A prediction is, essentially, an educated guess. The guess is educated because the guesser gets to use data to inform that guess. The data is drawn from prior experience, statistics, anecdotes, and the like. What happens when that pool of data dries up due to a confluence of nearly impossible factors? With a new offense, a freshman quarterback, a shortened season, a dearth of practice reports, and a big old pile of roster churn, that’s the situation in which we find ourselves regarding the UW receiver group.
A couple decades ago, Donald Rumsfeld- who is easily one of the 100 greatest Defense Secretaries of my lifetime- made a logic soup out of known knowns and known unknowns.