Why isn't Damiere Byrd getting any play time?

[Sam Mills Fan]

Brenton Bersin has been cut and resigned this year and has no receptions for us in 2016, yet was active against Tampa Bay. Ted Ginn is dead last in the league in punt return average, has hands of stone, and makes you hold your breath every time they throw it anywhere near him. Why not give Byrd a shot?

[Toolbox]

I ask the same thing every sunday... what do they really have to lose giving him a shot back there???

[Byrdman4real]

He can take fat ass Tolbert place

[Darth Biscuit]

We went an entire game and didn't even throw it at KB... why do we need Byrd?

 

[mc52beast]

Has to wait until the season is mathematically over for us... THEN he gets playing time.

[Toolbox]

9 minutes ago, Darth Biscuit said:

We went an entire game and didn't even throw it at KB... why do we need Byrd?

 

I want to see byrd take PR/KR reps.. just to see if he can do better than ginn at least.

[Catufb85]

9 minutes ago, Darth Biscuit said:

We went an entire game and didn't even throw it at KB... why do we need Byrd?

 

I think his point was special teams but necessarily running routes.  Our special teams return units have been a dumpster fire all season.  Byrd showed serious promise in the preseason.  Speed alone was eye opening. 

What also surprises the hell out of me is, and maybe im wrong but have been to every home game and watched  every minute of away games, when was the last time we threw a running back or wide receive screen.  Something quick and simple to get the ball out of the QB's hands with all this tidal wave of a pass rush coming at Cam/DA?

 

[Davidson Deac II]

Well if we keep losing, we might start seeing a lot of the younger players.

[FootballLivesMatter]

The man can't play. What's the obsession with scrubs?

[*FreeFua*]

Byrd is the only truly shifty type WR we have. He should be getting all these screen plays that are going to Ginn and Brown. Unless Ginn and Brown are given a straight lane to the end zone neither of them are doing sh*t with a screen pass.

[top dawg]

Actually, I'd like to see Byrd, and more of Brown.  I do believe that Byrd is shiftier and outright faster, but Brown is quick.  As the third and fourth receiver (excluding Olsen), I think that they could really be useful in our passing attack. Ginn seems to be just taking up space at the moment. Funchess should have been getting those snaps as far as I'm concerned.