List:. 11 Rookie WRs Who Had 500 Yds or More This Year

primetime said:

McLaurin was his team's number 1 target and played a full season. Fant had 40 receptions and exceeded 40 yards in all of four games, and a large number of drops and penalties.

Even the worst team in the league will have over three hundred completions and someone needs to catch those. Anyone the Patriots brought in was going to be the third option behind Edelman and White. Other than in the Moss/Welker years, when has the Patriots second receiver (Amendola, LaFell, Hogan, etc) put up huge numbers? Harry showed enough that I don't think anyone can call him "disappointing" with a straight face.

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I was disappointed with his performance. I am not calling him a bust but I would like to see a dramatic second year leap.

I didn’t see any flashes of being a #1 WR which is what really disappointed.

Harry is going to need to learn to use his body more at this level. Lean into his man as he’s about to cut, use his hands more, etc. We cannot call him a bust right now and I think that the frustration is really coming from the fact that the offense had to rely on him as heavily as it did. Two straight years of throwing some absolute **** at the wall to see what sticks and then having to rely on guys like Gordon and Brown when, shockingly, nothing sticks has made some of the expectations on Harry in his rookie year incredibly unfair. Brady tried to tell people this. Harry can be developed into a nice possession receiver and his ceiling would be comparable to Boldin. But he still needs time and he didn’t get a lot of that this year.

IllegalContact said:

Harry would be one of them if he was playing somewhere else

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Yes vs high school cornerbacks.

KontradictioN said:

Harry is going to need to learn to use his body more at this level. Lean into his man as he’s about to cut, use his hands more, etc. We cannot call him a bust right now and I think that the frustration is really coming from the fact that the offense had to rely on him as heavily as it did. Two straight years of throwing some absolute **** at the wall to see what sticks and then having to rely on guys like Gordon and Brown when, shockingly, nothing sticks has made some of the expectations on Harry in his rookie year incredibly unfair. Brady tried to tell people this. Harry can be developed into a nice possession receiver and his ceiling would be comparable to Boldin. But he still needs time and he didn’t get a lot of that this year.

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I completely agree. He doesn’t look comfortable with the physicality of NFL corners yet. That pick against Houston he got tugged at the top of his route then seemed to give up and got bodied by the corner for an INT.

Nunchucks said:

I don't understand the need for posters to hate on Harry so much.

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Hell of a blocker

Wiluven said:

There were other ways to utilize him, as they found out in the last couple of weeks. Harry was a playmaker in college who had two 1000 yards with 75+ catches. Yes the Pats system is complicated and yes he was out 8 weeks but surely the best offensive coordinator in the league could have drawn some plays up and let a playmaker make plays.

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That's assuming opposing defenses also would let "the playmaker make plays" after realizing in about 3 seconds he isn't running timed option routes. McDaniels has stuff installed for him -- sideline back-shoulder, end zone fades, inside slants, etc. but it's limited and defenders know what to expect from him.

All i have to say about Harry is that I'm waiting until next year to label him something.

If label him this year, won't be pretty and it might not be fair

Mecole Hardman would be a starter on another team. 2nd round pick who has shown flashes of being a Stud in the NFL. You watch him play and its like Wow.

Harry hasnt shown anything. The Pats have to scheme plays to get him involved. I dont see anything special or great about Harry and he reminds me of David Boston who was another WR who never lived up to all the hype. Big, strong and slow.

Harry will be a bust. Just watch.

Triumph said:

Mecole Hardman would be a starter on another team. 2nd round pick who has shown flashes of being a Stud in the NFL. You watch him play and its like Wow.

Harry hasnt shown anything. The Pats have to scheme plays to get him involved. I dont see anything special or great about Harry and he reminds me of David Boston who was another WR who never lived up to all the hype. Big, strong and slow.

Harry will be a bust. Just watch.

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Yeah, this team didn’t need another big, lumbering type. There were home run threats available to them at that point that played in either similar or better conferences. This team badly needed someone who can threaten the intermediate and deep levels of the field and Harry just hasn’t proven he can do that yet. That makes their decision to grab Sanu, another big and lumbering type, over Sanders questionable as well.

KontradictioN said:

Yeah, this team didn’t need another big, lumbering type. There were home run threats available to them at that point that played in either similar or better conferences. This team badly needed someone who can threaten the intermediate and deep levels of the field and Harry just hasn’t proven he can do that yet. That makes their decision to grab Sanu, another big and lumbering type, over Sanders questionable as well.

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Defenses are bracketing the NE WRs and playing close to the LOS because everyone knows that Brady wants to launch the ball away in a few seconds. When he is forced to hold the ball, it throws timing all off. Ive never seen Brady hold the ball as much as this season. I dont have a count, but it seems like Brady has thrown into a lot of double and triple coverage this season too. Like the throw at the end of yesterdays game to Harry in double coverage.

Mecole Hardman would have been perfect draft pick as a fast get open guy like Edelman with speed after the catch.

If Edelman has an unreal game, the Pats offense can make enough plays to win assuming the score stays close.

Triumph said:

Defenses are bracketing the NE WRs and playing close to the LOS because everyone knows that Brady wants to launch the ball away in a few seconds. When he is forced to hold the ball, it throws timing all off. Ive never seen Brady hold the ball as much as this season. I dont have a count, but it seems like Brady has thrown into a lot of double and triple coverage this season too. Like the throw at the end of yesterdays game to Harry in double coverage.

Mecole Hardman would have been perfect draft pick as a fast get open guy like Edelman with speed after the catch.

If Edelman has an unreal game, the Pats offense can make enough plays to win assuming the score stays close.

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I liked Hardman, but his route running is not precise. It may be over time, but not right now. Brown would have been the much better fit and his route running is better than Hardman’s at this point.

KontradictioN said:

I liked Hardman, but his route running is not precise. It may be over time, but not right now. Brown would have been the much better fit and his route running is better than Hardman’s at this point.

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I like AJ Brown too.

Brady6 said:

He only caught the ball 50% of the time it was thrown his way.

At the end of the day there is nobody on this forum who could say that Harry met the expectations they had on draft day when the selection was made. Anyone who says he did is lying point blank period.

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On 24 throws. 24.

You see the play at the sideline yesterday? That was on Brady. No one catches that. Take out that one play, and his catch % goes to 54% - and there were more than that one play.

Brady completed 60.8% this year.

I was shocked they didn't take Deebo or AJ Brown, or grab Hardman later in the draft. Harry wasn't my pick - hadn't heard a peep about him until right near draft day - but I'm not going to crap all over a rookie who had no OTA with the QB in a complicated, "same-page" system, missed most of camp, and was a convenience IR when the Pats elt that they had a wealth of receivers.

I don't believe for a minute that those other "breakout" rookies would have done so here - with the possible exception of Deebo Samuel, who actually FITS what the Patriots and Brady do (and who openly said he wanted to play here).

I mean, Damian Harris is a bust? He got 3 effing plays all year (which is also what James White got his rookie year - was he a bust, too?). Players have to actually play to get up to NFL speed and improve, and is a rookie drops a pass, then is ignored for the rest of the game, well...

This team has not been kind to rookies for years now, with the exception of three positions: DL, OL, and DB.

Look, they've been successful with their strategy, so I'm only stating facts, not judgment here. That said, my eyes tell me that it's the end of the run, so a lot of these philosophies are going to have to change for a rebuild. If Saturday is Brady's last game as a Pat, are you going to be surprised?

I'm not. Watching him this year was not a pleasant experience with only a couple of exceptions.

Deebo Samuel would have looked nice in a Pats uniform this year. Thought he was a perfect fit and a replacement for Edelman in a couple years. I like Harry and can see why they made the pick. He's a big strong downfield receiver. But it is disappointing that he just does not seem to get separation off the line. Compare to Metcalf last night for Seattle.

FCB02062 said:

So do the Harry excuse markers want to say he's good for 70 catches and 900 yards next season? Not unreasonable for a first round pick in his second year...

And mind you if Harry misses similar time again next season he's a certified bust

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Who is actually good on this team according to you ? Can you list any ? Or all 53 suck ?Because thats all you do. X sucks, Y siucks, Z better be good next yr else he sucks. Have you ever had a perspective of a team or players after watching this team over 20 yrs ?

Check gronk's stats in the first 6 games
Rob Gronkowski: Game Logs at NFL.com

I am sure he was a bust.

Not saying harry is as good but killing the kid after less than half a season when we had Oline problems,brady injury and a multitude of issues related to consistency is just short sighted.

Miles Sanders broke 500+ rec yest I believe.

50-yard-line said:

He can't catch what ain't thrown his way...

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...and half the time he can't catch what is...

Brady6 said:

I would be likely to agree with you if he improved over the course of the games he played but that didn’t really happen.

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Unfortunately he played with a qb who either has a lack of willingness or ability (in his current state) to use him. The fade throw Harry caught out of bounds was terrible. The bomb at the end of the game didn't give Harry a chance. Throw it inside and let him go up for it. That is how Harry succeeded in college. How many of those chances did Brady give Harry this season?

The problem for the receivers in this offense is Brady has (either due to injury, lack of time early in the year or current lack of ability) chosen to force the ball into his tightly covered old reliables vs. trusting his other options.