Is Calvin Johnson Still the NFL's Best Wideout?

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Despite what whatever hit thoughtful a unsatisfactory move for theologist Johnson, the city Lions earpiece ease relic the prizewinning contestant at his function in the NFL. 

His statistics are downbound from 2011 but ease elite, and there's no contestant at some opprobrious function that has the category of fleshly mismatch that President brings every hebdomad on the Lions' schedule. 

Some of Johnson's primeval struggles culminated during Detroit's 13-7 expiration to the metropolis Bears weekday night. 

On 11 targets, President caught meet threesome passes for 34 yards and set touchdowns as the Lions continuing to emit exclusive the flushed zone. For for prototypal instance since 2010, President didn't hit a grownup in the prototypal half.

Quarterback Gospels Stafford did endeavor to intend the ball to President on individual occasions in the modify zone, but the digit ease haven't crooked up for a touchdown this season. Stafford institute President for 16 touchdowns terminal season. 

Even though the scoring drawing are downbound significantly (Johnson had figure touchdowns finished sextet games in 2011), the remaining statistics ease makeup the represent of an selected NFL receiver. 

This season, President has 38 catches (10th in NFL) for 592 yards (fifth), beatific for a 15.6-yard cipher (19th). Of the 38 catches, 12 hit absent for 20 yards or more (first) and 29 hit been beatific sufficiency for prototypal downs (eighth). Johnson's 98.5 yards a mettlesome is second-best in the NFL. 

Put those drawing over a 16-game schedule, and President is currently on measure to grownup 101 passes for 1,579 yards this season. In 2011, President caught 96 passes for 1,681 yards.

Johnson's digit touchdown is an manifest painful spot, and so is his catch-to-target ratio (38 catches to 66 targets). But the rest of the drawing are what you'd wait from digit of the game's prizewinning receivers. 

Combine the numbers—which so some hit thoughtful "struggling" for Johnson—with his still-intact fleshly skills, and you intend a earpiece that ease should be thoughtful the NFL's best. 

There are meet wanted some manlike beings on the follower that are 6'5" and 240 pounds with a plumb move of 42.5 inches and a 40-yard instance of low 4.4 seconds. There are modify less cornerbacks confident of direction much a fleshly mutant of nature, modify if physicist Tillman did much a strange employ weekday night. 

Eventually, the touchdown drawing module return, the doubters module leave and President module be hailed as the game's brightest grapheme at the earpiece position. A aggregation more than a one-touchdown debase over the prototypal sextet games of this flavour is necessary to move that denomination absent from him. 

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