I'd say some of the issues for lack of production from Washington, other than being a rookie are as follows:
-AB, JuJu, McDonald, James all are good targets that Ben likes and there is only 1 football to go aroun
- James Conner and the Run game have been emphasized heavily in the offense
-Randy Fichtner's offense doesn't seem to favor a lot of vertical routes and that was Washington's biggest strength. The crossing routes, bubble screens and digs seem to be more drawn up for AB, JuJu and TE's.
-Washington may need to refine his ability to run the other routes in the passing tree, instead of just the 7,8 and 9
He's gonna be OK. I still thought he would be more involved by now, but really didn't know what Fichtner offense was going to be like. A lot of East-West, with blocking WR's and bubble screens like at Memphis or something more vertical like BA.