Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
Originally posted by btthepunk:
I'll say this first. I love Crabtree and hope he's here for a long time. I think he's the best player on our offense other than Kaepernick. Better than Gore and Davis. But..
Career receiving yards are almost identical. Crabtree has him by 40 yards and 1 TD. Harvin though blows Crabtree out in returns and rushing stats. All together Harvin has 3800 more total yards and 8 more TD's.
I give a flying f**k about what Harvin has done. Crabtree just had a better year as a receiver than Harvin has had in any year of his career. Crabtree has been healthy, Harvin has missed games in every single year of his career. Crabtree fits this offense, has chemistry with Kaepernick and has performed well on a winning team and has only continued to improve. Don't care about Harvin's return stats, you can find guys late in the draft who can be returners.
But not guys who are great receivers, runners, and returners.
It is possible to have both. People are thinking too much that we'll be in salary cap hell for years with one big free agent. Plus he will not get $10 million a year. He'll probably have more yards next year than Manningham, Jenkins, and Williams combined.
Harvin didn't miss any games in 2011 and up until this last year he only missed 3 career games. His injury history is way overblown.