By The Time Camp Ends, Could Kelvin Benjamin Be Giving The Title Of #1 WR To Someone Else?

[XOBlackxJokerOX]

It kinda kills me how folks think KB is some playmaker or something. He's a possession WR, nothing more. He's not getting much YAC and for all the difficult catches he can make, the simple ones give him issue. Let me know when he balls outside of garbage time. He's a number 2 WR and I've been saying it for years. He's good at times but we, as Panthers fans, have seen better.

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[Jeremy Igo]

9 minutes ago, Daeavorn said:

Shouldn't we be excited by this news? Didn't we all HATE the KB centric offense in 2014 and 2016?

From what Jeremy is saying, this means that Shula has also figured that out. There is no need for us to make KB a priority anymore. 

Bingo

[Jeremy Igo]

2017 will be about getting rid of the ball quickly. That isn't KB's specialty. I suspect a heavy load of screens and slants with the occasional long bomb to KB downfield once coverage moves up to cover CMC. 

[ncfan]

Not poorly, but no where near as dominant as years past. 
Also, Shula, Cam, and Kelvin no longer spend time at practice together away from the team running their own drills. I think that is significant. 
Looks to me like the new offense will have less emphasis on KB and more on spreading the ball around like in 2015. 

This x1000

I saw this quote in your article and got me all excited. Cam' s best season was whenever KB went down and he was forced to spread it around and not focus hard on the #1 first. The other seasons he's had Smith and KB. He focused way to much on them.

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[ncfan]

2017 will be about getting rid of the ball quickly. That isn't KB's specialty. I suspect a heavy load of screens and slants with the occasional long bomb to KB downfield once coverage moves up to cover CMC. 

Sprinkle in some quick slants to KB as well. Find it hard to see a smaller CB try to body him and shut down a quick slant to him. Was calling for them to do Funch some last year. Think him and KB would be real good at that

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[t96]

1 hour ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Looks to me like the new offense will have less emphasis on KB and more on spreading the ball around like in 2015. 

Which is ultimately what is best for the team AND KB.

[Saca312]

10 minutes ago, Daeavorn said:

Shouldn't we be excited by this news? Didn't we all HATE the KB centric offense in 2014 and 2016?

From what Jeremy is saying, this means that Shula has also figured that out. There is no need for us to make KB a priority anymore. 

That's it right here.

It's not a bad thing if he's not a WR1, or if anyone really assumes that role. I think he should be a big slot/move TE possession type receiver and he'd really help us in a productive way and fit in our offense.

Don't center the offense around KB. Spread the ball to every play-maker that we have now.

[top dawg]

People told me how crazy I was for suggesting that KB get increased possessions from the slot. 

[top dawg]

I feel you @RoaringRiot. The OP is more like propaganda (sorry, @Saca312), and less like an analytical assessment or a thoughtful opinion based on observation like I fully expected @Jeremy Igo to come out with yesterday after his KB-Funch tweet. 

If this thread, which I originally hated, hadn't been started, then we may not have gotten the clearer picture: KB is still making some plays, just not as many as in the past, and certainly not as many befitting of a so-called "number one wide receiver, but that that may be due to a higher level of corner play, a meaningless training camp occurrence, or just a natural byproduct of this offensive evolution.

[Hogmolliesmaht]

1 hour ago, Jeremy Igo said:

 

KB was tearing up JNO in 2015

 

Maybe Bradberry will be better than J-No. Anyway, if you were going to make a movie and cast the perfect type of CB to cover KB one on one, I think Bradberry would be it.

[Dunn]

6 minutes ago, Hogmolliesmaht said:

Maybe Bradberry will be better than J-No. Anyway, if you were going to make a movie and cast the perfect type of CB to cover KB one on one, I think Bradberry would be it.

IMO Bradberry was as good as Norman was last year...and was a rookie.  I can't friggin' wait for this season to start for him and Worley.

[RoaringRiot]

18 minutes ago, top dawg said:

KB is still making some plays, just not as many as in the past, and certainly not as many befitting of a so-called "number one wide receiver, but that that may be due to a higher level of corner play, a meaningless training camp occurrence, or just a natural byproduct of this offensive evolution.

This is all fair

[ncfan]

IMO Bradberry was as good as Norman was last year...and was a rookie.  I can't friggin' wait for this season to start for him and Worley.

People completely forget that it took Norman 2.5 seasons to finally do something. He was benched his 2nd season. Bradberry graded out close to the same last year as a rookie as Norman did in Washington. I'm real excited about this kid, think he is really going to blowup this year. Bradberry looked a lot like Norman did the 2nd half of the 2014 season prior to blowing up his final year in 2015

 

And with rumors going that we may see a little more man this season, it's only going to help the big physical Bradberry

 

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[Hogmolliesmaht]

Just FTR, I really don't care who is considered the #1WR, but I also don't believe KB has been as lazy as people keep claiming.