kid more than 2 or 3 times in a game and folks are just assuming otherwise because they unwisely selected him so early.

I hope he develops and can turn into that solid inline blocker who leaks out for a pass a few times each week.
But I don't expect more than that - and I doubt they intended more than that.

Him being able to get open depends on how many targets he gets.  The more he gets open and beats his man the more they will throw him the ball.  He also has to be able to block if we wants to continue to see action.  I doubt they put a number on how many times they want to throw him the ball.  It just depends on how he is at practice and how he is doing during the game and when he is constantly out there making mistakes like he was when they tried to start using him more it's why they started reducing his playing time.  

 It's not this black or white answer, " yeah we will throw it to him 2 times this week"  the following week, "how about let's throw it to him 3 times this week"  lol. The way he is playing and practicing will determine the type of action he will see and it hasn't been good so far when they gave him his opportunities

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