Nate Washington is what I would consider a lateral move, but better than no move. He is also not the fastest WR out there. It's like Fly said, bringing in what I call "Bottom of the Barrel scrapers" to perhaps the most elite offense in the NFL is not fathonable. It has been said BB is thinking years from now instead of moments with every deal. He has to have a plan "B".
Just so you know, I think you did a fine job of preparing a list as to who is left, and who we may be able to target. I myself started a thread earlier prior to the start of free agency looking at the possibilities. The problem has pretty much been since day one that no one here really cared for any of the prospects.
Let me end this by saying that The first WR after DA that BB went after was Donald Jones. Why? He could have waited until the heard was thinned out to get this guy. Wait a minute......He runs a 4.46 40 and a 41" vertical. He's about 6'1" and 214 lbs. He's only 25 years old. Are we looking past him?
That slow Jenkins (4.46 40????) caught 40 passes for the Vikings from their plethora of mediocre QBs.
When we look at Llyod's weaknesses in failing to beat man coverage, not having YACs etc, it's certainly possible to think that Belichick and some of the other coaches feel that Llyod's production can be equaled by other lesser named players. Jones could certainly be that guy, and Jenkins likely at least throws more competition into the mix for the bottom of the depth chart WR4 or WR5.
Ian put up some very telling numbers this morning regarding Llyod's failures here. Here are the stats when Brady targeted Llyod on downfield throws:
3 completions in 22 attempts to the left
5 completions in 14 attempts to the right
When you couple these numbers with Llyod's weaknesses that I already mentioned and realize that he had a measly 50% catch rate as it was, it really isn't out of the realm of possibility to think that there will be other players who can do what he did, or maybe even improve on it.
On top of that our WR3 and WR4 totally sucked last season, as Edelman had a total of 21 catches and Branch had a total of 16. So bringing in Jones/Jenkins/Edelman etc probably automatically improves upon the WR3 and WR4 depth for the wide receiving corps as a whole.
In my opinion all we have to do is draft a couple of WRs next weekend, and add another vet or camp/cap casualty and we have a lot of chance to improve upon the entire position as a whole. Others may disagree, but you have to look at those glaring numbers that show Llyod's weaknesses to judge fairly. As I've said before, maybe Llyod comes back and acts as the WR3?