How many times are people going to try to run a young receiver out of town because he’s not Jerry Rice right out of the gate?
And by the way, Jerry Rice wasn’t Jerry Rice right out of the gate.
It just seems there is a long history of people around here making young receivers piñatas when they struggle early.
Some guys never recovered from the early evisceration in the count of public opinion.
I won’t even go over the names because they’ve been through enough.
But the latest young receiver now getting raked over the coals way too early is Malachi Corley.
If you Google Corley, you will get links to a slew of stories questioning him after just one season.
Internet Headline – “Jets may cut ties with high draft pick after just 1 season.”
He needed a lot of work coming in from a low-level Division 1 football program (Western Kentucky) where he ran a simple route-tree and much more rudimentary playbook than you see on the NFL level.
Aside from working on his route-running and getting the playbook down, and Aaron Rodgers generally not trusting young rookie receivers, the Jets also took it slow with Corley because they had plenty of good receivers in front of him, so there was no need to rush him.
So, can we knock it off with the Corley on the hot-seat nonsense?
The idea that you can assess a receiver prospect, from a low-level program, making a big jump to the NFL, after one year, is preposterous.
This isn’t fantasy football.
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