Jood rates UW's 2014 WR unit outlook as a "A-"

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http://blogs.seattletimes.com/husky...shington-huskies-2014-outlook-wide-receivers/

If Ross and Taylor both move to defense as expected (to help shore up an also dangerously thin secondary), that leaves UW with only 4 returning scholarship WRs in 2014. One of whom is returning (one hopes) from a catastrophic Lisfranc injury. Another of whom is Marvin fucking Hall.

I don't want to sound too alarmist. If Williams returns healthy, UW might turn out to be fine at WR. (Particularly if TEs Perkins and Daniels line up out wide once in a while.) LIFPO. But you have to go all the way back to 2003 (at least) to find a Husky team with less depth at WR. Even though the trend seems to be toward ever more 3- and 4-WR sets.

If this unit deserves an A-, I'd hate to see what Jood calls a B or a C.
 
Pease mentioned Ross in his interview, so I'm not so sure about him playing defense. It all depends on Kasen. If Kasen is healthy, the WR's will be very good.
 
A lisfranc injury usually takes 3-4 months to return from. Kasen is going to have twice that amount of time, he'll be fine. Stringfellow is a man-child. With Kelly in the mix now, Ross shouldn't be needed on D any more than he was at the end of last year. He's too explosive on offense(read:worth at least 2 wins) to waste as a 3rd or 4th corner, unless there are injuries ahead of him. Taylor isn't anything special, so him moving to D is no big deal. Mickens had some drops this year, but made a lot of nice plays. Add to that the fact that though Perkins and Daniels are listed as TE, they're both essentially big WR, albeit mostly unproven ones. Williams, Stringfellow, Mickens, Ross, Hall, Perkins and Daniels is a pretty solid group. Maybe not A-, but I'd say no worse than B+.
 
I wouldn't disagree. Williams/Stringfellow/Mickens/Ross is a WR corps that a lot of teams would kill to have.
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Not very diverse. We should mandate that all teams have some Steve Largent type receivers
 
I wouldn't disagree. Williams/Stringfellow/Mickens/Ross is a WR corps that a lot of teams would kill to have.
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Not very diverse. We should mandate that all teams have some Steve Largent type receivers
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Lunch pail guys?
 
I wouldn't disagree. Williams/Stringfellow/Mickens/Ross is a WR corps that a lot of teams would kill to have.
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Not very diverse. We should mandate that all teams have some Steve LargentCody Bruns type receivers
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A lisfranc injury usually takes 3-4 months to return from.
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Not sure where you're coming up with this. Stanback was laid up for six months, and it took over a year for him to round back into form. Derrick Johnson was out for over a year, if memory serves. Lisfrancs can be career-killing injuries:

Six months later, he's farther along the same route previously taken by Errict Rhett, Duce Staley, Ty Law and Kevin Jones, among others. Rhett's NFL career ended following a Lisfranc injury in 2000. Staley came back after his in 2001, but was never the same. Pittsburgh cut him last December. Law returned from surgery late in 2004 to intercept a career high 10 passes for the Jets the next season.

Jones, Detroit's running back, had surgery for a Lisfranc fracture in his left foot last December. He just starting jogging on a treadmill and hopes to be ready for Lions training camp in July.
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Link.
 
Film room guys who get the most out of limited athleticism
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Danny Woodhead, Julian Edelman, and Wes Welker agree.

REAL blue collar grit.
 
A lisfranc injury usually takes 3-4 months to return from.
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Not sure where you're coming up with this. Stanback was laid up for six months, and it took over a year for him to round back into form. Derrick Johnson was out for over a year, if memory serves. Lisfrancs can be career-killing injuries:

Six months later, he's farther along the same route previously taken by Errict Rhett, Duce Staley, Ty Law and Kevin Jones, among others. Rhett's NFL career ended following a Lisfranc injury in 2000. Staley came back after his in 2001, but was never the same. Pittsburgh cut him last December. Law returned from surgery late in 2004 to intercept a career high 10 passes for the Jets the next season.

Jones, Detroit's running back, had surgery for a Lisfranc fracture in his left foot last December. He just starting jogging on a treadmill and hopes to be ready for Lions training camp in July.
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Link.
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I'm just going off what they said when he got hurt. I don't have a link, but IIRC, that's what was said.
 
Bruns is my least favorite Husky player ever. It's not his fault, but the love he got on doogman was sickening. He was called a great route runner by many, although he never was open. If he was black, he wouldn't have gotten half the love he did. He was the scrappy white dude that everyone loves. Problem was, he sucked, and really wasn't even very scrappy.
 
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