[FULL EPISODE] Rashee Rice Profile + 3 Running Back Breakdowns

**James Koh** (0:01)
We've got our Taycan is loaded and ready.

**Matt Harmon** (0:03)
Absolutely dominant on deep routes, absolutely dominant on short routes.

**James Koh** (0:07)
The boys are backbanging.

**Matt Harmon** (0:08)
Excellent separation against ManCover. This is Reception Perception The Show.

**James Koh** (0:15)
Yo, what's cracking everybody? James Koh, Matt Harmon here with you. You're listening to the Reception Perception The Show. Oh my goodness gracious. Lots to talk about today.
Again, we always talk about wide receivers, and we will talk about wide receivers, but a fresh profile drop of running backs have hit the site as well. Yours truly, me, James Koh, I've written about Ashton Jeanty, TreVeyon Henderson, and Omarion Hampton, and can't wait to get into those profiles because I tell you what, man, people are going to be, especially in New England, they're going to be mad at me when they see charts for TreVeyon Henderson. If that's the case, I don't know what is.

**Matt Harmon** (0:52)
I can't wait. Now, I really can't wait to talk about it, because I have found the TreVeyon Henderson Fantasy ADP a little skeptical.

**James Koh** (1:01)
There you go.

**Matt Harmon** (1:01)
So I have been a little skeptical about that Fantasy ADP. So I'm excited to break this down with you. It should be fun.

**James Koh** (1:09)
But regardless, we have to start the conversation with Rashee Rice there in Kansas City. He played eight games last year, 78 targets, 53 receptions, 571 yards in just those eight games, pretty good, five touchdowns, a 68% catch rate, 10.8 yards per reception. That was a three year low for Rashee Rice. What is the Reception Perception profile? Tell us about Rashee though.

**Matt Harmon** (1:37)
Honestly, I'm not like tired of talking about Rashee Rice. So there's talk about the inverse of a cell, right? You just gave a great cell for the TreVeyon Henderson thing. But yeah, honestly, a big part of this is just, I don't really have a lot.
I'm actually discouraged that this is my stance on this. I was hoping to go into charting his 2025 season and really finding some new conclusions and really saying, oh, he really took a step in this area. He improved here and now they might be able to do this, that and the other with him. But my stance on Rashee Rice just honestly really hasn't changed in the three years he's been an NFL player.
Obviously, if you're familiar with his prospect charting way back in that 2023 class, he's going to go down as one of my biggest misses if you just look at my rankings. He's somebody that I ranked extremely low, was really not into him as a prospect, and I got that evaluation wrong. A big part of that is because essentially, I evaluated him as a developmental ex-receiver. What I wrote about him at the time was that he had the frame, athleticism and the fire needed to eventually become like a useful player as a vertical ex-receiver. And he just really wasn't very far away. Obviously, very athletic, had a lot of juice to him, as I said, and the size and everything, but he really had a long, long way to go as a route runner and as a technician, as a boundary player. And then the Chiefs just essentially took all those raw traits and everything and completely flipped them, flipped it on its head in terms of his usage. He became this like short area slot based yards after catch option. And so again, he is a much more useful player than I expected him to be in a completely different role than I expected him to be playing in. And that is essentially been what he's been for three years now as a guy who has, I think, in my opinion, very obvious limitations to him as a player, but real strengths as a zone beater, as a yards after catch option, and a guy who can win on the quick hitting routes. The problem is, and this isn't necessary, and we'll expand on this and I'll kind of unpack this thought.
It's honestly less of like a Rashee Rice problem. Like those descriptions I get, it's like, this is just who he is as a player, and that's totally fine. We'll throw out some other examples of guys, you know, the player comparison tool highlights that also like I would highlight anecdotally that are similar to Rice from a Reception Perception standpoint, who have been good players for a spurt in the NFL.
So it's again, it's not necessarily like this is a Rice problem on the field, off the field. There's a lot of Rice problems. The problem is just that they, the problem is just that they really haven't developed anyone else who can do the other things. So again, my thought of why I'm kind of tired of talking about this is just that, he's been the same guy for three years, and I wish there was more to the picture because then I think we could really buy into the production, which has been incredibly impressive.