wide receivers

[nosejob]

9 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

This is NOT the year to look to FA for a WR. With Higgins tagged and Godwin likely headed back to Tampa, it leaves the top of the WR free agent market rather thin. The draft isn't as deep or talented as it has been in recent years. And there are a LOT of WR needy teams. Supply is low and demand is high.

 

What this translates to for me is a year where second tier WRs like Brown and Slayton are signed to larger than deserved contracts. When it comes to WR contracts next week once we see numbers of guys signed I think a lot of popular sentiment will be "dang, really wanted him but not at that price". 

I don't think Slayton will get over paid. A Gabe Davis type deal, yeah, but we can do that and with upfront money and incentives, we could get him. Done

8 hours ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:

I feel you. I think we need two honestly. A vet/proven WR who can beat man, and somebody with ludicrous speed/upside/youth (see Atwell).

First person to get that reference wins a high five. 

Iron Mike.  Slayton is my guy. Fast, affordable and looking to prove himself.

[Warriorspikes51]

DK

Shakir

Coleman

Hollins

Samuel

Kirk 

 

fun competition

 

[YoloinOhio]

5 hours ago, Mat68 said:

That doesn't sound like a first rd Wr.  How is he different then a host of other day 2 day 3 type?  Solid pro.  Wont be elite or has wr 1 potential.  

He’s projected to go in the 1st, you would just need to look up the analyst write ups.

[BuffaloBillyG]

1 hour ago, nosejob said:

I don't think Slayton will get over paid. A Gabe Davis type deal, yeah, but we can do that and with upfront money and incentives, we could get him. Done

Iron Mike.  Slayton is my guy. Fast, affordable and looking to prove himself.

I definitely think Slayton is in the "about to be overpaid" lost. Rumblings of quite a few teams in on him should drive up his price. I'd say the Gabe Davis deal is his absolute floor with potential to hit Christian Kirk money possible. We shall see 

[Solomon Grundy]

I say run it back with receivers from last season. Draft Don'te Thornton to open up the field vertically and horizontally. This guy is a natural football catcher with 9 5/8" hands and speed to burn.

[Mat68]

3 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

He’s projected to go in the 1st, you would just need to look up the analyst write ups.

I get it.  I don't understand pounding the table for him is all.  A fairly large group of guys would need to be gone before im going with him at 30.  

[Alphadawg7]

On 3/2/2025 at 7:17 AM, nuklz2594 said:

what are we going to do? imo....drafting wr in 1st round is an admission we screwed up with coleman pick. should have taken ladd. ladd and shakir would have been dynamic. so we have mack...multidimensional guy. i like him. samuels...meh, but kind of stuck with him.  cooooop....great locker room guy. i am confused on where we go from here. 

 

What?  At no point was Keon the end all be all final WR piece.  We lost 2 starters in Diggs and Davis in one offseason, you think drafting a WR in consecutive drafts means we missed on the first one?  LOL...we were always going to be adding another WR this year...always.  We only had one last year (Shakir) and added around him with some lower cost vets and a rookie because we had $31M in dead cap invested already at WR from the Diggs trade.

 

I honestly don't get how people come to these kinds of conclusions.  Cooper and Hollins are FA's...we still need to add more WR's, and we will.  It literally has nothing to do with Keon.

Edited 3 hours ago by Alphadawg7

[The Firebaugh Kid]

14 hours ago, nosejob said:

I don't think Slayton will get over paid. A Gabe Davis type deal, yeah, but we can do that and with upfront money and incentives, we could get him. Done

Iron Mike.  Slayton is my guy. Fast, affordable and looking to prove himself.

Nope, although he did say that word famously. I'm referring to Spaceballs. Love that dumb movie. 

I can get down with Slayton. 

[YoloinOhio]

11 hours ago, Mat68 said:

I get it.  I don't understand pounding the table for him is all.  A fairly large group of guys would need to be gone before im going with him at 30.  

 he likely won’t be there so it doesn’t matter. Destined for Houston at 25.

Edited 1 hour ago by YoloinOhio