so ceedee playing with a carousel of bums as a number 2 and producing a better year than devonta in 17 games don’t support my claim? lol sounds good bruh
He played in an offense run by Dak Prescott, Andy Dalton, and (briefly) by Ben Dinucci that put up 4161 passing yards in 16 games in 2020. What’s disingenuous of your Ben Dinucci proclamation is CeeDee had 433 of his 900 yards in his rookie year in the first 5 games. Nearly half came from Dak, and he only got about 500 all the rest of the season over the next 12! So no, he didn’t do very well at all with Dinucci and Dalton.
DeVonta did not have a Dak Prescott being down by 3 scores every game to hyper-inflate his numbers over the first third of the season. Last year, DeVonta played in an offense that put up only 3404 passing yards in 17 games. It’s a completely different style of offense that doesn’t promote big receiving yards. We run on first, second, and third down. You don’t put up any stats if the team doesn’t throw the ball.
Extrapolate Devonta Smith’s 916 receiving yards to the difference in passing the two teams had and he pulls out 1119 receiving yards, trumping both CeeDee’s first AND second seasons.
Now, look deeper: CeeDee Lamb’s yards per receptions are 12.6 and 13.9 his first two years while averaging 8.8 yards per target. DeVonta Smith’s is 14.3 in only his rookie year, despite averaging that very same 8.8 ypt. They’re asked to run the same routes, and Devonta is getting more out of them.
Flip the receivers’ situations and Devonta blows CeeDee out of the water. Best part is Devonta has an opportunity to build on his rookie year and blossom into something more. CeeDee is still working on that, leaving something to be desired from year 2.
He’s not the best WR in the East just because he plays for my team, he’s the best WR in the East because he’s earned it. If CeeDee wants it, he needs to earn it.
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