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Eli Manning: Receiving skills make Saquon Barkley

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special With the Giants season opener right around the corner http://www.authenticsnewyorkgiants.com/cheap-aldrick-rosas-jersey , quarterback Eli Manning spent some time with the media on Friday, addressing a multitude of topics. Check out some takeaways from his time with the media below. On Saquon Barkley as a receiver“That’s what makes him special, the fact that he can be a receiver out of the backfield,” Manning said. “It just makes him that three-down back, finding ways to get him the ball in space. That’s a matchup we like. If we get man-to-man, that’s a matchup we like in the mix. Getting him the ball and letting him be an athlete, get the ball to him in space where he can make guys miss and get some big gains for us. I think it will be helpful, if teams want to play zone and drop back, having the ability to throw check downs and let him make some plays that way.”On Odell Beckham’s new contract“I was excited for Odell, because of that reason,” Manning said. “I didn’t want that to be a distraction going into Week 1. I think he has done a great job of not making it a distraction. Not talking about it, not making it an issue with the team, he has been at practice and done everything he is supposed to do. I know he is relieved it got worked out, we can put that behind us and worry about going out there and playing football. He’s handled the whole situation well and I’m just excited for him.”On Pat Shurmur’s training camp“I don’t know if much is different,” Manning said. “All training camps are pretty similar, especially in the first year. You are trying to learn the system, you are trying to get familiar with new players. You are trying to get a lot of work in, a lot of reps. You have to get a feel for the offense http://www.authenticsnewyorkgiants.com/cheap-janoris-jenkins-jersey , what plays he likes to run against certain looks. When you start game planning for teams, how he is going to call plays in the game. You are just getting a feel for everything and getting a lot work and trying to work on specific things each and every week.” On how Sterling Shepard has looked“I thought Sterling has had a great training camp,” Manning said. “I think he’s running routes well, he’s getting separation, we have moved him around a good bit with Odell being out in the spring and being limited early on in training camp. He has got work outside and inside, the last couple of years he has been mostly inside. Moving him around, putting him in different spots, he does a great job of getting open against man, you like that matchup. He gets separation and that’s what you like from those guys.”On young QBs Kyle Lauletta and Davis Webb“I think Davis, Kyle, and Alex have done a good job picking up this offense as well,” Manning said. “It’s been new for them, they are talented, they can make all the throws. Learning the offense, having great questions, all of us are learning it together. I think they have done a good job picking up on everything and also in the games, making some nice plays.” Evaluating draft-eligible wide receivers can be a tricky task, especially when looking at the numbers. College offenses are all over the place in terms of how often they throw Color Rush Riley Dixon Jersey , which can lead to a wild variance in production.Knowing it can be tricky to isolate a receiver’s role in a college offense, I started putting together a metric called Target Yards Added to attempt just that. It’s a fairly simple metric mathematically, taking a wide receiver’s yards per target and subtracting his team’s passing yards per attempt to get an idea of what that receiver added to the offense.Over the past few years, I’ve found Target Yards Added to be a good guideline to dig further into wide receivers. It’s not intended to be a ranking proxy — the top wide receiver in Target Yards Added doesn’t translate to being my WR1 in the draft. But it does help add some color to wide receiver production throughout the evaluation process. Let’s take a look at this year’s draft class and break down what it means.Shout out to Sports Info Solutions, whose data made this significantly easier to put together than in years past. Should also note some players like Keelan Doss of UC Davis are not included because FCS schools are still in the statistical stone age when it comes to things like targets.2019 Target Yards AddedWRSchoolTargetsYardsTarget ShareTarget Yards AddedWRSchoolTargetsYardsTarget ShareTarget Yards AddedI’ll usually separate these players into different groups to add more context into these numbers.High TYA, highly regardedWhen the scouting reports and Target Yards Added agree at the top, that’s the sweet spot. There isn’t really an overwhelming consensus WR1 in this class, but a few prospects considered for that title come out favorably. DK Metcalf only played seven games this season due to a neck injury, but he was by far the best receiver Ole Miss sent out in a class that features three Rebels receivers. Hakeem Butler’s performance is incredibly impressive with how much he added to the offense considering he was targeted on nearly a third of Iowa State’s passing attempts. Stanford’s JJ Arcega-Whiteside also rates well and should be considered much more than a tall jump-ball red zone threat. High TYA, mid-round gradeThese players are the types that usually sit atop the Target Yards Added chart. They can be productive deep threats if put in the right situation. Last year Keke Coutee, Tre’Quan Smith, and D.J. Chark fell into this category. But they’re also not sure things. Players like Josh Malone, Shelton Gibson, and Leontee Carroo have been in this range over the past few seasons — it’s a reason why Target Yards Added is just a guideline for a deeper evaluation. This year, players like Emanuel Hall and Terry McLaurin fit the mold. Hall could have been targeted more, but he missed five games in 2018 due to a groin injury. Still, Hall easily leads this group in Target Yards Added. McLaurin is the type of high-value prospect that should be targeted in the middle rounds, with big-play ability and a role on special teams.This can also be a place to find some potential diamonds in the rough. This year that would point to Xavier Ubosi of UAB. Ubosi hasn’t gotten a lot of attention yet in the draft process — he’s a senior who was not invited to the Senior Bowl Color Rush Landon Collins Jersey , though he did play in both the NFLPA Bowl and East-West Shrine Game — but he was one of college football’s best deep threats in 2018. Per Sports Info Solutions, he had 12 catchable targets on go routes, which resulted in 10 catches for 479 yards and seven touchdowns. He also led the entire NCAA in yards per reception (23.9).Sub-1.0 TYA, questions startA sub-1 result in Target Yards Added isn’t an automatic red flag, but it should make you ask why. That should especially be the case for highly regarded prospects and even more if that prospect is viewed as a big-play or deep threat. John Ross (0.25 TYA) fell into this category two years ago. But there are also successes here too. Chris Godwin was there in 2017 and he’s carved out a role in Tampa Bay. Perhaps the best success was Tyler Boyd (0.37) in 2016, but it took him until 2018 to really break out. Marquise Brown falls in that range this season. He had impressive production, but gets knocked for being in the most high-powered offense in college football with the amount of success Oklahoma had throwing to just about everyone else in the offense.Negative TYA, stay awayWhile sub-1 Target Yards Added can start the questions, negative Target Yards Added raises an immediate red flag. It’s hard to be a productive receiver in the NFL if that receiver wasn’t adding anything to his college offense. From 2014-2018, I have Target Yards Added for 167 prospects. 18 of those prospects had negative TYA and none have yet to become productive NFL receivers. The biggest contributor of the group has been Ty Montgomery, who found his success as a running back. Dante Pettis (-0.55) could be working his way to the lone exception. He played 12 games last year and was productive on his 45 targets with the San Francisco 49ers.This year features more potential top prospects in this category than any previous season, specifically Georgia’s Riley Ridley. There’s already some debate over Ridley, who some peg as a top-5 receiver in this class. Ridley, younger brother of Calvin (2.76 TYA), has the size and physical traits many scouts will like at the position, but production that leaves nearly infinite more questions than answers.Target Yards Added is just intended to be a tool in the box of evaluating receiver prospects, but I’ve found it to be a good jumping off point to look closer at these prospects and there’s a lot more looking to be done before April.

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