WR Corps Focused On Yards After Catch

Offensively last season the Green Bay Packers topped 4,000 yards passing, good for eighth in the league. But something statistically didn't sit right with the receiving corps. The group's ranking in yards after the catch - or in other words, the extra gains the receivers add to their receptions themselves downfield - fell off dramatically from where it had been the previous two years. According to STATS, Inc., in 2006 the Packers ranked second in the NFL in yards after the catch (or YAC) with 2,161, second only to New Orleans (2,212). Then in 2007, Green Bay grabbed the top spot with 2,294 YAC, a title the receivers took tremendous pride in. The Packers were one of only three teams in the league to surpass 2,000 yards in '07, along with New Orleans and New England. But last year, the Packers fell all the way to 14th in the league with 1,656 YAC. Yards after the catch accounted for only 41 percent of the team's total passing yards, down considerably from the..