The New England Patriots on Wednesday signed arguably the top wide receiver on the free-agent market, JuJu Smith-Schuster. But does the addition make the receiving corps any better than last year's?
Jakobi Meyers and JuJu Smith-Schuster have put up similar numbers over the last four years.
One area where Smith-Schuster has the clear advantage over Meyers is YAC . He had 6.1 YAC per reception last season and Meyers has never had more than 3.8 through his four NFL seasons. Our Tom E. Curran acknowledged Smith-Schuster is superior in that category, but noted that Meyers' strengths in other areas will be missed.
"You really have to get to the fine print to find where the players are different," Curran said." is a bigger player than Jakobi Meyers. He's a guy who catches the ball in shorter range but will also gain for you after the catch a significant amount more yards. Jakobi is not that because he runs about a 4.6. He's never going to be a great YAC guy.
has stressed, Jakobi Meyers was excellent at that. We'll find out how good JuJu Smith-Schuster is here.today about all of this and a number of other things, and he said, 'I wonder how good JuJu was playing opposite Antonio Brown.
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