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Originally Posted by barrett
Bob is definitely right that the punishment is less at WR than RB and that plays into it, but I don't think that is the main reason for the longer career window.
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Of course it's not, every position takes fewer hits, far fewer hits than the RB position does. Bob has of course offered up what's commonly known as a red herring.
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Originally Posted by barrett
Andre will slow down but not in a way that keeps him from getting the best of a DB on a deep in (his best route these days). Unless injuries derail him he should perform close to this year's standard for years.
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As impress athletically as the average NFL CB is, even say a 25-year-old NFL CB, chances are he's not as impressive athletically as a 31-year-old Andre Johnson. That's why Andre is a world-class athlete, because even at his age, on average he has a margin of athletic superiority over a younger competitor. But given the correlation between age and declining athleticism that margin always continues to recede, sometimes quickly, sometimes even at an exponential rate.