Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
That's my point. No way Thomas asks for a huge bag imo. I think he'd be happy with a Juju deal or lower. He's already made a lot of money and could have a great redemption story coming to KC after what he went through for two years before last season. He'd be great in the redzone and he's as crafty a route runner as Travis imo.
The only way I'd consider Thomas is for league minimum and I damn sure wouldn't even give up a 7th round pick in next year's draft for him. Before last season it was actually 3 seasons that he was completely unavailable and only played in 10/50 games. It's not like he had those 3 seasons of being hurt then came back last year and played 14+ games. He technically played in 10, but he only played in 2 snaps in week 10, so he could barely make it past half a season before ending the season on IR (again) because of a strained MCL. [Reply]
Originally Posted by mr. tegu:
From 2018 through 2022 season Williams had 30 games with snap counts under 70%. When he’s obviously not nursing something he’s in the 80-90 range. In those 30 games, 21 games under 60%, 15 under 50%, and 8 games at 0%. 37% of games under 70%. 26% of games where you really don’t know week to week how effective he’ll be.
It’s not an exaggeration to say he has injury issues that affect every season. In that span only in 2019 could you count on him playing each game. Every other season is littered with large swings in his snap count week to week.
That's what the Chargers training staff will do for your career. There is something going on with that franchise that is more than bad luck when it comes to it's medical team. They still have the doctor that shot up Tyrod Taylors lung instead of his ribs as the Head Team Physician.
I find it hard to believe that the Chargers have just had bad luck with injuries for like a fucking decade now. Gotta be more to it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
The only way I'd consider Thomas is for league minimum and I damn sure wouldn't even give up a 7th round pick in next year's draft for him. Before last season it was actually 3 seasons that he was completely unavailable and only played in 10/50 games. It's not like he had those 3 seasons of being hurt then came back last year and played 14+ games. He technically played in 10, but he only played in 2 snaps in week 10, so he could barely make it past half a season before ending the season on IR (again) because of a strained MCL.
He played seven games for 400 yards in 2020 when it was still a sixteen regular game season so he played pretty much half the season at least. Would it be a risk? Yes. But so would Mike Williams be a huge risk and I'd rather take a risk on a cheaper guy without an acl recovery timeline to deal with. [Reply]