2022 Official Bolts Draft Superthread

[Fouts2herbert]

To those who don't think the Chargers have good WRs - think again, it's one of the deepest, if not the deepest, corps of WRs in the league. Staley obviously believes so to - not a single player drafted is a WR and there's only one WR among the undrafted signees.

Of the guys that were on the practice squad last year, I like moore, and I’m curious as hell to see Ffrench in preseason if for no other reason than our WR coach loves the kid and coached him at pitt. I want to see if he's actually as electric, explosive, and fast as Chris Beatty says he is…

I’m also curious to see why they’ve kept reed around…most everyone nationwide talks about how good our receivers are except charger fans, LOL!

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

My only concern with our receiver room is Age and injury. Our two best receivers are 28 and 30 and after them it's Palmer and Guyton. So tell me again how deep we are? The starting four are great but we are not deep.

[Fouts2herbert]

We were in a good spot before the draft, and now we are in a better spot. Line em up and see what happens on this offensive line. If Salyer can become a starter as a guard then maybe Fieler to RT can happen.

The biggest improvement has to have been all the defense we added. If we can get off the field on third down more often than last year, good things will happen.

It made sense before but makes even more sense to kick feiler out to RT now. I just don’t think it’s going to happen this year. Maybe next year…someone in the FO is hell bent on giving pipkins a shot at RT starting job and I don’t think it’s TT because he doesn’t have the power to dictate to the HC…

[blueman]

My only concern with our receiver room is Age and injury. Our two best receivers are 28 and 30 and after them it's Palmer and Guyton. So tell me again how deep we are? The starting four are great but we are not deep.

I’m hoping a better running game decreases the number of third and longs our WRs need to bail us out on. Want more wins, will sacrifice 1000 yard seasons to get them lol.

[blueman]

It made sense before but makes even more sense to kick feiler out to RT now. I just don’t think it’s going to happen this year. Maybe next year…someone in the FO is hell bent on giving pipkins a shot at RT starting job and I don’t think it’s TT because he doesn’t have the power to dictate to the HC…

Staley is mysterious like that. Last year, Norton; this year, Pip?

[Fouts2herbert]

My only concern with our receiver room is Age and injury. Our two best receivers are 28 and 30 and after them it's Palmer and Guyton. So tell me again how deep we are? The starting four are great but we are not deep.

You like the top 4 correct? How many WRs did you have in mind for the roster? They carried 5 last year and they might carry a sixth this year with carter primarily being a kicking game specialist and a part time WR in the slot. How many WRs should they carry in your opinion?

[Boltjolt]

It made sense before but makes even more sense to kick feiler out to RT now. I just don’t think it’s going to happen this year. Maybe next year…someone in the FO is hell bent on giving pipkins a shot at RT starting job and I don’t think it’s TT because he doesn’t have the power to dictate to the HC…

And why not? They coach him every day and he showed something in the 2 games he started last season and iirc he played 1 of those at LT and 1 at RT.
Pip was terrible in preseason but looked much better in those starts...and he is still cheap.

We were all bitching about Murray last season and come to find out he had 2 bad ankles and needed surgery.

I guess we should trust our staff more.

[Steve]

Yep, very glad we drafted like 4 guys to help with that.

But - when you inevitably get into one of those situations, is it wrong to want to have better than a 50/50 chance to win it? That’s where we’re at without significant help from complimentary players/Palmer’s development. MWill on the field will always give me hope, he had three of those game-winning TD catch’s last year, why I was stumping for the team to sign him long term. But like you say, teams can take away one guy pretty effectively…

I don't think the receivers we had were what were losing the game for us by not making plays. Certainly, better receivers make more plays and potentially keep us out of 1-score games, but so could a lot of other situations.

Wk 1 - Mike Williams did have a game-winning score in week 1 (Washington) 20-16
Wk 2 - lost a close game in but WR wouldn't make any D since Dallas ran out the clock before kicking a FG 20-17
Wk 3 - Mike Williams won the game with a late score in KC #1 30-24
Wk 4 - Ekeler scored late in a blowout in Raiders #1 28-14
Wk 5 - Ekeler scored the game-winner vs Browns 47-42
Wk 6 - Blown out by Ravens 34-6
Wk 7 - Bye
Wk 8 - Lost on int vs NE, followed by FG, leaving us 10 pts down with 2:19 ish - Palmer scored a late TD to get within 3.
Wk 9 - Drove length of the field to kick game-winning FG vs Philly 27-24
Wk 10 - Down 10 points in the 4th, we scored a FG with 4:36 left and didn't get the ball back vs Minn - 27-20
Wk 11 - Mike Williams game-winning TD vs Pitt 41-37
Wk 12 - Broncos 1 lost 28-13
Wk 13 - Beat Cinci 41-22
Wk 14 - Beat Giants 37-21
Wk 15 -Allowed late TD and then gave up TD in overtime to Kelce KC#2 34-28
Wk 16 - Got controlled by Hst 41-29
Wk 17 - Beat Den 34-13
Wk 18 - LV controlled the clock and beat us on the final drive 35-32

We lost 4 games this season where the other team didn't give us a chance to win were vs LV #2, Minn, NE, and Dallas. In all of those games, they played keep away and prevented us from having the ball late in the game, denying the O the chance to win.

The other 4 games we lost (Ravens, Den #1, Hst, and KC), we just lost control of the game and got blown away (I consider KC#2 that kind of game). At least IMHO, WR play wouldn't have really helped, although I do think controlling the LOS would have helped in all of them.

[Velo]

My only concern with our receiver room is Age and injury. Our two best receivers are 28 and 30 and after them it's Palmer and Guyton. So tell me again how deep we are? The starting four are great but we are not deep.

30 and 28 are not old for NFL WRs. Palmer is going to the No. 3 guy, he had a good rookie season and he's going to be even better this season. Guyton is No. 4, or 5, if you factor in the fact that Ekeler is really the No. 3 receiver. Please try and find another 4 or 5 WR on any NFL roster who does what Guyton does. Go ahead - you won't find a better 4 or 5 guy better than Guyton. DeAndre Carter is at the bottom of the depth chart. He had 24 catches for 300 yds and three scores last season with Taylor Heinicke at QB. You won't find another WR corps with as much depth on any other NFL roster, where the guys at the very bottom of the depth chart produce like both Guyton and Carter.

[Boltjolt]

30 and 28 are not old for NFL WRs. Palmer is going to the No. 3 guy, he had a good rookie season and he's going to be even better this season. Guyton is No. 4, or 5, if you factor in the fact that Ekeler is really the No. 3 receiver. Please try and find another 4 or 5 WR on any NFL roster who does what Guyton does. Go ahead - you won't find a better 4 or 5 guy better than Guyton. DeAndre Carter is at the bottom of the depth chart. He had 24 catches for 300 yds and three scores last season with Taylor Heinicke at QB. You won't find another WR corps with as much depth on any other NFL roster, where the guys at the very bottom of the depth chart produce like both Guyton and Carter.

First of all Guyton was our #3 WR last year and had 31 receptions.
Probably will have less next year being #4.

Im not discarding what he has done but to name some, Pittsburgh, TB, Buffalo and GB had better #3's off the top of my head. Probably Cincinnati as well.
Lots of recievers drafted, teams getting deeper

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

As I said before I like Palmer and wanted to see a development wr to compete with Guyton. It's about upgrading the talent of our #4 and 5 revieves not having 7 to go through the season with. Name the top five Rams wide receivers last year?

[Xenos]

My only concern with our receiver room is Age and injury. Our two best receivers are 28 and 30 and after them it's Palmer and Guyton. So tell me again how deep we are? The starting four are great but we are not deep.

Unfortunately you can say that about every important position on this team. At least we have some depth at the WR position. There’s barely any at Edge or CB.