I just wrote another article and I hope you guys enjoy it! I predicted the stats for each 49er pass catcher and eventually went ahead and summed up what it would mean Alex Smith's stats would be: San Francisco 49ers: Predicting Performances of Each Pass Catcher in 2012 | Nachmany Football I'd love it if you guys could leave me some feedback and tell me what you think.
Considering that Gore, Hunter and James are all good pass catchers out of the backfield and get a good amount of receptions as a group, I would hardly call their contributions negligible.
U said Vernon would break double digit tds for the first time in career. He did that in 2009 with 13.