For this part of my article, I took a look at what number the wide receivers have their most important attributes at. In my opinion, those are Agility, Speed, and Hands. Intelligence is also useful but for me those have to be top 3. TPE doesn’t always tell the whole story, so who’s got the most TPE in the most useful places?
Player Name – Team – Agility – Speed - Hands
1. Josh Garden - - 80 – 82 – 71
2. Stormblessed - - 70 – 92 – 70
3. Bailey Cook - - 73 – 81 – 80
4. Bradley Westfield - - 76 – 84 – 72
5. Robert Phelps - - 74 – 81 – 80
6. Lincoln Jefferson - - 70 – 83 – 75
7. Kendrick Hendrix - - 73 – 83 – 76
8. Shane Weston - - 77 – 81 – 78
9. Cooper Christmas - - 75 – 77 – 75
10. DJ Law - - 77 – 83 – 70
11. Alexandre LeClair - - 79 – 80 – 75
12. Damian West - - 70 – 80 – 70
13. Jonathan Shaloiko - - 70 – 72 – 77
14. RFFO Mademe - - 65 – 70 – 55
15. Granit Lewis - - 70 – 74 – 60
16. Adam Bennett - - 55 – 65 – 75
17. Wizard Stephen - - 60 – 72 – 70
This is the most interesting thing for me, I can see how each person chose to build. There’s some choices that surprise you, and in theory perhaps wouldn’t have performed as well, yet they did. Stormblessed has put all his eggs in the speed basket, even after 41 drops last season, it apparently wasn’t enough to convince him speed isn’t everything.
The highest TPE receiver in the league doesn’t have all that much in the important stats, especially hands. It worked for him last season, but I don’t trust that, and IMO it shouldn’t work well. Garden didn’t seem fazed by it last season, but Stormblessed was, so we’ll see which is the trend and which is the outlier.
The most solid build here I feel is Robert Phelps. He’s got well rounded attributes, and of the 3 I, and it seems most of the receivers, find Agility to be the least important of the most important. His build is almost identical to Cook’s, though he has 1 extra point in Agility. Assuming they’re building towards 80/80/80, Shane Weston is the closest to reaching that build target, at 77/81/78, though he doesn’t have the 80 in Hands, he’s got 5 attribute points shy, versus 6 for Phelps.
Alexandre LeClair has a very subtly good build. I’d rather see his Hands at 79 and Agility at 75, but he’s also only 6 attribute points away from 80/80/80. For a guy with 40-60 less TPE, that’s a really solid job he’s done. He might need it in Las Vegas if Stormblessed’s all in speed approach doesn’t work again. He might be a surprise player, potentially filling the role that Jefferson played in Arizona last season. Second fiddle to Stormblessed, but put up just as good numbers by being a reliable option.
Sticking with Las Vegas, RFFO Mademe updated for the first time. His hands are awful, so I don’t expect him to be a very good option for Las Vegas on the field, but from a building standpoint, anyone updating is great for the team. If he’s updating, you can always trade him away if it comes to a point where there’s not enough footballs to go around. If he’s a very slow updater, and doesn’t mind playing 3rd string, he could be the best 3rd string in the league for a long time. If he keeps updating. It will depend how many new receivers we get each season.
Despite being at much lower levels of TPE, Mademe’s build is a pretty good display of the receiver group as a whole. Speed #1. The top 8 in TPE all have speed over 80, and of the top 12 only Cooper Christmas is not at least at 80. Just 1 player has agility at 80, and 2 have hands at 80, and neither has a player above that. Only 1 player doesn’t have speed at 70, and no one has it below 65 (the low mark for Agility and Hands is 55 for both). The average speed is 78.8, compared to just 71.4 for agility and 72.3 for hands.
Most receivers agree speed is the go to stat. Stormblessed is the only one to go all in on speed. Most went for a balanced build of some sort. If it turns out speed is the be all end all, Stormblessed is in good shape. It would surprise me at all though if he’s rushing for no reason though. I don’t think speed is so much more important that it’s worth putting every TPE in it. We shall see though. Some very interesting stuff to look forward to in receiver-land.
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Player Name – Team – Agility – Speed - Hands
1. Josh Garden - - 80 – 82 – 71
2. Stormblessed - - 70 – 92 – 70
3. Bailey Cook - - 73 – 81 – 80
4. Bradley Westfield - - 76 – 84 – 72
5. Robert Phelps - - 74 – 81 – 80
6. Lincoln Jefferson - - 70 – 83 – 75
7. Kendrick Hendrix - - 73 – 83 – 76
8. Shane Weston - - 77 – 81 – 78
9. Cooper Christmas - - 75 – 77 – 75
10. DJ Law - - 77 – 83 – 70
11. Alexandre LeClair - - 79 – 80 – 75
12. Damian West - - 70 – 80 – 70
13. Jonathan Shaloiko - - 70 – 72 – 77
14. RFFO Mademe - - 65 – 70 – 55
15. Granit Lewis - - 70 – 74 – 60
16. Adam Bennett - - 55 – 65 – 75
17. Wizard Stephen - - 60 – 72 – 70
This is the most interesting thing for me, I can see how each person chose to build. There’s some choices that surprise you, and in theory perhaps wouldn’t have performed as well, yet they did. Stormblessed has put all his eggs in the speed basket, even after 41 drops last season, it apparently wasn’t enough to convince him speed isn’t everything.
The highest TPE receiver in the league doesn’t have all that much in the important stats, especially hands. It worked for him last season, but I don’t trust that, and IMO it shouldn’t work well. Garden didn’t seem fazed by it last season, but Stormblessed was, so we’ll see which is the trend and which is the outlier.
The most solid build here I feel is Robert Phelps. He’s got well rounded attributes, and of the 3 I, and it seems most of the receivers, find Agility to be the least important of the most important. His build is almost identical to Cook’s, though he has 1 extra point in Agility. Assuming they’re building towards 80/80/80, Shane Weston is the closest to reaching that build target, at 77/81/78, though he doesn’t have the 80 in Hands, he’s got 5 attribute points shy, versus 6 for Phelps.
Alexandre LeClair has a very subtly good build. I’d rather see his Hands at 79 and Agility at 75, but he’s also only 6 attribute points away from 80/80/80. For a guy with 40-60 less TPE, that’s a really solid job he’s done. He might need it in Las Vegas if Stormblessed’s all in speed approach doesn’t work again. He might be a surprise player, potentially filling the role that Jefferson played in Arizona last season. Second fiddle to Stormblessed, but put up just as good numbers by being a reliable option.
Sticking with Las Vegas, RFFO Mademe updated for the first time. His hands are awful, so I don’t expect him to be a very good option for Las Vegas on the field, but from a building standpoint, anyone updating is great for the team. If he’s updating, you can always trade him away if it comes to a point where there’s not enough footballs to go around. If he’s a very slow updater, and doesn’t mind playing 3rd string, he could be the best 3rd string in the league for a long time. If he keeps updating. It will depend how many new receivers we get each season.
Despite being at much lower levels of TPE, Mademe’s build is a pretty good display of the receiver group as a whole. Speed #1. The top 8 in TPE all have speed over 80, and of the top 12 only Cooper Christmas is not at least at 80. Just 1 player has agility at 80, and 2 have hands at 80, and neither has a player above that. Only 1 player doesn’t have speed at 70, and no one has it below 65 (the low mark for Agility and Hands is 55 for both). The average speed is 78.8, compared to just 71.4 for agility and 72.3 for hands.
Most receivers agree speed is the go to stat. Stormblessed is the only one to go all in on speed. Most went for a balanced build of some sort. If it turns out speed is the be all end all, Stormblessed is in good shape. It would surprise me at all though if he’s rushing for no reason though. I don’t think speed is so much more important that it’s worth putting every TPE in it. We shall see though. Some very interesting stuff to look forward to in receiver-land.
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