Grant and Danny
What Will Noah Brown's Production Look Like?
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Went six for 153, and then seven grabs for a buck 72 and a touchdown against the bucks and bangles respectively. The rest of the season, he was largely not much of a factor, but he is flashed. He has shown that he is big, and that's the key, I think, to him coming to DC Danny, the size, right? He's going to provide something that is lacking in the receiver room. He could take the lid off the defense, and you and I both think he's going to play very quickly. I do too. Now, how fast he fully gets up to speed and he's integrated into everything, I don't know the answer. I know. I don't know how hard it is. I don't know if he's got a photographic memory and it's encyclopedic within 24 hours, or if it takes him like a normal human being, a little while to learn the brand new language, where to line up and how learn the quarterback that he's going to be playing with, scheme, design, what's asked of the beach and every play. It's probably not fair to say, all right, on Sunday, you're going to get 10 targets, let's see what happens. That's, that's a tough ask for anybody. But I think this is their second best wide receiver. I don't know if that's inflammatory to people, but I don't think much of that room outside of Terri McCorn. And I think opposite him, this is the perfect, you know, they're obviously more more key players, bigger stars as number two receivers. But this is the kind by design of player I would try to have opposite McCorn. I would have the big deep threat. The guy that scares you to take the top off the defense to let Terry work where I would want him to work, which is that 20 yards in an that's where I think he's really, really good as a technician. That's what I want. I want the deep threat. Look no further than a guy that averaged. What was it? 17 plus yards per catch last year. Please. And thank you. I don't think it should be controversial at all to say he's their second best wide receiver. I mean, we're a long ways removed from him being a seventh round pick. I don't think that's how he's necessarily viewed anymore. He broke out in Dallas. Remember, this isn't a one trick pony. Yeah, two different stops. Really a one hit wonder, I guess is what I was looking for, where he just suddenly emerged for a couple of games with the Texans. He actually was better the year before again, climbing a depth chart where he wasn't supposed to be a big deal in Dallas and making over 40 catches for over 550 yards. Then on a new team and a new offense that to your point, he had to learn pretty quickly with Houston. He was able to emerge and have some huge games. If you look at PFF grading, not gospel, but just part of what I would say is an insight that I want added to every puzzle that we're going to put together here on the show. Terry McLaurin's grade last year as a player on offense was 75.1. Noah Browns was 74.3. Terry McLaurin's receiving grade last year was 74.5, which is really, really good. Noah Browns was 75, slightly higher graded. Now, they don't take sample size into account. I'm not suggesting he's a better player than Terry McLaurin. Deami Brown, if he played 11 plays last year and played them all very well and ran good routes and made a couple nice blocks, would grade out very high as well. My point is just to say, it doesn't really matter what metric you're looking at. He should grade out higher than a guy in Deami Brown who caught 12 balls last season, or Alameda Zacchaeus, who despite having an excellent camp and a terrific preseason, and I feel very good about what he's going to provide in the slot and around the line of scrimmage, Noah Browns been more successful, more of a factor in the league the last couple of years than Alameda Zacchaeus. So I don't think she'd get any heat for that take at all. That does not seem hot to me. That's not even warm. That's just a, that's just a take. Well, people who are so reverential towards, you know, front offices and they decide that a guy before he's even played NFL down, like a Luke McCaffrey or, you know, because they've seen Byron Pringle or now Deami Brown's going to break out, of which I'm not going to hold my breath on. No, no, those are the guys. So if you're, if you're one of those in filling the blank executive we trust, automatically, whatever pill they hand you to swallow, maybe you might be offended by that. So, I guess maybe that's who I'm referring to when I say that, that was my, my semi-hot take. But this is the how I would design it, right? If I'm able to sort of, you know, take the names off it, I'm doing Madden, create a player, I would go, I'd have one receiver that's quicker, work, you know, again, kind of works that 20 yards and in, great hands, tough as nails, does everything asked of him, like McClellan, and then I'd have the deep threat, right? Now, ideally that guy's got some size as a deep threat as well. And that's what Noah Brown is. So history's been filled with a number of players that have had lesser roles in stacked rooms, right? Think Pierre Garcon in Indianapolis, for example, you're, you're the number three with Reggie Wayne and some other studs there, or, you know, a guy that's running back in some places that he goes to another venue and gets it, it gets a better shot, or a guy that's a part-time starter goes somewhere else and thrives. History's littered with guys where you come from pretty good places, with pretty good rooms, you're, you're capable, but you're just a victim of numbers, you go somewhere else with a larger role and you can thrive. I'm not saying he's a pro baller, I'm not saying he's going to, you know, catch 1200 yards worth of balls. What I am saying is I think he's going to help a lot. Totally. A couple other numbers that I just think are interesting, and I'm only using McClellan as the comparison because he's the guy here that we know is really, really good. McClellan last year, after the catch struggled a little bit to the point where when we talked to Dan Quinn, we royally, we have not talked today on this show, but when the media talked to Dan Quinn in town, one of the things he said that McClellan was really working on all off-season going into camp was the ability to make plays after the catch, to extend plays, to break tackles, to do something after he caught the football. Last year, yards after catch per reception, for Terry McClellan, 4.5 on average. Noah Brown, 6.7. Now, that's two plus yards. It does not sound like a big deal. From an average standpoint, that is massive. That speaks to the scheme and the offense and probably how wide open he was and how much separation he got, maybe even ball placement from a quarterback, shroud being better than how, obviously, there's a lot of things that go into that, but that's not nothing. I mean, this is a guy that was a rumbling big presence after the catch despite his size. You mentioned 17.2 per reception, McClellan last year, 12.7. Different offense, not as prolific, but he can take the lid off a little bit. Now, flip side of this, an area where he struggled, I thought, a tad. Last year, McClellan was graded with four drops via PFF in 128 targets in a 79 catch season. Four drops, 128 targets. On just 54 targets, Noah Brown dropped five passes last year. They played together at Ohio State. These two guys, they know each other well. They're both Buckeyes. One was drafted in the third round. It looks like should have been drafted probably in the first or second round in Terry McClellan's case, probably the first round. Noah Brown was a seventh round pick. So I'm not pretending like he's coming in here to be AJ Green or something. That's not what he is, but there's some things I really like. So next, let's do this over or under on projections for him. Let's set him at 49 and a half catches and 499 and a half yards. Using his last couple seasons plus the projected role here will come up with basically a 50 catch, 500 yard, standard wide receiver two and a not great offense kind of numbers. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too, with the name of your price tool from Progressive. It works just the way it sounds. 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