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Originally Posted by skinsguy
Eh, I don't pay a lot of attention to that. It's hard to gauge how and why those receivers dropped those passes. Since the NFL is a quarterback driven league nowdays, you're going to have more passing attempts, which will lead to more drops, more catches, more yards after the catch (hopefully anyway) and ultimately more TD catches. The yards after the catch and the TDs are the things I'm most concerned about.
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I am going to guess that in order for something to be counted as a drop, it has to hit the receiver's hand. While the way the QB throws the ball can certainly lead to the WR dropping the ball, I would say that this is a good assessment of how reliable a wideout is at holding on to the ball.