Frankenstein WR: The Beginning

[LegendX]

I hope this can be a fun and active exercise. I'm bored and I think this can make for a good discussion. For once, I hope the majority of us can take this seriously - and I know by saying that, that's just setting this up for nonsense and trolling. This is an exercise to create the best Wide Receiver, picking certain skills from the best Wide Receivers to create the "Frankenstein WR" with a perfect skill-set - this idea is inspired by an article written by BlaqOptic on Bleacherreport a few years ago.

The best way to go about this I believe is people nominating traits/skills/abilities and then nominating players to be voted for for those that posses the best of those traits.


Skill-set:

• Hands
• Route Running
• Finding Holes in the Zone
• "In-Traffic" Ability
• Big Play Ability
• Ability After the Catch
• Understanding of Xs & Os
• Run Blocking

I'm sure we will add more to the skill-set, but for now this gives everybody a general idea of what we're looking for, and we can elaborate on each skill to clarify the needs. This list above I borrowed from Optic's article.


The Process

Start with with a skill or trait, then nominate players to vote for, I think 5 or so is a satisfactory number of players to choose from, once the players are determined we will then vote, and to keep this from dragging on or getting stale we will leave the voting open for about 24 hours. However, a receiver can only be picked twice, I understand that this could leave us with picking an inferior player but this is to prevent the "Frankenstein" WR of having too many traits from the same receiver, it wouldn't be much of a Frankenstein if we allowed that - so vote wisely.

Anyway, that's about it for now, I'm sure more details will appear as this gets started. Hopefully this will be active and we can get this rolling.

[lolollort]

Calvin Johnson.

/end

[alexander_37]

Hands Fitz
Route Running Wayne
Finding Holes in the Zone Welker
"In-Traffic" Ability Boldin
Big Play Ability Calvin Johnson
Ability After the Catch Marhsall
Understanding of Xs & Os Fitz
Run Blocking Golden Tate

[Ramon Nivar]

Hands Larry Fitzgerald
Route Running Reggie Wayne
Finding Holes in the Zone Wes Welker
"In-Traffic" Ability Calvin Johnson
Big Play Ability A.J. Green
Ability After the Catch Percy Harvin
Understanding of Xs & Os Reggie Wayne [I guess, do any of us really know this one?]
Run Blocking Roddy White

Sadly, I don't know much about receivers so who knows how accurate.

[astrosmaniac]

run blocking i'm gonna go out and say kevin walter. really the main reason he has a job

[neovenator250]

Hands Larry Fitzgerald
Route Running Reggie Wayne
Finding Holes in the Zone Wes Welker
"In-Traffic" Ability Calvin Johnson
Big Play Ability A.J. Green
Ability After the Catch Percy Harvin
Understanding of Xs & Os Reggie Wayne [I guess, do any of us really know this one?]
Run Blocking Roddy White

/thread

[Jint.]

Hands - Gabbert
Route Running - Peppers
Finding Holes in the Zone - Peppers
"In-Traffic" - Gabbert
Big Play Ability - Gabbert
Ability After the - Gabbert
Understanding of Xs & Os - Peppers
Run Blocking Golden Tate - Gabbert

[Ebbs]

Hands: Fitzgerald (I tried not to be generic but even looking at numbers could not choose anyone else.)

Route Running: Brandon Marshall

Finding Holes in the Zone: Percy Harvin.

"In-Traffic" Ability: Calvin Johnson

Big Play Ability: Vincent Jackson

Ability After the Catch: Wes Welker

Understanding of Xs & Os: Miles Austin

Run Blocking: Demaryius Thomas

[neovenator250]

I've got another piece of criteria:

Body Control: Marques Colston

[lolollort]

Hands - Gabbert
Route Running - Peppers
Finding Holes in the Zone - Peppers
"In-Traffic" - Gabbert
Big Play Ability - Gabbert
Ability After the - Gabbert
Understanding of Xs & Os - Peppers
Run Blocking Golden Tate - Gabbert

Rofllll

[PocketKings]

Acceleration/Vertical speed: Torrey Smith

[Ebbs]

Acceleration/Vertical speed: Torrey Smith

DeSean Jackson?

[PocketKings]

DeSean Jackson?

NO! GIMME TORREY!

Torrey <3

[TDjacksonville]

NO! GIMME TORREY!

Torrey <3

give me Mike Wallace.

anyways id consider put Cecil Shorts at big play threat. i mean he has the 2nd leading average yards per catch in the league and 3 catches over 50 yards

[FortDetroit]

Big play ability, people overlooking Calvin Johnson.....

27 plays of 20+ yards this year...2nd most has 21.