Reggie Wayne’s Elbow Injury Opens Opportunity for T.Y. Hilton to Ascend

October 22, 2014   ·   Tyler Conway   ·   Jump to comments

When Reggie Wayne went down in the Colts' seventh game of last season, the team handed a heavy burden over to second-year receiver T.Y. Hilton. With Wayne again having gone down in the seventh game of this season—albeit to a far less severe injury, as he'll miss a game or two at most, per Colts reporter Mike Chappell (via TheIndyChannel.com)—the Colts will again turn to Hilton.
Indy will hope the results go better this time.
Hilton finished with 82 receptions for 1,083 yards as Andrew Luck's top target in 2013 but was far closer to a league-average receiver than those numbers would indicate. Football Outsiders' DVOA metric, which normalizes a player's statistics against replacement level, ranked Hilton as the 43rd-best receiver in football. Pro Football Focus' metrics (subscription required) were far kinder, ranking Hilton 18th, but the takeaways were unclear. Hilton was talented, sure, but even Colts fansites came into 2014 wondering if H...

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