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Originally Posted by Pez
I for one did not realize how fragile our receiving corps was. Two people and were suddenly losing to the raiders, in a game that wasnt as close as the score would indicate.
Take away Hilton for injury, take away Ebron for having a bad game and you are down to:
Rookie Paris Campbell
Rookie* Deion Cain
3rd year guy Chester Rogers
2 year guy Zach Pascal
Ashton Dulin (activated 2 days ago) |
I think if you take away the WR1 and WR2 of most team's receiving corps, it would be a similar dropoff.
Ballard and Reich tried to thread the needle here - keeping guys that had upside as well as less talented guys that had some game experience.
When Inman left to sign elsewhere - no one cared because the Colts had Cain and Campbell. Sure Cain and Campbell have more upside vs Inman, but they are young and there are going to be growing pains. Cain is coming off a torn ACL - he obviously put in a lot of work to be back for this season, however, I doubt he will regain his full speed until next year - similar to Malik Hooker. Before Malik went down this year, he looked really good - that he had regained his "top gear." I expect Cain will be a step slow this year and may have trouble with separation all season.