Help is coming, Andre (maybe).
Andre Johnson is injury prone (he missed 12 games between 2010 and 2011), and Andre Johnson isn’t young (he’ll turn 32 this summer). But Andre Johnson is also still quite fast, and generally quite skilled (112 catches for 1,598 yards in 2012).
He’s also still so utterly alone. Cold, and alone.
The Texans haven’t invested a first- or second-round pick in a wide receiver since they made Johnson the third overall pick in 2003. Just beyond that, third-round picks have tried to be an adequate complement across from Johnson, with Jacoby Jones doing sort of alright, but in both Houston and now Baltimore his moments of brilliance have mostly come as a kick returner. There was hope that an answer to the ancient complementary No. 2 receiver riddle was found last spring when DeVier Posey was selected. Then nature corrected its course, and he ripped apart his Achilles in the playoffs.
The search should intensify during the draft this year due to both that injury, and the impending departure of Kevin Walter through free agency. But how early will a receiver be targeted? And which receiver is the right fit? Those questions and more seem pretty appropriate for Rivers McCown since he writes many words over at the Battle Red Blog, and does many things with numbers for Football Outsiders.
