Only two returning
wideouts caught more than 10 passes last year — Kamathi Holsey and Jamarl Eiland — and they combined for a dreadful 40 percent catch rate while averaging just 9.8 yards per catch.
Three other returning
wideouts caught at least 15 passes, so the cupboard is in no way bare.
Three other returning
wideouts caught at least five passes, and all three are former four - star recruits.
Stanford's top
wideout caught five passes for 160 yards, and ran twice for an additional 31.
Not exact matches
Yet it would be hard to fault Cowboys fans for wanting reassurance that the principles that produced last fall's eye - popping numbers — 44.2 points per game, Weeden's 4,277 passing yards,
wideout Justin Blackmon's 20 TD
catches — would remain intact.
The leading returning
wideout had six
catches.
Though he made just one
catch against Illinois, Washington frequently lined up as a
wideout; Missouri coaches believe their running back will emerge as one of Daniel's favorite targets this season.
Three other Spartans (tight end Josiah Price and
wideouts DeAnthony Arnett and Macgarrett Kings)
caught passes for 20 - plus yards as well.
With about six minutes left in the first quarter of a scoreless game, a
catch by Washington Redskins
wideout Art Monk in the back of the end zone was ruled a touchdown by the game officials.
He's going to probably need to pick up that pace at the beginning of 2018, too, because of the four
wideouts to
catch at last 25 passes in Petersen's offense, he's the only returnee.
Barker, a junior walk - on, broke through this season to become the team's No. 1
wideout,
catching 30 passes for 577 yards and seven touchdowns.
VandeBerg, 2015's leading receiver, is the only returning
wideout who
caught a single ball last year, and he broke his foot last year, then re-injured it this spring.
Zach Pascal: The Old Dominion junior
wideout hauled in an eye -
catching 231 yards and three scores on 11
catches in Saturday's win over Charlotte.
Tight end Blake Bell got involved against Tennessee,
catching three passes for 52 yards, but for the most part OU's passing game has consisted of the three
wideouts above.
Wideouts Stephen Louis, Bra'Lon Cherry, Kelvin Harmon, and Maurice Trowell did
catch a combined 101 balls for 1,723 yards (17.1 per
catch).
He can
catch the short passes and take them the distance, he can stretch the field with the deep ball, there might not be anybody better at going up to
catch a jump ball and, unlike some top
wideouts, he blocks his ass off in the run game.
That double coverage freed up tight end Eric Bjornson (five
catches, 49 yards, two drops) and neophyte
wideout Deion Sanders, who set up the game - clinching touchdown late in the fourth quarter by
catching a 10 - yard slant pass on third - and - nine from the Cardinals» 23.
The Bucs crowded the line to stop Portis, trusting their excellent secondary to keep Pro Bowl
wideout Santana Moss (two
catches, 18 yards) in check.
And the Steelers corners were notorious for beating up on opposing
wideouts, most famously the Cowboys» receivers in Super Bowl X (and Drew Pearson still got 59 yards on two
catches, the SOB!).
Of course, returning junior
wideouts Deon Cain, Hunter Renfrow, and Ray - Ray McCloud combined for 131
catches and 1,691 yards themselves; when you play 15 games and spread the ball around a lot, plenty of targets rack up reps. None of the returning targets are taller than 6» 1, so if a bigger, younger, four - star
wideout like sophomore Diondre Overton or freshman Tee Higgins has a nice fall camp, there might be a role available.
Eddie Brown, the most feared
wideout in football the first half of the season, was invisible during the playoffs; he made one
catch for 23 yards.
Only one returning
wideout (sophomore slot D'Wayne Eskridge)
caught more than 10 passes last year.
Against the Hawkeyes, Carter rushed for only 89 yards, Kerry Collins passed for just 98, and junior
wideout Bobby Engram
caught only two passes.
Chicago concentrated on containing Minnesota
wideouts Randy Moss and Cris Carter, and succeeded in holding them to a combined six
catches for 115 yards and no touchdowns.
Butt was Rudock's third - down man of choice, and while opponents will
catch on to that, Amara Darboh's first outing as Michigan's undisputed No. 1
wideout went well, too.
The rest of State's
wideouts: 12.6 per
catch, 7.2 per target.
They would have been the last - minute, fourth - down
catch by Patriots
wideout Shawn Jefferson that was actually out - of - bounds and the fourth - down scoring run by the Jets» Vinny Testaverde, who really didn't cross the goal line.
The Lions
wideout was injured calling fair
catch on a punt.
Detroit also signed two players at the top of its free - agent wish list — tight end Stephen Alexander, a strong blocker from the Chargers, and guard - center Damien Woody, who started on two Super Bowl winners with the Patriots — plus
wideout Tai Streets, who
caught 119 passes opposite Terrell Owens with the 49ers over the last two seasons.
The Rams» Torry Holt
caught more passes (117) than Detroit's top three
wideouts combined (107).
That's in part because he had more than twice the targets of any other ISU
wideout, but mostly because he converted nearly 60 percent of those passes, many of them contested, into
catches.
Waters benefited from a career night for
wideout Curry Sexton (15 targets, 11
catches, 121 yards) but still averaged just 5.4 yards per pass attempt.
Moon's primary target will be
wideout Tim Smith, who had the quietest 83 -
catch season in history last year.
Wideout Cam Phillips
caught 76 balls and averaged 10.1 yards per target with a 59 percent success rate.
Davis and Westbrook, a
wideout who
caught five passes for 53 yards on Sunday, have repaired their relationship, though others won't let the memory fade.
He and Moore's No. 3 target, junior Thomas Geddis, are both back, but the next leading
wideout on the returnees list, junior Jerron Rollins,
caught just 13 balls for 101 yards last year.
Chark
caught 26 of 43 passes for 466 yards and three scores; unlike Dupre or Dural, he was targeted mostly on passing downs, but he still led Tiger
wideouts with 10.8 yards per target.
Wideout Amara Darboh is Michigan's leading receiver with 17
catches for 248 yards (14.6 YPC) and four touchdowns.
Although
catches, yards and touchdowns are the most important items on a
wideouts Hall of Fame résumé, shouldn't a receiver's performance on running plays also be part of the equation?