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The value of the wide receiver position in the NFL has been ascending for years now, and recently the college game has sent an epic class to the league seemingly every draft season. We had a loaded wideout class in 2024 that spoke to both of those points — three receivers in the top 10, seven in the first round, and 10 of the first 37 picks were receivers .
A new standard has been set for how long it takes for a receiver to produce. Rookie year explosions aren’t out of the ordinary.
So let’s rank the top five receivers strictly based on who’ll be most productive in 2024.
There is no way the Chiefs offered to trade up with the Bills — easily their stiffest competition in the AFC — for Worthy to sparingly use him as a rookie or, even less exciting, as a decoy.
And Worthy is not strictly a long-ball specialist. There were some contact-balance flashes at Texas, especially in his final season with the Longhorns when he went over 1,000 yards receiving. But Worthy represents what Patrick Mahomes has been missing the past two years — when he coincidently won the Super…
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Author : Chris Trapasso
Publish date : 2024-06-26 14:25:12
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