Seven Reasons I’m Not Buying Into the Deshaun Watson Hype Yet

6.) Talent around him

Deshaun Watson has also been surrounded by plenty of talent. Let’s start with Mike Williams, the 6’3” 225 pound stud WR. He is a giant out there and I see a lot of Alshon Jeffery and Julio Jones in him. You throw the ball anywhere close and he goes up and gets it. That can be a little dangerous in college because I watched a lot of it and two names came to mind immediately, Johnny Manziel and Mike Evans.

I think some comparisons are fair, Manziel his final year was 300/429 69.9% for 4114 yards and 37 TDs 13 INTs and Watson 388/579 67% 4593 yards 41 TDs 17 INTs. Both were Heisman finalists and loved by America. They also had one giant receiver they could rely on. Often Manziel would weasel his way out of a play and leave it up to Mike Evans to do the rest. Deshaun had that same kind of security blanket with Mike Williams.

There is a Youtube video above with some Mike Williams highlights. A highlight tape will show all the touchdowns, great catches and big plays but watch how many come on poorly thrown balls. The argument that about half were poorly thrown with a lot of them high and Williams using his big frame over the smaller corners to come down with it could be made.

When Manziel hit the NFL and lost that security blanket his accuracy plummeted to a career 57% completion percentage. Last year Watson had Charone Peake who was drafted lower than expected in the 7th round while this year he has Mike Williams, projected to be a top 10 pick, WR Artavis Scott who projects to be a midround pick, and TE Jordan Leggett who should go day two.

That is a lot of surrounding talent that he had compared to other QBs around college from a receiver standpoint. Obviously with better talent around him, it makes his life easier. Stripping him from the best core in college to one of the weakest in the NFL will be a good test to see how much of a product of a system he truly was versus his actual abilities.

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