Jerry Jeudy‘s plane has waited on the runway long enough.
After an injury cost him six games last season, the third-year WR is ready to take off. And Sports Illustrated’s Conor Orr agrees. He pegs Jeudy as a candidate to make his first Pro Bowl this season.
“Watch Jeudy’s first career touchdown, which came against the Jets in 2020,” Orr wrote on NFL.com. “This was a deep ball thrown by Brett Rypien into the upper-chest area of an opposing defender. Jeudy cared not, swiped it over the defender’s back and walked into the end zone. Imagine this kind of ball-tracking ability put to good use, with one of the best deep-ball quarterbacks of the modern NFL era.
“While Jeudy profiles differently than some of Russell Wilson’s recent, best targets, Jeudy’s route tree was similar to that of Tyler Lockett, especially the routes Lockett ran toward the end of last season.”
In his first game of Year 2 with Teddy Bridgewater, Jeudy totaled six receptions on seven targets for 72 yards in roughly a half of football. That was before injury and with Bridgewater. It’s wheels up for Jeudy this season with Russell Wilson in town.
Elsewhere in Jeudy news, after having charges against him dismissed, the WR called his shot on a Year 3 breakout, saying, “I know the player I could be.” The league’s official website agrees, pegging Jeudy and Wilson as the second-best new QB-WR duo. Check out the rest of Orr’s list.
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