Marvin49":yh4wmsth said:
Might want to actually look at who was playing WR too.
SPOILER: Most of them not on the team anymore because they couldn't get open to save their lives.
This isn't really the direction you want to go in. Russell Wilson's first regular season game, (week one of his rookie season, @ Arizona) he completed five passes to Braylon Edwards, cut a few weeks later. Next highest # of passes that game completed to Sidney Rice, four passes. Kaepernick's first game as a starter (week 11 in 2012, home vs. Bears) saw him complete six passes to Vernon Davis and then three to Michael Crabtree. After he had ridden the pine for more than a year-and-a-half and had gotten intermittent regular season game experience here and there.
Like I mentioned about 2013 though, let's take a look, I'll post the numbers anyways for the regular season:
Kaepernick's # of different receivers he completed a pass to per game: 5.50
Wilson's # of different receivers he completed a pass to per game: 6.81
Kaepernick's total # of pass attempts: 416
Wilson's total # of pass attempts: 407
Kaepernick's total # of completed passes: 243
Wilson's total # of completed passes: 257
Our top WR, Percy Harvin, played in exactly one game by the way, so don't pretend like only the 49ers had to deal with WR injuries.
Wilson averaged completing a pass to 1.31
more receivers per game than Kaepernick (a ~20% difference!) while tossing the pigskin fewer times. Also, Kaepernick had more playoff experience at that point including playing in a Super Bowl, and an extra YEAR sitting around in the league learning over Wilson, though yes he had fewer regular season starts.
Nobody can debate that Wilson is considerably better at spreading the ball around than Kaepernick.