JJ Stokes
Advantages- I don’t think it can be argued that when a ball is thrown to JJ Stokes, he catches it more often than any other receiver on the roster. His size, and huge hands rarely let him drop the ball, and his experience and command at the position have taught him to run effective routes, particularly to the sideline. Stokes, because of his height advantage is almost always open for a higher pass. His experience within the system has allowed him to perfect the little aspects of his game, like working back to the quarterback, or giving the quarterback enough room to put the ball in between the sidelines and the receiver. He’s also a tremendous blocker down field.

Disadvantages - Stokes is not the fastest guy on the team, and relies on his size more than his speed to get separation. As a result, he doesn’t appear open as often and thus doesn’t see as many balls come his way. While Stokes has come up with a number of big plays in his career, he has never given the 49ers the downfield or explosive threat to take the heat off of Owens. He has certainly had his big games, but for the most part, his play is consistent and held to first down receptions at most.

Tai Streets
Advantages- Streets is fast. By far, that is his big asset to the team. His speed helps create separation, and gives the 49ers a threat down field. His speed also gets him separation which is recognized better by the quarterback as him being open. His speed also gives the 49ers a few more options in terms of the reverse pass. Streets help the 49ers offense become more vertical in its passing game, and thus the offense appears more potent. His speed, and reliability has also shown some potential to take pressure off of Terrell Owens as was seen in Owen’s first quarter touchdown against the Saints, where they chose to double team Streets as opposed to Owens.

Disadvantages - Streets biggest disadvantage is his lack of experience as a primary receiver. While running regular patterns he is fine, but he needs to improve in working back to the quarterback on ‘busted’ plays and in improvising. Streets is a fairly good downfield blocker, but isn’t as good as Stokes in this department. He also needs to work on some of the spacing in his patterns, particularly in giving the quarterback room to get the ball between him and the sideline on longer passes.