Welcome to the Giants Nation player profiles and projections.

And today we are looking at Theo Johnson, the 6'5-264 tight end,

24 years old out of Penn.

It was a fourth round pick who started every game last year

before breaking his foot, cutting his rookie season short by five games.

He only had 29 catches, 331 yards, one touchdown on a 67% catch rate.

We've talked about them in these player profile episodes about the cause and effect

for guys like Dary Slate and Tyrone Tracey when Daniel Jones was in the lineup.

But with Theo, it was somewhat of the opposite because I don't think anyone was more negatively affected by Daniel Jones than Theo because he just flat out and missed him more than he did any other player on the team.

And you look at Theo's first four versus last eight game splits.

Like there's some encouraging things there and we will talk about all of that.

Yeah. And I think when you talk about guys who are going to be more positively impacted by the

added element of Russell Wilson this year, I think Theo Johnson goes right up into that

conversation right down the scene is something that Russell Wilson is going to be

able to see and throw pretty well, especially because of this, the, uh, the exciting level of

length that he brings to the table at six foot six big, even by tight end standards.

Yeah, and he makes some tough catches too. You know, you, you saw that early even with Daniel Jones working up the swing. You know, you're going to run some four vertical stuff with Russell Wilson, and he's going to get some of those targets when they're, you know, covering the wide receivers over the top. I think, you know, I'm not saying Russell Wilson's not going to be, he's never used tight ends greatly, but he has used tight ends and I think he'll get more play than he did as a rookie.

But like with Theo you know his first four games of uh in the NFL I have three catches for 37 yards a 37 percent catch rate and you're like oh man he stuck but that was again I go watch the viking's game he you know he could have

he could have had he could have been like six catches you know 68 to 70 yards or whatever

and he was just miss after miss after and you miss um and then his his last eight games he had 26

catches 294 yards and one touchdown on a 74%

catch rate um you know I don't like to do the 17

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