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<blockquote data-quote="TromboneJacket" data-source="post: 796260" data-attributes="member: 2580"><p>RB definitely is a position that a freshman (or rookie at the NFL level) can excel at immediately based on talent. WR is a little trickier. The best of the best can dominate immediately, but I’ve noticed, especially at the NFL level, that often a young WR will start out as a special teams contributor and then in year 2 or 3 become a reliable offensive asset. Tyler Lockett is a good example of this. Any time you jump a level in competition, the players you’re facing are bigger, faster, stronger, smarter, and more polished than what you’re used to. Plus, a RB usually isn’t spending the entirety of a game competing with a player whose job is to basically be a mirror image of them. Imagine being a dominant WR in high school: you easily blow past attempts to jam you at the LOS because you’re stronger than the corner, you get open easily because you’re faster than the corner and can get him to bite on double moves and cuts, you tower over most defenders on jump-balls, and you rarely drop passes because most of the other players can’t hit you hard enough to jar you. Now you’re a freshman in college going up against corners who have no problem jamming you at the LOS, matching you step for step, and contesting your catches. To go back to winning, you’ll have to work on your hand fighting techniques, polish up your route running, improve your catch mechanics, and hit the weight room to get physically stronger. Doing all that takes time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TromboneJacket, post: 796260, member: 2580"] RB definitely is a position that a freshman (or rookie at the NFL level) can excel at immediately based on talent. WR is a little trickier. The best of the best can dominate immediately, but I’ve noticed, especially at the NFL level, that often a young WR will start out as a special teams contributor and then in year 2 or 3 become a reliable offensive asset. Tyler Lockett is a good example of this. Any time you jump a level in competition, the players you’re facing are bigger, faster, stronger, smarter, and more polished than what you’re used to. Plus, a RB usually isn’t spending the entirety of a game competing with a player whose job is to basically be a mirror image of them. Imagine being a dominant WR in high school: you easily blow past attempts to jam you at the LOS because you’re stronger than the corner, you get open easily because you’re faster than the corner and can get him to bite on double moves and cuts, you tower over most defenders on jump-balls, and you rarely drop passes because most of the other players can’t hit you hard enough to jar you. Now you’re a freshman in college going up against corners who have no problem jamming you at the LOS, matching you step for step, and contesting your catches. To go back to winning, you’ll have to work on your hand fighting techniques, polish up your route running, improve your catch mechanics, and hit the weight room to get physically stronger. Doing all that takes time. [/QUOTE]
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