Best WR Duo In The NFL?

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Best WR Duo In The NFL? Jan 25, 2019 13:14:16 GMT -6

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Post by Danchat on Jan 25, 2019 13:14:16 GMT -6

Jan 25, 2019 8:55:35 GMT -6 VikingsBoss said:

Of the Vikings 8 wins this year, Stefon Diggs played in 7, netted 38 catches for 336 yards, 8.8 yards per catch and 4 TDs.

Adam Thielen had 52 catches for 697 yards-13.4 yards per catch-and 5 TDs. All while, for the fifth time in a five year career, playing all 16 games.

They performed nearly identically in the Vikings losses, Diggs had 6 more catches and 12 more yards (still barely more than 10 yards a catch), both had 3 TDs. And both had a monster game in the tie against Green Bay.

Can we please dispense with the myth that Stefon Diggs is somehow the Vikings best receiver? I am not saying that he isn't good. I still dispute he is by any definition a #1 receiver, despite the paycheck he is going to start getting, but all off-season long last year, Nick Olson was tweeting weekly how he is elite. This year, it's already begun. Sam Monson and MarxietFilm will no doubt being feeding the Mythos of Diggs all summer long.

Adam Thielen has 273 catches for 3616 yards and 18 TDs the last three seasons. More catches (by 23), more yards (by 843!) And 2 fewer TDs than Diggs over that span-quite honestly, it should be one...Carolina game 2017. So, 2 out of 3 he beats Diggs. Aside from the fact that, and this is a secret, he is from Minnesota and not drafted-he is almost never mentioned through the off-season. He gets paid significantly less than Diggs. He doesn't have a Geico commercial. He doesn't have innumerable Twitter threads dissecting ever route he runs.

But he didn't catch the Minneapolis Miracle. Is Stefon Diggs going to go the rest of his career being glorified for the fact Marcus Williams forgot how to tackle for one play?

Sorry, but my car lock is frozen, I am waiting for a locksmith, so this is what you get.

I agree on some fronts, Diggs does get overrated by many. I do think he has potential for a lot more and as the season went on, the plays where he was open and didn't get a pass increased. Add in the Vikings' awful screen plays and Diggs had a lot of 1-5 yard catches because of bad playcalling and bad blocking. But he's fast, has phenomenal hands, and runs great routes, so he really should be doing more. I also think it's worth mentioning that during the first half of the season, defenses were putting their best CBs on Diggs and that allowed Thielen to have monster games, and things shifted when teams finally figured out that trying to cover Thielen was a good idea.

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Best WR Duo In The NFL? Mar 30, 2019 20:30:07 GMT -6

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Post by Purple Pain on Mar 30, 2019 20:30:07 GMT -6

Diggs and Thielen are apparently not the best receiving duo in the NFL by Adam Patrick

Brandt recently ranked his top 11 NFL receiving duos for 2019 and the Vikings’ pair of pass catchers came in second on the list. Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry of the Cleveland Browns are currently the best wide receiver duo in the league according to his ranking.

Beckham and Landry are certainly talented, but let’s not award them with any titles just yet considering they haven’t even played a meaningful game together.

Diggs and Thielen are entering their fifth season as teammates in Minnesota and it doesn’t appear that they have even hit their peak yet. It’s not a crazy thought to have that these two current members of the Vikings make uo the best receiving duo the franchise has seen since the days of Cris Carter and Randy Moss during the early 2000s.

In their last 32 regular season games together, Diggs and Thielen have combined for 379 catches, 4,616 yards, and 31 touchdowns. Last year, they became the first two Minnesota wide receivers to both finish a single season with at least 1,000 yards since Carter and Moss did it in 2000.

Brandt thinks that Diggs and Thielen might see their production take a dip in 2019 due to Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer wanting the team’s offense to shift back to focusing more on their rushing attack. But Minnesota’s talented receiving duo did just fine when the team finished second in the NFL in total rushing attempts in 2017.

This ranking is fine though. Now it will just motivate Diggs and Thielen to perform even better in 2019 and leave zero doubts about who really is the absolute best receiving duo in the league.

Link: thevikingage.com/2019/03/28/minnesota-vikings-diggs-thielen-not-best-wr-duo/

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FWIW. The current crop of Vikings WR's and their 40 times. Although, speed does make the WR.


Jeff Badet 	        4.27
Dillon Mitchell	        4.46
Stefon Diggs	        4.46
Adam Thielen	        4.49
Jordan Taylor	        4.50
Olabisi Johnson	        4.51
Alexander Hollins	4.52
Davion Davis	        4.63
Laquon Treadwell	4.63
Brandon Zylstra	        4.64
Chad Beebe	        4.68

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