Kingsbury raved about Deebo\u2019s competitiveness last year<\/a> when he was Washington\u2019s OC:<\/p>\n\u201cJust his mentality, how he\u2019s been since he got here, the competitive nature and every drill, every rep,\u201d Kingsbury said. \u201cHe\u2019s the first one in line on all the receiver stuff. It\u2019s been awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Deebo, he, I remember being in Arizona just the matchup issue where you don\u2019t know what personnel group they\u2019re in\u2026 That to me is the most exciting thing when it comes to game planning and finding ways to get him touches,\u201d Kingsbury said.<\/p>\n
Many are assuming that Deebo is going to return to the 49ers after one season on the Commanders, and maybe that is exactly what happens. Does that give Sean McVay even more incentive to troll Kyle Shanahan by stealing him off of the market if the price is right?<\/p>\n
Deebo Samuel caught 72 of 99 targets (a career-best 72.7% catch rate) and gained 727 yards with five touchdowns.<\/p>\n
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His days as a runner are almost over, but he did carry it 17 times for 75 yards and a touchdown. However, one of the potential issues is Deebo\u2019s three fumbles. Still he\u2019s so much different than L.A.\u2018s other receiving options, his threat as an underneath option compared to Puka is intriguing and he\u2019d be less of a waste of money than spending $10 million on Tutu Atwell.<\/p>\n
What would he cost?<\/p>\n
Given that DeAndre Hopkins was paid $5 million by the Ravens last year, could Deebo take a similar amount?<\/p>\n
Hopkins is older but he has had a 1,000-yard season much more recently than Deebo has: Deebo hasn\u2019t even had 900 yards since 2021.<\/p>\n
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If the Rams brought in Deebo on a one-year, $5 million contract, is that the worst deal they\u2019ve ever signed? It wouldn\u2019t even be in the bottom-5 for wide receivers that the Rams have signed in the last 5 years.<\/p>\n
An offense with Adams and Deebo together would have seemed crazy a couple years ago. Now it\u2019s just a matter of whether the Rams want it and if Kingsbury endorses the idea or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deebo Samuel was once the enemy, but as a free agent could the receiver be a good complement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[375,427,5430,4695,1705,7,10308,6,428,1088,424,3416,7392,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-771305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-commanders","10":"tag-davante-adams","11":"tag-deandre-hopkins","12":"tag-deebo-samuel","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-kliff-kingsbury","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers","17":"tag-puka-nacua","18":"tag-rams","19":"tag-the-rams","20":"tag-tutu-atwell","21":"tag-washington","22":"tag-washington-commanders","23":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116120656501644937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}