You can't be serious. How can you not see tge difference between somebody that had just gotten to campus a couple of months before the season to somebody that has had an entire year with the playbook, in a college S&C program, and a spring with the 1s. There is a huge difference between a redshirt and true freshman.
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People were talking about freshman. Meaning you are playing in your first season of games.
Obviously a year on campus is going to help. You're missing the point and trying to make a horrible one:
"People crack me up expecting freshman to have an immediate impact in the SEC."
Whether or not you like my example, or the other examples presented - you're wrong.
Here is the key word in this. EXPECTING. Can you hope for it? Yes, and it does happen. But it isn't the norm.
Besides Cooper, what other freshmen WRs were impact players in the SEC? Green-Beckham was the supposed number 1 WR in the country and he wasn't an impact player.
The point is that it can happen, but way more often than not, it doesn't happen.