MatthewStewart

No. I'm saying that if you write off his worst season, then you should write off his best season. At which point he is an average #2 in the NFL. Or you take his entire body of work, and, in my opinion, he is still an average #2. Teams that double the oppositions #2 all day lose. Simple.

His worst "full" season is 44 REC/612 yards. His worst season is 37 REC/578 yards. I'm not sure why injuries wouldn't matter -- they do. His best seasons are also very similar to his worst ones. He has one huge outlier, whoopee. No one is saying Lee Evans is not an NFL wide-out, the point that I am making is that he is not one who is worth keying double coverage on, and, in fact, teams do not for the most part. Pittsburgh did, and they lost, bad.

NFL Teams have not spent a majority of the last decade being drawn into a Lee Evans decoy trap. Evans does not have a significant enough production history, his best seasons are a small sample and he simply does not catch enough passes for this to make sense. Pittsburgh rolled their coverage over the top toward Evans on a few occasions because Pittsburgh played horribly. They were also blown out, so perhaps this was not a particularly smart strategy. And yes, I've watched the entire game.