49ers sign WR Mike Evans

Originally posted by niner4life21:
I think some of you are being overly pessimistic about his age/injuries.

Hasn't he only really had one season riddled with injuries (last year), and has otherwise been somewhat of an iron man who tied Jerry's consecutive 1K record?

Sure, he's got some serious mileage on him, but I he's not exactly injury prone. Plus, he's at the same age that Boldin and Emmanuel Sanders joined the team.

I doubt they're done bolstering the WR room this offseason. Would be shocked if they didn't add a speedster in the first 3 rounds.

I am so tired of us "adding a speed WR" in the draft. We do this what seems like every single year and it never works out.

How about we focus on WRs who are GOOD rather than WRs who are FAST?

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by niner4life21:
I think some of you are being overly pessimistic about his age/injuries.

Hasn't he only really had one season riddled with injuries (last year), and has otherwise been somewhat of an iron man who tied Jerry's consecutive 1K record?

Sure, he's got some serious mileage on him, but I he's not exactly injury prone. Plus, he's at the same age that Boldin and Emmanuel Sanders joined the team.

I doubt they're done bolstering the WR room this offseason. Would be shocked if they didn't add a speedster in the first 3 rounds.

I am so tired of us "adding a speed WR" in the draft. We do this what seems like every single year and it never works out.

How about we focus on WRs who are GOOD rather than WRs who are FAST?

Speed typically leads to separation and explosive plays. Kyle is good at creating space in the pass game so it's not as vital for us as other teams but it still helps when you face that one matchup that can shut down his creativity and match our lack of game breaking speed like Seattle did to this team to close out last season. I think our current group can beat 80-90% of the pass coverage in this league...it's that 10%-20% and in the playoffs that worry me. We need more effective speed.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by niner4life21:
I think some of you are being overly pessimistic about his age/injuries.

Hasn't he only really had one season riddled with injuries (last year), and has otherwise been somewhat of an iron man who tied Jerry's consecutive 1K record?

Sure, he's got some serious mileage on him, but I he's not exactly injury prone. Plus, he's at the same age that Boldin and Emmanuel Sanders joined the team.

I doubt they're done bolstering the WR room this offseason. Would be shocked if they didn't add a speedster in the first 3 rounds.

I am so tired of us "adding a speed WR" in the draft. We do this what seems like every single year and it never works out.

How about we focus on WRs who are GOOD rather than WRs who are FAST?

Yeah we got Jordan Watkins and Jacob Cowing right there….both are 4.3 guys.

s**t Isaac Guerendo is 220 4.33, he's explosive as s**t and none of them could sniff the field.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
I am so tired of us "adding a speed WR" in the draft. We do this what seems like every single year and it never works out.

How about we focus on WRs who are GOOD rather than WRs who are FAST?

I agree. I dont need fast, but I do need someone who can track a deep ball. Without Aiyuk, we were way too limited to short and intermediate throws. Kittle, CMC, and Jennings are obviously good personnel, but they are in the short field. Last year the 49ers had 4 passing plays over 40 yards. Purdy only had 1.

Evans will partially unlock that. He can run a go route and go get it. Hopefully a healthy Pearsall helps. I'm hopeful Watkins can build on that role. That's exactly what he did in college. If we can get 12-15 snaps a game and one target from him, its something. Something to keep a safety back. And of course if we can run the ball better this year, that will unlock the play action ball.

In the draft, I'd love a Z receiver that can track a ball.

Originally posted by jcs:
Speed typically leads to separation and explosive plays. Kyle is good at creating space in the pass game so it's not as vital for us as other teams but it still helps when you face that one matchup that can shut down his creativity and match our lack of game breaking speed like Seattle did to this team to close out last season. I think our current group can beat 80-90% of the pass coverage in this league...it's that 10%-20% and in the playoffs that worry me. We need more effective speed.

We have 3 4.3 offensive guys on the team right now and none of them could get on the field. Speed is great if you can do everything else with that same speed.

one of our WRs from the past two drafts needs to step up. Guerendo clearly wasn't doing something right if he couldn't take any snaps from mid Robinson jr

Originally posted by scooterhd:
I agree. I dont need fast, but I do need someone who can track a deep ball. Without Aiyuk, we were way too limited to short and intermediate throws. Kittle, CMC, and Jennings are obviously good personnel, but they are in the short field. Last year the 49ers had 4 passing plays over 40 yards. Purdy only had 1.

Evans will partially unlock that. He can run a go route and go get it. Hopefully a healthy Pearsall helps. I'm hopeful Watkins can build on that role. That's exactly what he did in college. If we can get 12-15 snaps a game and one target from him, its something. Something to keep a safety back. And of course if we can run the ball better this year, that will unlock the play action ball.

In the draft, I'd love a Z receiver that can track a ball.

Legit Mike Evans is one of the best deep ball separators in the NFL. We already got that.

a speedy slot WR would be nice and that doesn't have to be a first rd pick

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by jcs:
Speed typically leads to separation and explosive plays. Kyle is good at creating space in the pass game so it's not as vital for us as other teams but it still helps when you face that one matchup that can shut down his creativity and match our lack of game breaking speed like Seattle did to this team to close out last season. I think our current group can beat 80-90% of the pass coverage in this league...it's that 10%-20% and in the playoffs that worry me. We need more effective speed.

We have 3 4.3 offensive guys on the team right now and none of them could get on the field. Speed is great if you can do everything else with that same speed.

one of our WRs from the past two drafts needs to step up. Guerendo clearly wasn't doing something right if he couldn't take any snaps from mid Robinson jr

Hopefully Evans can come in as the Pro he's known for and provide the leadership and experience to help those guys develop but I'd still add more talent to the pool in the draft.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by scooterhd:
I agree. I dont need fast, but I do need someone who can track a deep ball. Without Aiyuk, we were way too limited to short and intermediate throws. Kittle, CMC, and Jennings are obviously good personnel, but they are in the short field. Last year the 49ers had 4 passing plays over 40 yards. Purdy only had 1.

Evans will partially unlock that. He can run a go route and go get it. Hopefully a healthy Pearsall helps. I'm hopeful Watkins can build on that role. That's exactly what he did in college. If we can get 12-15 snaps a game and one target from him, its something. Something to keep a safety back. And of course if we can run the ball better this year, that will unlock the play action ball.

In the draft, I'd love a Z receiver that can track a ball.

Legit Mike Evans is one of the best deep ball separators in the NFL. We already got that.

a speedy slot WR would be nice and that doesn't have to be a first rd pick

I think he's more a "contested catch" specialist than a separator on the deep ball. He's probably got the biggest wingspan of any WR in the league combined with his 6-5 frame and his pure physicality. He's not beating people off the line but dragging them with him into the end zone. Personally I would call Jaxon Smith-Njigba or DeVonta Smith deep ball separators those who can run away from people.

Originally posted by jcs:
I think he's more a "contested catch" specialist than a separator on the deep ball. He's probably got the biggest wingspan of any WR in the league combined with his 6-5 frame and his pure physicality. He's not beating people off the line but dragging them with him into the end zone. Personally I would call Jaxon Smith-Njigba or DeVonta Smith deep ball separators those who can run away from people.

He has one of the highest separation win rates in the NFL, he's also only behind T Hill over the past 8 yrs with the most 20+ yard receptions.

Folks label him a contestant catch receiver because he's big, there's highlights of him doing it and he's actually good at that as well….but he's a really good route runner.

Originally posted by jcs:
I think he's more a "contested catch" specialist than a separator on the deep ball. He's probably got the biggest wingspan of any WR in the league combined with his 6-5 frame and his pure physicality. He's not beating people off the line but dragging them with him into the end zone. Personally I would call Jaxon Smith-Njigba or DeVonta Smith deep ball separators those who can run away from people.

Separation is about creating space, and speed isn't the only way to do that. Mike Evans excels at separating vertically by winning his release and then stacking DBs. Once he's got them stacked, there isn't a DB in the league that's going regain leverage against 6-5, 230. Also, the guy isn't slow by any means.

Most of the 4.3 guys are just fast. Not very big and they can struggle getting off the line and seperating from defenders. Then if they get doubled they arent big enough to contest the ball. Every year we see these fast guys get drafted and most end up as backups because they just aren't good route runners. In college they could run away from the mediocre defenders but in the NFL the DBs are often as fast or faster than they are,

I love what he said about wanting to be here and to play with Purdy. Guy seems like the polar opposite of Aiyuk in his demeanor and approach. Both him and Osa are strong character guys and locker room leader types.

Originally posted by Heroism:
Separation is about creating space, and speed isn't the only way to do that. Mike Evans excels at separating vertically by winning his release and then stacking DBs. Once he's got them stacked, there isn't a DB in the league that's going regain leverage against 6-5, 230. Also, the guy isn't slow by any means.

A lot of people see him as this vertical catch guy that's just big and out jumps everyone but you don't have as much success as he's had without being able to win in a variety of ways, he's a very underrated route runner.

Evans is just a pro through and through and I never thought there was a chance at him being a 49er but man is it exciting.

Of course it was George that sold him on the Niners. That dude is a lifer!