WR's Dropped passes the last 4 years

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I came across this the other day and the VQ guys were discussing our WR's and breaking down Hendon, Milton and Nico's dropped pass percentage the last 4 years.Somewhat disturbing, hopefully they don't keep going in this direction.

So, basically this is the dropped percentage each QB has had with their on target passes the last 4 years.

In '21 and '22, Hendon had 9.1% of his on target passes dropped each season.

In '23, Milton had 10% of his on target passes dropped..

Now to Nico and this is alarming. In '24, Nico had 15.8% of his on target passes dropped. Between the subpar pass blocking and this % of dropped passes, it was honestly pretty impressive that he put up the stats he did. Obviously, he has room to grow, but we all knew that with him only having started 14 games and not even old enough to drink. Hopefully, his pass blocking is better and that drop % goes down. If it does, I look for him to have a really good year and get closer to living up to his expectations.

Not sure if it's the WR's just not being that good or if it was coaching( or lack of it). Brazzell was the team leader in dropped passes and was #3 in the SEC in passes dropped this past year. Squirrel was tied with the most drops in the SEC the year before.

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Hard to catch a ball when you don’t know where it will be. All you have to do is watch the start of that UTEP game to know that Nico is a long way from where he should be. Other elements could and should be better, but it starts with him.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Hard to catch a ball when you don’t know where it will be. All you have to do is watch the start of that UTEP game to know that Nico is a long way from where he should be.
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So is Nico throwing to the wrong window or just not where they are supposed to be ? Also I don't give af we all played back yard football with no routes assigned. If the ball touches your damn hands catch it..... one of the most basic concepts in all of football. You know the word drops? It means they freaking dropped it. I know when a football touches my fingers they should too
 
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BigALWiLson said:
So is Nico throwing to the wrong window or just not where they are supposed to be ? Also I don't give af we all played back yard football with no routes assigned. If the ball touches your damn hands catch it..... one of the most basic concepts in all of football. You know the word drops? It means they freaking dropped it. I know when a football touches my fingers they should too
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Please don’t ever bring up your backyard football credentials again. I promise that catching a 30 mph meatball from your buddy in 7th grade isn’t the same as college football.

All I know is that 3 of his 4 receivers all played much better with a different quarterback before Nico. That’s gotta mean something.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Please don’t ever bring up your backyard football credentials again. I promise that catching a 30 mph meatball from your buddy in 7th grade isn’t the same as college football.

All I know is that 3 of his 4 receivers all played much better with a different quarterback before Nico. That’s gotta mean something.
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Well he wasn’t getting paid a million bucks to catch a football in the backyard.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Please don’t ever bring up your backyard football credentials again. I promise that catching a 30 mph meatball from your buddy in 7th grade isn’t the same as college football.

All I know is that 3 of his 4 receivers all played much better with a different quarterback before Nico. That’s gotta mean something.
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Well yeah it is more difficult. As it should be. However I am not an NFL hopeful. These guys should be able to catch a ***** football no matter who is throwing the damn thing. There are far worse QB's in the country than NICO. They have one common goal called catching the football. Yes I agree Nico needs improvement and he missed on some passes. The WR's have to do their part also by not dropping the ball
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Please don’t ever bring up your backyard football credentials again. I promise that catching a 30 mph meatball from your buddy in 7th grade isn’t the same as college football.

All I know is that 3 of his 4 receivers all played much better with a different quarterback before Nico. That’s gotta mean something.
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By the way all those same guys dropped passes before Nico. First Joe was the issue now Nico.
 
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BigALWiLson said:
Which would suggest he was at least average. What does that say if Squirrel Bru Thorton etc don't make a roster ?
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Peterman is statistically the worst QB in NFL history. Also looked like the worst QB in Tennessee history. I’d hardly call him average. Jason White won a Heisman and never played a snap in the NFL.

I think you just have a very simple way of looking at things.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Peterman is statistically the worst QB in NFL history. Also looked like the worst QB in Tennessee history. I’d hardly call him average. Jason White won a Heisman and never played a snap in the NFL.

I think you just have a very simple way of looking at things.
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I think some got paid to play football and others did not. That is the ultimate goal for most those guys wouldn't you agree ?
 
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BigALWiLson said:
I think some got paid to play football and others did not. That is the ultimate goal for most those guys wouldn't you agree ?
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Sure. But if Joe Milton weren’t built like a Greek God with a rocket arm, he wouldn’t even have played college ball. The Pats took a chance on him for his physical attributes, not because of how well he played the game of football in college. A guy like Squirrel would have needed elite production in college due to his physical attributes.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Sure. But if Joe Milton weren’t built like a Greek God with a rocket arm, he wouldn’t even have played college ball. The Pats took a chance on him for his physical attributes, not because of how well he played the game of football in college. A guy like Squirrel would have needed elite production in college due to his physical attributes.
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True however that's part of the game though. I am also sure Jason White would have got a chance had he not blown acl's in both knees in college. Just like Bru imo. I hope he gets a shot. However a one legged Bru this year was not able to show what he is capable of. I also don't think the rest of his supporting cast was all that good. I would say Nico needs to improve that's fair. But the WR room was a disappointment in totality
 
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Legion of the miserable posting his usual BS trash. Dude thinks he knows about football. He thinks we should just overlook the many great passes thrown by Joe and Nico that were flat out dropped. Oh he brings up Bru? Bru doesn’t look anywhere close to what he did in his first year. I guess his injury had nothing to do with it 🙄. Let’s just ignore the almost 10 TD passes in 2023 that were dropped. Oh but Joe. lol. The WRs practice on machines that throw it harder than Joe did.

Yeah obviously all these drops were on Nico. I mean what most of us witness was fake. We didn’t see the WRs dropping passes. We’re all of the perfect? Nope. But many hit them in the hands and were dropped. At the college level, you should catch something that hits you in the hands. Yeah let’s ignore multiple sports broadcasters and analysts that said our WRs were not very good. We should just all take legions of the miserable child’s word. He is almost in D4H level idiocy.
 
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Squirrel’s issue is he never catches the ball with his hands. Always catches it with his arms, which reduces his already small catching radius. Maybe the shoulder injury prevented him from doing that but I recall him doing that his entire career and was never really a great receiving option. Bru was never the same after the injury. Always a step too slow and couldn’t create separation. Thornton was the best receiver on the team but was always nicked up. The receivers just weren’t good enough, plain and simple. A complete change in that room is what was needed, just like the secondary last offseason.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Legion of the miserable posting his usual BS trash. Dude thinks he knows about football. He thinks we should just overlook the many great passes thrown by Joe and Nico that were flat out dropped. Oh he brings up Bru? Bru doesn’t look anywhere close to what he did in his first year. I guess his injury had nothing to do with it 🙄. Let’s just ignore the almost 10 TD passes in 2023 that were dropped. Oh but Joe. lol. The WRs practice on machines that throw it harder than Joe did.

Yeah obviously all these drops were on Nico. I mean what most of us witness was fake. We didn’t see the WRs dropping passes. We’re all of the perfect? Nope. But many hit them in the hands and were dropped. At the college level, you should catch something that hits you in the hands. Yeah let’s ignore multiple sports broadcasters and analysts that said our WRs were not very good. We should just all take legions of the miserable child’s word. He is almost in D4H level idiocy.
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Coaches will tell you, if it hits you in the hands then that’s a catchable ball. The only exception made sometimes is when a guy is laying out full extension, which creates a more difficult catch. Most experts will tell you dropped passes are primarily on the receiver. Even if you say roughly 30% of the drops can be attributed to the QB, Nico still had a worse receiving corps to work with than most contending teams. 30% of 15.8% = 4.74%, so if it’s a 30/70 split in blame then Nico still had to deal with an 11% drop rate.
 
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