As much as I want to believe IWon.com's stats, I'll wait for a legitimate accounting. DB dropped passes last season, that I'll agree to. Too many passes, when he needed to catch them. So did Frank Sanders, last year and in 2001. Lots of WRs drop passes. Especially WRs who constantly get double or triple covered, with safties looking to kill them after the catch. It's less excusable for WRs who have no one near them (at least three yards) in a zone, and it bouces off their outstreched palms. I was there; I saw it happen. To McAddley.
It's really hard to compare DB and McAddley, because they're in totally different classes as players, but I hold DB's drops against him, as I hold McAddley's. I also hold McAddley's lack of skill against him, as I credit DB's presence of it towards his account. Compare DB's rookie year vs. McAddley's rookie year, and there's no comparison.
I think that McAddley will be released this offseason or placed back on the practice squad, because I think there are five to seven better WRs on the roster than him, or there will be (Boldin, Johnson, Foster, Gilmore, Savage, and probably a post-June 1 addition like Muhammad (who PFW is saying is in the Card's sights come June 1 [Krang: See, this is called "legitimate citing of sources"]). McAddley probably won't return, so I wouldn't be surprised if we kept Kasper instead of him, so that the Republic can do another "Hi, my name is what?" fluff piece on him come October or November. I'm not sure if I agree with it, but I wouldn't be surprised.