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• Nfl Team Defense Vs Slot Receivers

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The Miami Dolphins’ wide receiver room is one of the team’s more well established positions. Miami has plenty of size in the group, a fair amount of depth with the likes of Allen Hurns, Albert Wilson, Isaiah Ford and others on the roster and the group finally saw the big breakout the team was hoping for from DeVante Parker.

Nfl Teams Slot Receivers Odds

2020 NFL Team Defense Statistics. The following are the 2020 NFL team overall defense statistics, including team rushing yardage, team passing yardage and total team yardage. Figures indicate statistics each team allowed to their opponents. Crowder’s ability in the slot made him even more valuable, though, and his production ranked among the best in the NFL at the receiver position. Adam Gase used Crowder the best of the Jets. In fact, entering his 17th NFL season, he is still one of the league’s very best in the slot. Touchdown Wire’s Doug Farrar ranked the top 11 slot receivers in the NFL and he still comes in.

But Albert Wilson’s status with Miami is up in the air thanks to a sizable cap hit in 2020 and an underwhelming 2019 season. As this Dolphins team looks to remodel to offense to fit offensive coordinator Chan Gailey’s ideals, this team may be looking to find a new starter in the slot.

Who are some of the prime candidates?

Dolphins’ Jakeem Grant

Cost: Nothing

Let’s start with the good: Grant is an explosive athlete, a good route runner and a natural playmaker. The bad? He’s failed to finish the last two seasons with durability concerns and needs limited touches to protect him from breaking down over the course of 16 games.

Grant is a logical choice because he’s on the roster and was recently given an extension. But entrusting him with a primary role is risky business.

Free agent Rashard Higgins

Cost: Short-term “prove it” deal

Higgins found success in 2018 with the Browns before being pushed to the fringes of the team in 2019 — he logged nearly 600 receiving yards in 2018. Higgins’ route running skills are a viable asset and, if he’s left in the slot, he should routinely find separation. The concern here? There’s not a lot of long speed and Miami’s slot will ideally have explosive qualities.

Florida’ Van Jefferson

Cost: 56th/70th pick in the 2020 NFL Draft

Jefferson catches the ball really well in traffic, which will make him an asset in Miami’s horizontal spread attack under Gailey. With a heavy down hill run presence, the Dolphins stand to flourish from putting LBs in a bind and taking advantage of spacing issues to hit the defense over the middle. Jefferson frequently ate as a middle of the field receiver with the Gators and showed off some impressive route running at January’s Senior Bowl.

Arizona State’s Brandon Aiyuk

Cost: 56th pick in the 2020 NFL Draft

Aiyuk thrived at Arizona State as a tunnel screen and in traffic receiver — he’s got a large catch radius, explosive qualities and the ability to force a missed tackle and make house calls in the quick game. He feels like a strong fit for what Miami is looking to do and if the Dolphins feel an early investment is necessary to upgrade the slot, he’s a name that would add another dynamic to the receiver group with his twitchiness.

Dolphins’ Albert Wilson

Cost: Over $10.5M in cap in 2020

If the Dolphins choose to stand pat, they’ll eat eight figures in cap space, $9.5M of which is easily avoidable by cutting Wilson. But if Miami feels Wilson has a reasonable chance of returning to form and getting the quickness back that he lost after a 2018 hip injury, they have the cap space to eat the money.

Real talent at the wide receiver position has taken a major hit around the NFL. Some of this could have to do with college teams failing to develop pass catchers.

Others believe that a pass-happy NFL has led to teams relying on more receivers. Hence, the influx of starting slot receivers.

Whatever the reason, many teams head into the 2019 season lacking at this position. It’s in this that we look at the 10 worst starting receivers in the NFL right now.

Zay Jones, Buffalo Bills

Jones might have improved as a sophomore last season, but he has a whole heck of a lot more to go in that category before being considered a starter-caliber receiver. The former second-round pick has caught 47.2 percent of his targets in two seasons and is averaging 5.5 yards per target throughout his career. For comparison’s sake, New York Giants stud youngster Saquon Barkley averaged 5.8 yards per touch as a rookie. He’s a running back. Think about that for a quick second.

John Ross, Cincinnati Bengals

This one is pretty much on the Bengals. Cincinnati listed Ross as its starting slot receiver in the team’s initial depth chart. For what reason, exactly? A top-10 pick back in 2017, Ross has caught all of 21 passes in two seasons. He didn’t even record a single reception as a rookie. Better yet, Ross boasts a career 35 percent catch rate. Some figured Cincinnati might look to move on from Ross this past offseason. Instead, the team might rely on the injury-plagued workout warrior to make an impact under first-year head coach Zac Taylor.

Trey Quinn, Washington Redskins

We’re not going to blame this second-year receiver for Washington having him listed as its starting slot receiver. The issue here, as it has been over the past several years in D.C., is depth. Quinn caught nine passes in three games of action as a rookie last season. Sure he has the look of a pretty solid slot guy dating back to the youngster’s SMU days, but this is not the AAC. We’re going to have to see a whole bunch more from Quinn to even consider him a starter-caliber receiver. That’s only magnified by the perpetual quarterback mess in the nation’s capital.

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Hunter Renfrow, Oakland Raiders

Much like other young receivers in this list, it’s not Renfrow’s fault that he’s being catapulted to the top of the depth chart. The former Clemson standout is currently listed as Oakland’s top slot guy behind recent acquisitions Antonio Brown and Tyrell Williams. Depending on Brown’s injury, he could even jump up a notch on Derek Carr’s target list as a rookie. The bad news for Oakland? Renfrow never put up more than 602 yards in what seemed like a decade at Clemson. He lacks athleticism. His upside is limited. They are asking too much from him.

Kevin White, Arizona Cardinals

Sadly, White’s NFL career has been derailed by injury after injury. The former Chicago Bears top-seven pick has played in a grand total of 14 games in four NFL seasons. Fourteen games! He’s caught 25 passes and boasts a 52.1 percent catch rate during that span. Given how stellar White was during his college days at West Virginia, this represents a harrowing tail. It also doesn’t make him any better or more reliable as a receiver for first-year Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray.

Taywan Taylor, Tennessee Titans

Is Taylor terrible? Well, that depends heavily on whether you overrate Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota. Let’s say for a second that Mariota is a viable NFL quarterback, what does that say about Taylor? The former third-round pick has caught 53 passes in two NFL seasons. He’s also averaging one touchdown per 42 targets. To contrast for a second, fellow second-year Titans receiver Corey Davis is averaging one score per 44 targets. The moral of the story? Things are not great in Nashville. Taylor deserves some of the blame because of his lackluster overall numbers elsewhere. After all, there’s a reason Tennessee exhausted a second-round pick on A.J. Brown in April. It’s not to take Davis’ spot.

Donte Moncrief, Pittsburgh Steelers

Let’s paint a picture here. The Jacksonville Jaguars signed Moncrief to a one-year, $9.6 million deal prior to the 2018 season. Despite his obvious physical traits (6-foot-2 and 216 pounds), Moncrief had put up a combined 698 yards with a 54.4 percent catch rate in his final two seasons with Indianapolis. Moncrief responded by posting a top-10 drop rate and catching 53.9 percent of his targets last season. The Steelers are now relying on him to replace Antonio Brown behind all-world receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster. Good luck with that given Pittsburgh starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger tied for the NFL lead in interceptions last season.

Marquise Goodwin, San Francisco 49ers

Goodwin impressed big time in his first season with the 49ers after an injury-plagued four years in Buffalo. He caught 56 passes for 962 yards while averaging 17.2 yards per reception. Unfortunately, the injuries and lack of production that plagued him in Western New York came back to haunt Goodwin last season. He tallied just 23 catches and hauled in 55 percent of his targets. Still listed as a starter on the 49ers’ depth chart, there’s an outside chance Goodwin doesn’t even break camp with the team. That’s a mighty big fall from grace for the world-class athlete.

Devin Funchess, Indianapolis Colts

Indianapolis surprised a lot of people by handing Funchess a one-year, $10 million contract in free agency. The former Carolina Panthers second-round pick hauled in just 44 passes for 549 yards while boasting a mediocre 55.7 percent catch rate last season. He was also pretty much benched for the final quarter of the campaign. An inability to get open and create space has plagued Funchess throughout his career. We’re not expecting this to magically change with Indy in 2019.

DeVante Parker, Miami Dolphins

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Simply put, Parker has failed to live up to the expectations that came with being a top-14 pick back in 2015. Injuries and inconsistency has dogged him at pretty much every turn. Parker missed five games to injury last season, bringing in just 24-of-47 targets for a lackluster 51.1 percent catch rate. While Parker is still listed as one of Miami’s starters, it would not be a surprise to see Allen Hurns or impressive rookie Preston Williams surpass him on the depth chart earlier in the 2019 season.