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New Orleans Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas was once widely considered one of the best in the game. He set an NFL record (that has since been broken) with 149 catches back in 2019, his second straight year leading the league in receptions. But injuries robbed him of the next few years of his career, and he didn’t really get back to full health until this past season.
Unfortunately, that stretch of injuries didn’t allow him to make it all the way through the year. Thomas suffered a knee injury during the Saints’ Week 10 loss to the Vikings, taking a big hit from cornerback Akayleb Evans on a play where he had to reach far outside his frame for a ball thrown quite a bit too high. Were it not for that inaccurate pass, Thomas says, he might have put up similar numbers to what he had done in his prime.
“[W]ell if I didn’t get set up by a bad ball I probably would’ve had a light little 1k yards this year but could of should of I know I get it lol,” Thomas wrote on Twitter.
Thomas had 439 receiving yards through the Saints’ first nine games before the “bad ball” ended his season just three snaps into Game No. 10. Those numbers put him on pace for 829 receiving yards, which is not quite 1,000; but if he mixed in a few of his better games over the second half of the year, it’s possible he could have gotten there.
Either way, it seems like Thomas thinks he’d be better off trying to get those yards elsewhere in the future. “[T]hey wasn’t even trying to get me the ball but it’s no denying my style of play it dont age playa you will see,” Thomas wrote of the Saints, in response to a tweet that said a change of scenery would be best for his future.
While we will indeed see whether or not Thomas’ style of play ages, the idea that the Saints weren’t trying to get him the ball doesn’t hold much water. Through the first eight weeks of the season, Thomas averaged 7.6 targets per game. Had he…
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Author : Jared Dubin
Publish date : 2024-01-29 15:42:10
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