2024 NFL draft – How a loaded WR class could help teams immediately

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz is joined by Connor Rogers of NBC Sports to breakdown the top two wideouts in the 2024 NFL draft – Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr. and LSU’s Malik Nabers – and how the depth of this year’s receiving corps will provide teams with potential starting material well into the second day of picks. Hear the full conversation on the “Zero Blitz” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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JASON FITZ: I want to start wide receiver, mostly so I can humble brag and remind the world I’m a Biletnikoff Award voter. The crazy thing is, you mentioned Marvin Harrison Jr. The most incredible stat to me is zero. And that’s the number of drops he had this year, zero. I think Nabers is every bit today as can’t miss as Marvin Harrison, Jr., is, which is stunning to say. And then I just– I always– look, I’m not comping the player. I’m just comping the value, right?

Look at what Ja’Marr Chase did for the Bengals. You cannot tell me that adding somebody like a Marvin Harrison, Jr., won’t make– like, if you buy the mocks right now, and we believe that, according to Tankathon, Arizona is picking third, if Arizona feels like they have Kyler Murray locked in and they’re happy there, my God, they add Marvin Harrison, Jr. That’s a home run. If you buy any of these mocks that have the Bears suddenly taking a quarterback at 1 and then somehow landing Marvin Harrison, Jr., that is– like, that’s the sort of combo that changes the entire trajectory of Chicago for the next 10 years.

CONNOR ROGERS: It completely does. And this is a great conversation to have because I remember I wrote a mock draft not that long ago for NBC, and I had that exact scenario. I had the Bears taking a quarterback at 1. And then they were picking fifth at the time, and Marv was gone. But I took Nabers. And a lot of Bears fans respectfully just wrote back. They’re like, oh, this is interesting. It’s not a really big wide…

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Publish date : 2023-12-22 21:50:35

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