Sixty-six catches? 888 yards? Four touchdowns? I don't know what the conversion rate of production expected from the targets of a ready-to-retire Jay Cutler, Brian Hoyer, and Matt Barkley to production expected from the targets of Drew Brees, but I'm fairly certain it favors both the Saints and Cameron Meredith pretty damn heavily. Obviously it's always a risk to make a multi-year offer to a skill position player coming off season-ending ACL tear, but that ACL tear is what's likely to have made available a 25 year old wide receiver with unteachable size and untapped potential. The former college quarterback will be nearly a year removed from surgery come training camp and has already proved his worth at a position in which he should only become more polished. There's no one I'd rather have doing that polishing than Curtis Johnson, and - given the familiarity - I would imagine this sheet got his stamp of approval prior to being offered. Touchdown Teddy Ginn isn't getting any younger and his forever suspect hands aren't what anyone would consider a safety valve. The curious case of Willie Snead still remains unsolved. The Saints needed another reliable pass catcher, and if the Bears don't end up matching then they will have attained someone who did a more than admirable job filling in as a number one option when called upon. He obviously wouldn't be expected to stack up 100 yard games in New Orleans, but surely one of the best play-callers in the sport could find a consistent role for someone that was able to defy organizational incompetence to do just that in Chicago. Simply put, other than the Bears letting him walk due to a price tag that's fitting of the type of complementary weapon he can become, not much else would have to go right to envision a scenario where Cameron Meredith reliably fills the role of taking pressure off Michael Thomas come third down next season. In no more than five days we'll see if the exit door gets left open for him to do so.
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