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Originally Posted by HoosierinFL
I’ve been worried since last year that he’s only a #2 WR who has feasted on bad defenses occasionally and benefited from having Luck as his QB.
I don’t recall him having any big games against good teams, who usually beat us and he disappears in those games. Has he had any big games when Luck wasn’t playing?
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To be fair lots of good-great WRs don't do as well when their QB goes down. AJ Green had plenty of "bad" games without Dalton.
The only year he would've had consistent opportunities to play without Luck is 2015. Luck didn't play in weeks 4 or 5, and then weeks 11-17. In those games Hilton had:
4 - 7/67/0 vs. Jacksonville
5 - 5/88/0 @ Houston
11 - 2/21/0 @ Atlanta
12 - 6/95/2 vs. Tampa Bay
13 - 3/33/0 @ Pittsburgh
14 - 4/132/0 @ Jacksonville
15 - 3/29/0 vs. Houston
16 - 4/64/0 @ Miami
17 - 4/44/0 vs Tennessee
Hilton is not a Julio Jones or Dez Bryant type obviously. He's a different kind of WR. But he can take over a game and can pull coverage away from other receivers. At his best he's one of the best WRs in the league.