You don't cut a healthy second round draft pick after 1 disappointing season. The worst NFL receivers in terms of drop rate are guys like Donnie Avery, who dropped over 16% of catchable passes thrown his way. Megatron drops over 10%, and he's still elite. Then you have guys like Anquan Boldin who have 2 drops out of 67 catchable passes (~3%). In 2012, Hill had 3 drops on 24 catchable passes, which is 12.5%, but it's not a huge sample size compared to the guys who got 60+ catchable targets. But assuming that his drop rate does stay at around 12%, you have to take the bad with the good. He can make some "circus" catches that many receivers can't, and so that counteracts his high drop rate. That's not much of a higher drop rate than Megatron has, and he's still elite, so Hill could be good even if he doesn't have soft hands. I wonder if it's possible to reduce the tendency to drop by teaching him whatever he needs to correct, and then have him practice catching 40 "easy" passes after every practice. Get Simms / McElroy to throw him 15 - 20 passes every day with nobody else around, from just 15 yards away. I doubt telling him "you don't drop balls" or "you gotta catch them!" will help one iota, but practice and repetition would help improve his muscle memory and make catching more automatic. Kind of like the way you get better at free throws in basketball is: "Okay, I'm going to take 100 free throws every single day after practice." And then eventually you get good at it, and then you can scale back the extra practice to maintain your muscle memory. If it dips, you go back to the extra work. I don't know if that's really how things work in football, but logically it seems sound to assume that this is something you could work on with extra practice.
