What kind of Production are you expecting from Jimmy Graham?

[blazen2392]

I'm going to say around 850 yards 14 touchdowns.

Russell will finally have his 30+ touchdown year so we can put all this "elite" nonsense to bed.

 

[Largent80]

Points

 

[JSeahawks]

A Super Bowl win.

 

[TheHawkster]

I'd like to see some fight after Bennett and Irvin steal his lunch money in OTAS and training camp.

 

[EverydayImRusselin]

I'm going to say around 850 yards 14 touchdowns.

Russell will finally have his 30+ touchdown year so we can put all this "elite" nonsense to bed.

I think you nailed it. I don't expect 100 catches or 1300 yds but I do expect a red zone TD machine.

 

[FargoHawk]

50 catches, 800 yds, 12 TDs

 

[brimsalabim]

Just Bubble screens...

 

[Hasselbeck]

70, 1000 and 10 at a minimum

 

[original poster]

I'm going with 900 for 12.

 

[Hawkfan77]

A Super Bowl win.

This.

Don't care about his fantasy football value. I hope he helps open things up for Lynch in the run game and provides the much needed redzone boost

 

[SonicHawk]

15,000 yards, 87 touchdowns, 17 sacks.

 

[HawkFan72]

50 catches, 800 yds, 12 TDs

That's what I would say too. That's the ballpark for what is realistic in this Offense.

 

[Hawks46]

I'm thinking 60'ish catches, 850-900 yards and 11 TDs. In the regular season.

 

[bbsplitter]

Just Bubble screens...

The fact that this had me laughing as hard as I was, is not a good sign I believe...

 

[crosfam]

His stats will go down as we are a running team and not the Saints, but just the threat he poses will help the other receivers, Lynch, Russell, and even Luke Willson in two TE sets. As long as Graham is healthy (fingers crossed) he helps us win.

 

[Cartire]

Im expecting at least 12 TD's. I dont care about his yards or catches. I just want his RZ abilities. Its what we've been missing.

To many FG's in the RZ last year. This should hopefully clean that up.

 

[onanygivensunday]

I'm going with 75 catches, 1000 yards and 10 TDs in the regular season.

All realistic imo.

Last year, Richardson had 29, Harvin 22, Helfet 12, Moeaki 8, and Zach 6, That totals 77 that I could see most all of them going to Graham.

Notice that I didn't take Luke's 22 catches and allocate them to Graham.

And that I don't expect the Hawks to change their Runass ratio by much.

 

[volsunghawk]

No idea, but I certainly expect someone here to bitch about it.

 

[LoneHawkFan]

I think what we'll see with the runass ratio is that Russ will run less because he has a 6'7" target open downfield. That's an extra 2-5 passes per game that were rushes last season. That's maybe 3-4 targets to Graham just on scramble plays.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Graham averages 5/ 75...which would be 80/ 1200. Also wouldn't be a bit surprised if he went 60/ 800. I believe he'll be closer to the higher number, though. I believe he scores 12+ TDs.

I keep thinking about the PA passes, the bootlegs, the RO pass...he's going to be deadly if we use him correctly and gains Russ's confidence. I'm not so sure that our passing playbook doesn't look a lot more like 2012-13 with Sydney Rice's downfield targets (albeit from a different route tree) replaced by a much more athletic, in his prime, Jimmy Graham. I have a very hard time believing Russ doesn't go 3800/30 this season.

The bottom line is...if Graham can adjust to our style of offense, and Bevell and Carroll can implement him as effectively as possible, This makes our offense immensely hard to gameplan for, let alone flat out defend even with a great gameplan.

I believe it's reasonable to expect a lot of this to happen; I believe the coaches will learn from the past (read: Harvin mismanagement) and this will be a very, very good move for us in the long run.

 

[Sac]

Game 1: 7 catches, 123 yards 2 TDs

Game 2: 2 catches, 30 yards and .NET burning to the ground and calling for Bev's head.