Watching him in the limited fashion last season, he made some very acrobatic catches but also looked to put his body at risk on most of them. His playing style doesn’t give me confidence he can stay healthy very long. Thoughts?
Wondering if I am brad Holmes, the lions don’t really have another wr on the roster like him. A leaping red zone 50/50 guy.
Do you keep him over Raymond? Reynolds? Seems like you have to keep either Raymond or. Pimpleton.
Broken collar bone. Some may play a style that is more likely to get themselves hurt (the types of things he’s asked to do are exactly that, sometimes). I don’t think it speaks to his durability, just the sort of routes he runs.
This year, there will be more space (less dangerous).
I don’t think a broken collar bone constitutes the label “injury prone.”
I think the answer to this is massively…Inconclusive. I dont’ see him as any more/less injury prone than others, but I don’t know his college history either.
We’re deep at WR, and we can show a lot of looks against teams. There are definitely weeks where Cephus will present matchup problems. Mitchell can likely do a lot of similar things to Cephus…just love that.
I can see Cephus, SunGod, Mitchell, and even Swift (possibly even igvobweek-eh) showing up in the slot.
Could also see Cephus lining up at WR2 in scenarios (like teams with undersized DB that play far off the LOS, and we need 2 or 3 yards to get a first down). Just high probability of his size and physicality.
We keep Cephus, for sure. He’s got a nice skillset that adds to the mix, seems to be a good attitude, a good worker…and he’s earned his spot.
to me it’s too early to judge that or much anything else, we played with a skeleton crew last season. Cephus played a bit before his injury, but that isn’t a very long timeline to say if he’s durable or injury prone.
I hope this doesn’t come off as insensitive, but at this point it doesn’t really matter and that is how it needs to be.
Cephus is at best a WR3-WR4 on a really good team…. I can’t see him leaking above where Jamo, Chark or ASB are expected to be, not would I necessarily bet on him over Reynolds…
What I can say is that Chark, ASB, Cephus… or ASB, Jamo, Chark… or Jamo, Charl, and Reynolds…. He’ll even ASB, Reynolds and Cephus is worlds above what we started last year with….
We went .500 with Reynolds, ASB, and Raymond… though Goff missed some, Reynolds missed one, and Hock missed most of those….
Jamo- ASB
Chark- Reynolds
ASB - Cephus
Reynolds- Raymond
Cephus- Hodge?
Raymond- Benson?
Literally look at our top 6 vs last year! Then consider we never even had our sad ass top 3 play together once.
The ASB from the 2nd half of last year, Jamo, and Chark gives us a more improved WR unit than any other team likely improved any other unit.
I liked him at Wisconsin and a solid selection in the fifth round. One of the few selections from the past administration that has legs.
I think the battle is going to be between Cephus and Benson. Remember, they inherited Cephus, then he got hurt and went on IR. They traded pick(s) for Benson and said it’s more for the future than immediate with him. I like Cephus and Benson because he cost us beans has been disappointing. But they are different players. Cephus is the more bigger bodied guy who uses his body well and had great hand strength with great hops. Benson is more the acrobat, leaner more explosive, athletic, quicker, faster. I think it’s Benson who has the edge due to investment and traits that this staff has seem to believe in. I think it’s:
Chark
Reynolds
St.Brown
Jamo
Raymond
Benson
FWIW
I realize it’s difficult to learn a new playbook being traded at the end of training camp. But, Benson barely played all season even after Cephus got hurt. Benson was a healthy inactive many weeks. The Lions chose to go with Raymond ahead of him. When Cephus was on the field, Goff actually seemed to have a connection with him. That’s going to be a real factor when it comes to making the team and playing time. My money is on Cephus over Benson.
Cephus last year played 212 snaps on offense. 15 catches - 204 yards - 2 TD’s
Benson last year played 279 snaps on offense. 10 catches - 103 yards - 0 TD’s
I could see it going either way and I do like Cephus personally. I liked him as a prospect and thought he was a steal in the 5th round. Meanwhile Benson was an UDFA. But… Beans + Much better RAS + This Staff Acquired = Benson. We’ll see.
Yea hopefully Benson shows big improvement and makes it interesting. But, we didn’t give up much for Benson. It ended up being our 5th rounder for Denver’s 6th rounder and Benson.
That should mean nothing with these guys
So far anyway, they’ve walked that talk
I like Cepheus but these guys know better what they want in a WR room
I’ve heard marijuana makes collar bones brittle
Oh what could have been with Rogers!
Are either of them tradable for decent beans?
Gonna be fun, when we are getting to the portion of the program where we are cutting good players! Yeeesss!!!
We could end up releasing a pretty decent CB, WR, and/or DE this year. Not a superstar, but a serviceable backup. In the past, “serviceable backups” were starters.
Those first 4 weeks with that og collar bone he looked well on his way. Two collar bones later and he’s sitting passed out drunk at Grand River and Beck. Love this team 
Likely no beans to be had.
I agree right now the 4 an 5 spots are between him an Reynolds.
Cephus is way better than the anti think. He is a strong nightmare out of the slot strong good size an hard to handle.
Now I am not saying he is Jerry Rice but when some on here say he is not fast Rice proves that idea wrong. Its same posters who dislike him were also didn’t like the trade for Benson , I recall an some still complain.
Benson is more like Reynolds not Cephus . Cephus is hard to cover an when you watch him close he runs past coverage when he has to but overal is hard to cover.
I can see Williams starting season on pup, we will know come camp.
Many thing Pimpleton will make roster he also returns like Raymond. Camp will show if any rookie WR make it ,I still think the 6 are Chark Reynolds St.Brown Jamo Cephus Raymond
Just so you know Rice did run a famously slow 40 — 4.71 seconds — at the 1985 combine, which allowed the San Francisco 49ers to draft the future Hall of Famer
The top 4 of Jamo, ARSB, DJ, and JReynolds are making the team. You can book it barring injury.
The trio of Cephus/Benson/Raymond probably all make it as Jamo has a decent chance of starting the year on PUP. Maybe someone could step up and surprise…but the WR room looks pretty set to me.
Now if Jamo is ready to go from the jump, that bottom 3 is battling for 2 spots. Regardless, WR5 & 6 rarely see the field. I don’t expect much of anything from outside the top 4 unless injuries occur.
You forgot Kalif Raymond. He had 600 yards and 4 TD’s last year and is a punt returner. I bet he makes the team over Benson.
Raymond. Reynolds. I think he meant Raymond, since he already listed Reynolds in the top 4.
In any case, barring injuries, the Lion may well start the season with 7 WRs including Benson on the 53 man roster, so that Jamo can practice while not playing the first couple of games.