LA Rams Tyler Higbee will blow past 1,000 receiving Yards

LA Rams tight end Tyler Higbee will blow past 1,000 receiving yards this year

The LA Rams started something at the end of the 2019 season that they are eager to resume this year. TE Tyler Higbee‘s last six games of this past NFL season was at a historical pace. Over the last six games, Higbee compiled 542 receiving yards. If you take the average of those games, it comes out to 90.3 yard-per-game.

Now let’s multiply that by 16, the number of games season, and it comes out to 1444.8 yards. To put that into perspective those yards would shatter the current tight end receiving record set by San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle at 1377 yards in 2018.

The amazing thing about his average of 90.3 yards a game over the last six weeks If you remove one poor game outlier, his average was actually over 100 yards per game.  If we take his high game average of 104.4 yards per game, his optimal season best-case average comes out to 1670.4 yards a season.

Breakout season

Higbee has never had more than his 2018 750 receiving yards in a season in the Rams uniform and before last season he averaged at or about 300 yards. He more than doubled his past season total in the final five weeks. It seems as if he is coming into his own and McVay, who was a tight ends coach in his early days has finally unraveled the mystery of how to use the tight end in his scheme.

Expect Higbee to not just have an occasional good game this season, but rather kick down that door and proclaim his arrival to eliteness. Do I expect Higbee to break Kittie’s single-season record? No. But I do expect him to break 1,000 receiving yards. I’ll even go so far as to say 1,100 yards.

Don’t make me eat my words, Higbee. It’ll be awkward to go to a printer to print out this article on a piece of paper to make it physically possible to do so. Spaghetti sounds like it would be a delicious pairing with this article though.