Poor Sammy Watkins: Top 10 last year in both over- and underthrown footballs.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2015/2014-incomplete-pass-breakdown-receivers

Sammy Watkins relied heavily on YAC in college, but Buffalo used him, often unsuccessfully, as a deep threat (average target: 13.3 yards). Watkins and Justin Hunter are the only wideouts to rank in the top 10 in both overthrow and underthrow rates. Pairs of teammates from Washington and Arizona lead the underthrown table, though Pierre Garcon and Larry Fitzgerald are not involved.

I guess this is really just numerical confirmation of what we all saw last year, but we have guys near the top of every graph in missed throws.

[bleve]

Re: Poor Sammy Watkins: Top 10 last year in both over- and underthrown footballs.

Hey let's spread the wealth.
for WR, Buffalo had not only Sammy ranked 5th for overthrows, but had two receivers in the top 13 for underthrows, a 5th ranked TE for underthrows, and 13th ranked RB for overthrows.

Let's not draft a QB and get more shiny toys!

[kingJofNYC]

Re: Poor Sammy Watkins: Top 10 last year in both over- and underthrown footballs.

I don't want to turn this into a Beckham vs Watkins debate once more, but Beckham was top 5 in catchable thows/balls. Funny thing is, Beckham still had to go up and make some ridiculous grabs to bail out Eli. They targeted him a ton though.

[Buffalogic]

Re: Poor Sammy Watkins: Top 10 last year in both over- and underthrown footballs.

Hey let's spread the wealth.
for WR, Buffalo had not only Sammy ranked 5th for overthrows, but had two receivers in the top 13 for underthrows, a 5th ranked TE for underthrows, and 13th ranked RB for overthrows.

Let's not draft a QB and get more shiny toys!

Because starting a 4th round rookie qb is really going to solve that. Laughable.

[Joe Fo Sho]

Re: Poor Sammy Watkins: Top 10 last year in both over- and underthrown footballs.

Because starting a 4th round rookie qb is really going to solve that. Laughable.

It's obvious that there was not a QB available that we could have drafted instead of Sammy. It still may not have been a good idea to use 2 first round picks on a position that relies almost entirely on somebody else. Especially when that 'someone else' is a position that the Bills have been below average for the last 15 years.