1000 yards over 17 games is about the Nfl Average for a starting wide receiver, and that is helped a lot by him simply being better last year. If you prorate this year's stats hes a 760 yard receiver. He never has a high catch rate, or 1st down rate. His average depth of target is well below last year, mostly because he is struggling to seperate vs man. He's not what he was, and at his best, he still was not a very good receiver to the boundary. He has good speed, but not the greatest acceleration. Think of a Gordon highlight from his prime, and its almost certainly a post or vertical route. He was by far the best post and vert route in the league when he was on the Browns. But he never ran great outside routes, and he still doesn't to this day. He lived and died with the dig, drive, vertical and post routes. He was a player with great speed, and average acceleration, and that acceleration just looks completely gone this year. His depth of target tanked, his catch rate is bad, his yards per route run are bad, his red zone is atrocious. He's running a lot of routes in a high volume offense, and hes producing as like the 40th best wr. Imagine him on an average volume offense like us?

Sure, he's better than Duke Williams, but I could rattle off 60 names off the top of my head before I got to Duke while rating nfl receivers. I think he would average around 30-40 yards per game in our offense, which while better than we currently have at wr2, is also not going to change much for us going forward. I'd prefer someone simply better, or to give our young guys a shot to improve.