Originally Posted by BossChief:
Kelce was the top rated run blocker in the NFL while having nearly 900 receiving yards as the #2TE for 1/3 of the year.
With the improvements to the OL, adding a legit threat at WR, the maturation of the rest of the guys on O and a healthy Charles...all that is going to force teams to open up the middle of the field.
That's gonna equate to Kelce and Thomas having lots of opportunities for chunk yards.
What I'd like KnoMo to go watch is Kelces preseason catch where he breaks away from Cincinnatis defense. Scheffler could never do that.
Now, Kelce is going to have a big year man. This offense has a shot to be pretty good (not Denver good obviously). [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Kelce had over 200 more receiving yards in his first season than Scheffler did in any one of his eight year career.
TOTALLY SAME GUY.
Kelce is nice, no doubt. To be fair re: his stats last year though: he was a TE on a team that has zero wr td completions. I'd like to know how many times kelce and scheffler were targeted in the seasons being compared before drawing conclusions... [Reply]
Originally Posted by vailpass:
Kelce is nice, no doubt. To be fair re: his stats last year though: he was a TE on a team that has zero wr td completions. I'd like to know how many times kelce and scheffler were targeted in the seasons being compared before drawing conclusions...
In 2006, Tony's rookie year, he was targeted 37 times with 18 rec for 286 yds and 4 TDs.
In 2007, Tony was targeted 65 times with 49 rec for 549 yds and 4 TDs.
2006 was the Jake Plummer to Jay Cutler midyear transition. Javon Walker and Rod Smith had over 200 targets and and 130 or so receptions. Brandon Marshall was also a rookie with 37 targets in 2006, so Sheffler tied for 3rd most targets, essentially 4th most targeted option.
In 2014, Kelce was the 2nd most targeted with the most receptions for KC. And, that was his 2nd year in the league right, doesn't look like he did anything his rookie year, dunno if he was hurt or not. [Reply]
Alex is pretty good at throwing to TEs; from 2009-2011, Vernon Davis racked up 2963 yards and 30 TDs (including playoffs). No doubt Kelce will have a pretty good year. [Reply]
Originally Posted by MagicHef:
Alex is pretty good at throwing to TEs; from 2009-2011, Vernon Davis racked up 2963 yards and 30 TDs (including playoffs). No doubt Kelce will have a pretty good year.
You've got that right! Now that we have a legit deep threat, things are bound to loosen up underneath. If Alice throws the long ball 3-4 a game and proves he can actually make some of them teams will be forced to stop stacking the box. I'm expecting the run game to be huge again too.
It's happening....they're sucking me back in :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mile High Mania:
In 2014, Kelce was the 2nd most targeted with the most receptions for KC. And, that was his 2nd year in the league right, doesn't look like he did anything his rookie year, dunno if he was hurt or not.
He missed all of his rookie year...so essentially last season was his first to actually play. [Reply]
