Player Review: Reggie Wayne

by shake n bake on Jan 15, 2009 4:22 PM EST

Reggie Wayne's catches declined from the previous year for the first time in his 8 year career. His yardage dropped for the 2nd time (though it's hard to top leading the league with 1,510 yards).

Games	Catches	Yards	YPR	TDs	DVOA	DYAR	Catch %
16	82	1145	14.0	6	329 (6th)	19.2 (9th)	63%

Wayne picked up where he left off last season as the Colts clear #1 WR and one of the leagues elite WR.

via media.wsbt.com

Contract Info: Signed through 2011 Cap Charges: 7.4mil, 8.0mil, 6.0mil

Wayne is in his prime and is signed long term at an affordable rate for a top WR. Not much to discuss other than whether he's a top 10 or top 5 WR in the league.

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Definitely Top 10

Possibly even top 5

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on Jan 15, 2009 4:26 PM EST reply actions

He's in my top 2 :-)

by LovinBlue on Jan 15, 2009 4:50 PM EST reply actions

Definitely top 10

At that level it’s so hard to say someone is “better” than someone else. Let me just go off the top of my head.

Larry Fitzgerald
Anquan Boldin
Andre Johnson
Randy Moss
Reggie Wayne
Wes Welker
Steve Smith
Calvin Johnson
Greg Jennings
Terrell Owens

Can you really rank these guys 1-10 in a fair way? They’re all fantastic, the best of the best of the best.

by slash196 on Jan 15, 2009 6:18 PM EST reply actions

A couple others

Houshmandzadeh
Plaxico Burress (stupidity notwithstanding)

by mgrex03 on Jan 15, 2009 6:32 PM EST up reply actions

Another

Marshall’s gotta be in the conversation; I wouldn’t be surprised if next year he made the leap that everybody expected this year (not that his season was bad, mind you).

by ctnyc on Jan 15, 2009 6:54 PM EST up reply actions

Now that Roddy White has a real QB he's way up there

and since last years playoffs Vincent Jackson has been great.

Owens wasn’t that good this year. He had worse hands than usual. He didn’t even catch half the passes thrown to him this year (49%).

I still haven’t figured out what to think about Welker, he’s practically playing a different position from the rest of the list. He takes long handoffs. The average catch by Welker gained 10.5 yards, 6.8 yards of it YAC. So the average depth he caught the ball at?

3.7 yards.

Compare that to Andre Johnson 13.7 YPC, 4.3 aveYAC, average catch depth: 9.4 yards.

or even compared to a slot type guy, Dallas Clark 11.0 YPC, 4.9 aveYAC, ave catch: 6.1 yards downfield.

Shonn Greene for Heisman
Doak Walker award winner
144 yards per game
6.2 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Jan 15, 2009 6:32 PM EST up reply actions

Fitzgerald is the best WR in the league

And I don’t think it is too close. Good job Raiders! Robert Gallery has been a good pick so far!

by Colts Homer on Jan 15, 2009 8:44 PM EST reply actions

it's not like they went out on a limb with the pick

everyone was raving about him being a franchise tackle and the safest pick in the draft.

Shonn Greene for Heisman
Doak Walker award winner
144 yards per game
6.2 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Jan 15, 2009 8:47 PM EST up reply actions

I was going to get to this

You’re right, Fitz is the best in the league, but Megatron is pretty close and if he wasn’t on Detroit, I’d actually probably say it’d be him. He’s a freak, he looks like some fantasy guy I’d make in Madden. My list would probably go something like:

1. Larry Fitzgerald
2. Calvin Johnson
3. Steve Smith
4. Andre Johnson
5. Reggie Wayne
6. Randy Moss
7. Anquan Boldin
8. Brandon Marshall
9. Greg Jennings
10. And I’m putting Marvin here because of the down year. Call it a homer pick, but there’s about 5 guys that are debatable at this spot so screw you!

by monstersbox on Jan 15, 2009 9:24 PM EST up reply actions