Adam Humphries had 10 more receptions yesterday. Will be interesting to see how much interest, if any, there is in him on the free agent market this coming offseason. The announcers were joking yesterday about the Patriots signing him and turning him into a hundred catch receiver, which is a joke based on the racist truth that only the Patriots and Vikings treat White receivers semi-fairly.
Humphries has been written off every year as the odd man out on Tampa's receiving crew, especially this year with Chris Godwin supposed to emerge, along with the already established Mike Evans and Desean Jackson, leaving Humphries as a backup if not outright cut. But unsurprisingly Jackson was hurt a fair amount of the time, and Godwin's chance to shine as the starter alongside Evans for a few late season games was a colossal flop. Meantime Humphries just continued to do what he always does, produce at a consistently strong level when given playing time. He's finally receiving some long overdue respect (the typical prolonged process of racial apprenticeship and media mocking just about all White receivers have to go through), so what kind of respect he gets in the free agent market will be telling as to whether or not White receivers continue to make very small, incremental gains in the NFL.