This site is neither endorsed, nor sponsored by, nor affiliated with New Orleans Saints or NFL Properties LLC. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy.Anyone writing him off right now hasn’t done their homework. But there’s ample evidence to suggest his career arc is ready to snap back up and continue its great trajectory. Maybe, despite this evidence to the contrary, he isn’t as successful with Taysom Hill or Jameis Winston or someone else as he was with Brees. He threw for 3,992 yards, 32 touchdowns and had only 5 interceptions to help the Saints earn a 13-3 record. Maybe Thomas isn’t able to recover from this ankle injury. Brees led the NFL with a QB rating of 115.7. Raw percentages like that aren’t the best measure of accuracy or a receiver’s sure hands, but it’s something to think about. Those numbers went up - however slightly - with Teddy Bridgewater and Taysom Hill throwing to him.Īlso, for the hand wringing about how well Thomas benefited from Brees’ prolific accuracy - his completion percentage jumped up to 80.2% in those 10 games without Brees compared to his career catch rate of 77.6%. Täglich werden Tausende neue hochwertige Bilder hinzugefügt.
For the curious, Thomas has clocked 7.3 receptions and 85.0 receiving yards per game in his career. Suchen Sie nach Drew Brees Fotos und über 100 Millionen weiteren aktuellen Bildern und Stockfotos bei IMAGO. Follow your favorite teams and leagues for in-depth analysis and expert coverage from the. And remember, there are 17 regular season games now. Get the latest news and updates on Drew Brees from The Athletic. Only Stefon Diggs beat those numbers last year (127 catches and 1,535 yards). That averages out to 7.7 catches and 92.3 receiving yards per game, and extrapolates over 16 games to 123 receptions for 1,476 yards. When the 2020 NFL commences, Brees will be the NFLs all-time leader in. In 10 career games without Brees (not counting his early exit in 2019 Week 2 against the Rams, when Thomas went 10-of-13 for 89 yards, or the second half in 2020 Week 10 where Thomas finished 2-of-7 for 27 yards) Thomas totaled 77 receptions for 923 yards. Drew Brees signed a 2 year, 50M contract to return as the New Orleans Saints quarterback for the 20 seasons. And it doesn’t hold up after a couple seconds of research. Theres not anything, I dont think, that I can do or accomplish. The implication there is that Thomas will decline without Brees throwing to him. It has been an interesting road, but I wouldnt trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am. “Playing to his strengths means he needs an accurate quarterback, and Drew Brees is the most accurate quarterback in history,” one anonymous team executive told Fowler of Thomas, who was ranked No. But some of the reasoning relayed to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler in a survey ranking the league’s best wide receivers leaves something to be desired. His frustrating early-season injury derailed the entire campaign and it’s understandable for shot-callers around the NFL to have doubts, or at least curiosity, on where his career goes from here. Sure, Michael Thomas had a down year in 2020.