Grading the 2019 Bears by position: Wide receivers

Heading into the 2019 season, the Bears WRs looked to be one of the deepest position groups on the team. How’d they grade for the season?

Anthony Miller: C-

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Did any any player have more of an up and down season than Miller? The talented second-year receiver was poised to break out this season after totaling seven touchdowns in his rookie year while battling a separated shoulder. Instead, Miller was absent from the game plan early in the season, catching four passes on eight targets for 28 yards through the first quarter of the year.

When he started to come alive in the middle of the year, he was called out for running the wrong routes when quarterbacks Mitchell Trubisky or Chase Daniel missed a throw to him. Things weren’t going well for Miller, until the second half of the season when he came alive, in part due to receiver Taylor Gabriel’s season-ending concussion.

From Week 11 through Week 15, Miller had 431 receiving yards and two touchdowns while finally establishing himself as the second option in the passing game. Miller certainly showed flashes of his potential and why he was worthy of the hype in the offseason, but his overall 2019 resume is extremely uneven and he disappeared far too many times. Considering the expectations and the results, Miller grades out as a C-.

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