[d4cohn]

Losing our three most prolific receivers from last year, while having Costello sidelined with injury when he needed to be working with the new ones, seems to have prevented us from developing any kind of downfield threat.  We won't win many games unless that gets corrected--if only to loosen up defenses.

Given how young and still developing the freshmen on the OL are, the biggest thing we need is a vertical WR (obviously someone like JJAW, but even some with just pure speed like Michael Rector). Perhaps Michael Wilson can be that guy, but I don't think he is there yet. OSB seems best suited to run deep crossing routes that take a lot of time that we just don't have at the OL right now.

As such, there is no vertical guy to stretch the defense and prevent the defense from bearing down on our backfield.

[d4cohn]

Losing our three most prolific receivers from last year, while having Costello sidelined with injury when he needed to be working with the new ones, seems to have prevented us from developing any kind of downfield threat.  We won't win many games unless that gets corrected--if only to loosen up defenses.

Given how young and still developing the freshmen on the OL are, the biggest thing we need is a vertical WR (obviously someone like JJAW, but even some with just pure speed like Michael Rector). Perhaps Michael Wilson can be that guy, but I don't think he is there yet. OSB seems best suited to run deep crossing routes that take a lot of time that we just don't have at the OL right now.

As such, there is no vertical guy to stretch the defense and prevent the defense from bearing down on our backfield.