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I like what I seen of him on the small amount of carries he had. Did we downgrade for last year's number 2 RB? What's his ceiling? Floor?
Just how good is Jaylen Wright?
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I love the kid. Thrilled heās on this roster.
Very happy to have Achane, Wright and Gordon. Hopefully someone comes to take Mattison off our hands.
Very happy to have Achane, Wright and Gordon. Hopefully someone comes to take Mattison off our hands.
I maybe in the smaller camp now. But I still think Jaylen Wright is going to be a stud for us. I love his burst and balance. I thought when you looked at his runs last year he was put in a really bad spot majority of the plays he was in on.
JamesWsenior
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I dont know how good he is. Haven't seen enough.
Just hope he gets a bit more playing time this year. Maybe he just didn't catch on to blocking last year, but I'd expected him to get more carries. Don't want to run Achane into the ground again this year.
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He reminds me a lot of Jay Ajayi. He runs like his hair is on fire, almost a bit out of control. I think he's got a good mix of size & speed. He really could be the guy we want to lean on as Achane spends 50% of the time receiving.
Biggest issue last year IMHO was that the OL blocked so badly on the small subset of plays designed to get Jaylen the ball. He spent half his carries getting tackled in the backfield on plays that were completely blown up as I recall.
Both McGenuis and Achane have recently talked about "yards left on the field" or something like that. I think they probably think that Wright, who I think has great potential, needs to 'learn the game' a bit more. I'm talking both pass protection and hole exploitation. (Cue Circumstances)
Golphindolphin
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Any projections at this point are just the wildest of guesses. If he's worked on the things that kept him off the field last year then his talent certainly dictates a larger role than '24. Here's a good video from Ryder McConville on why Jaylen is a breakout candidate this year-
and another workout video-
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I thought he played well last year despite the questionable OL play. I was pretty excited that we drafted him, tbh.
I was a little surprised that he didn't get more touches after we essentially used 2 3rd round picks to land him. We could have used the 3rd from this years draft that we gave up. Not his fault that Grier blew picks though...
I was a little surprised that he didn't get more touches after we essentially used 2 3rd round picks to land him. We could have used the 3rd from this years draft that we gave up. Not his fault that Grier blew picks though...
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Respectfully disagree with your comparison to Ajay. He ran to contact. Wright sure looks like a beast but he does not run through people. Needs to be more north/south.
JamesWsenior
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He averaged 3 yards a carry no?
I think he has good potential and didn't see the field a lot because my guess is 2 things. Achane and pass protection. It will slow down for him this year and hopefully we have a better and healthy O-Line. I do think he is going to have some competition from Ollie Gordon. If anything, he is a very solid back up.
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He lost reps because he didn't know the receiving routes, he lined up in the wrong position several times and needs to get better at pass protection. Every time he was in the game it was almost a guaranteed running play.