Albert Wilson Film Review

by Seamus Levin

Before we start, we are going to talk about something very important to me: Ihop/Ihob... It seems like they are just rotating letters around now. The next move could be the I to an H(Hhop), or the H to an I (IIop), or the P to a d (Ihod). My personal favorite is rotating the O. If you are wondering why, it is because it doesn't mess with anything. Anyway, now that the eye rolls and snickers are out of the way, lets get to this film review.

So it's almost a general consensus that Albert Wilson in 2016 was not good. 2017 Wilson was much better, and the reason is something you can only get when you watch the film(or read this article).

So I did a film review to find this change.  For both years I took the four games where he got the most snaps* and compared them. 

So here are my receiver measurements, and what they mean:

Catches- This is pretty self-explanatory. When the receiver catches the ball. 

Drops- These are plays where the receiver should have had the ball, by all means, and just did not make or complete the catch. This does not include horrible throws by a QB, or phenomenal play by the player in coverage. 

Broken tackles (BT)- These are when the ball carrier, should have gone down with a defender, but instead finds a way to escape the tackle. 

Targets- Whenever the receiver gets the ball thrown to them. Averages and ratios are usually the only time these really come into play.

Spectacular Catches (SC)- These are catches that the receiver absolutely has no business trying to make, but still does some how. This can range from really off target passes to coming down with the ball after a giant hit that would normally knock the ball lose, and maybe some brain cells. 

Lost Boundaries (LB) - These would have been catches if the receiver would have been more sideline aware

So here are the stats for the games:

                                                            Catches      Drops           BT          Targets          SC        LB

                Week 1                                    3                 1                0                4                 1           0

                Week 4                                    5                 3                0                8                 0           0

2016        Week 10                                  4                 2                3                6                 0           0

                Week 12                                  2                 3                0                6                 0           1

                Total for games                     14                 9                3              24                 1           1

                Week 12                                  3                 3                2                6                 0           0 

                Week 14                                  5                 1                4                6                 1           0

2017        Week 15                                  1                 0                3                1                 0           0

                Week 16                                  4                 1                5                5                 0           0

                Total for games                     13                 5              14              18                 1           0

   Stats that stick out

     So the biggest difference with just an eye ball look at the stats is the number of tackles broken. He went from 3 in 2016 to 14 in 2017. He more than quadrupled his amount of broken tackles in 4 games! That adds so much more yardage than just going down with the first defender every time. So much that it almost doubled his yards per catch average(YPCA) for the whole year! He went from an 8.5 YPCA to a 13.1YPCA. That is the difference of almost 5 yards! It also puts him among the top in that category this year with the leader being Julio Jones with an impressive 16.4 YPCA. 

    

A Little Deeper Look

    The other thing that sticks out is that Wilson almost did more with less. In 2016 he had 24 targets and 14 catches. In 2017 he had 6 fewer targets (18 for those that don't want to do math) and still had 13 catches. In fact his catch rate increased 6% in 2017 (from 66% in 2016 to 72% in 2017). That also put him in the top 10 with catch percentage in these 4 games. The top 10 had a 71% to 77% catch average. 

Final Thoughts 

  All in all this season, Wilson had more focus and grit than in previous years. He used every opportunity he was given to show his talent and importance to the team. This also confirms former player Shawn Barber's Theory, the contract year is always the best year. 

Side Notes 

   Training camp has officially started up and exciting things have already started happening, so be sure to try and make it out to that.

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                                   * The number of snaps is not dictated by the amount of targets the receiver got.