WRs In The Top 50

[Alexander]

In the past five years:

2017 - Corey Davis, Mike Williams, John Ross, Zay Jones, Chris Samuel
2016 - Corey Coleman, Will Fuller, Josh Doctson, Lequan Treadwell, Sterling Shepard, Michael Thomas
2015 - Amari Cooper, Kevin White, DeVante Parker, Nelson Agholor, Breshad Perriman, Phillip Dorsett, Devin Smith, Dorial Green-Beckham, Devin Funchess
2014 - Sammy Watkins, Mike Evans, Odell Beckham, Brandin Cooks, Kelvin Benjamin, Marqise Lee
2013 - Tavon Austin, DeAndre Hopkins, Cordarrelle Patterson, Justin Hunter, Robert Woods

Bit of a scary group to look at in some places.

By the looks of things, unless they force the pick at 19 and do not trade up in the 2nd, they will be choosing from the likes of Michael Gallup, Anthony Miller, Dante Pettis and D.J. Chark. This is assuming Ridley, Sutton, Moore, Kirk and Washington go inside of their 2nd round pick.

Not that encouraging.

 

[Risen Star]

Why would drafting a WR at 19 be forcing the pick? Ridley is worth it. So is Moore.

 

[Alexander]

Why would drafting a WR at 19 be forcing the pick? Ridley is worth it. So is Moore.

It would be forcing the pick if we had a higher ranked player at another position on our board.

If the board is honest and not geared to the need, that could very well be the case.

 

[Risen Star]

That list has a lot of busts no question but also some big hits. Hopkins, Evans, Beckham and Thomas are among the best WRs in the entire league. Cook and Cooper are good. Watkins, Shephard and Fuller decent. It's too early to evaluate the 2017 class.

 

[rkell87]

Looks like Dez will be super easy to replace...

 

[RS12]

Why would drafting a WR at 19 be forcing the pick? Ridley is worth it. So is Moore.

Simple yes or no question. Do you want to draft a WR at 19, and lets assume everybody is available? I think it is the wrong move.

 

[Johnny23]

Why would drafting a WR at 19 be forcing the pick? Ridley is worth it. So is Moore.

no they're not. We will pass on better defenders we desperately need for offense yet again.

 

[Risen Star]

Simple yes or no question. Do you want to draft a WR at 19, and lets assume everybody is available? I think it is the wrong move.

Yes.

 

[CATCH17]

WRs are a waste here. It’s proven.

Get a defense.

WR will not make a big picture difference if Jason is the coach.

 

[joshjwp]

Simple yes or no question. Do you want to draft a WR at 19, and lets assume everybody is available? I think it is the wrong move.

I'm with you. The answer is absolutely not. There isn't a first round WR in this draft IMO and we have much bigger needs anway.

 

[Hardline]

Unless there is a blue chipper available at 19 on defense then there's no bigger need than LG.
And that leaves Wynn or Hernandez

 

[stilltheguru88]

I put it like this. If we take a wr at 19 Garrett is getting fired 100 percent. The only chance this team has of bailing him out is fixing that defense. So either way I don’t care.

 

[CATCH17]

In the past five years:

2017 - Corey Davis, Mike Williams, John Ross, Zay Jones, Chris Samuel
2016 - Corey Coleman, Will Fuller, Josh Doctson, Lequan Treadwell, Sterling Shepard, Michael Thomas
2015 - Amari Cooper, Kevin White, DeVante Parker, Nelson Agholor, Breshad Perriman, Phillip Dorsett, Devin Smith, Dorial Green-Beckham, Devin Funchess
2014 - Sammy Watkins, Mike Evans, Odell Beckham, Brandin Cooks, Kelvin Benjamin, Marqise Lee
2013 - Tavon Austin, DeAndre Hopkins, Cordarrelle Patterson, Justin Hunter, Robert Woods

Bit of a scary group to look at in some places.

By the looks of things, unless they force the pick at 19 and do not trade up in the 2nd, they will be choosing from the likes of Michael Gallup, Anthony Miller, Dante Pettis and D.J. Chark. This is assuming Ridley, Sutton, Moore, Kirk and Washington go inside of their 2nd round pick.

Not that encouraging.

WR is a fools gold position in the salary cap era.

Having the best QB and the best defense is what wins titles.

Having the best WR just means you have to spend less money somewhere else that can help you win a championship.

 

[stilltheguru88]

WR is a fools gold position in the salary cap era.

Having the best QB and the best defense is what wins titles.

Having the best WR just means you have to spend less money somewhere else that can help you win a championship.

Taking a wr is what a dumb team would do in Dallas position. Especially a wr that’s not going to come in day 1 and LEGITIMATELY win a starting job. People really think he’d come in and be better than Williams day 1? Lol Ridley isn’t that kind of prospect to guarantee day 1 he’s going to take someone’s job. This isn’t Alabama

 

[kskboys]

WR is a fools gold position in the salary cap era.

Having the best QB and the best defense is what wins titles.

Having the best WR just means you have to spend less money somewhere else that can help you win a championship.

I mean, it really does.

 

[CATCH17]

Taking a wr is what a dumb team would do in Dallas position. Especially a wr that’s not going to come in day 1 and warm a starting job. People really think he’d come in and be better than Williams day 1? Lol Ridley isn’t that kind of prospect to guarantee day 1 he’s going to take someone’s job. This isn’t Alabama

Other receivers in this draft will catch up to Ridley anyways. He’s an ok athlete and the things he’s good at I would just chalk up as him being more mature then the other WRs. They will catch him.

Also, I don’t care how great of a route he runs. If Janoris Jenkins knows what route he’s running 90% percent of the time he’ll run Ridleys route for him.

 

[beware_d-ware]

I hate the early round guys this year, but like a lot of the mid round guys. Sutton is raw, Ridley's overrated as heck, Kirk is OK but probably going to be overdrafted. I do like DJ Moore though.

In that next tier though, there's several guys I could see becoming starters. Gallup, Anthony Miller, Hamilton, Pettis, I think they're as good as some of the players above, but you're getting them at a 1-2 round discount.

Now Equanemous St. Brown is the biggest enigma in maybe this whole draft class. On one hand, he is all potential, no production. On the other hand, he has a godawful QB situation, and may be ready to explode in the pros Jarvis Landry/Odell Beckham style. And on a third hand, you have his insane Lavar Ball-esque upbringing that really makes you wonder how much he actually loves football or will handle adversity. He could easily be the best receiver in the draft, he could easily wash out of the league entirely, and I have no idea how likely either one of those is.

 

[morasp]

Two examples that stand out to me in that list are the Giants and Bills. I couldn't believe it when the Bills gave up so much to get Watkins and look at him now. And the Giants were going to have this group of WRs that no one could cover and look at how that turned out.

On a more positive note I do think our WR scouts have a pretty good feel for the position. Last year we were reportedly interested in JuJu Smith-Schuster and he looked like the real deal and they got him at 64.

 

[Gaede]

This whole 'WRs aren't that important' storyline that's emerged on this board is BS. Do you remember how bad our receivers were last year?

Ridley is worth 19. Moore, I'm not sure of because his routes, but he does have #1 potential

 

[Leedscowboy]

This whole 'WRs aren't that important' storyline that's emerged on this board is BS. Do you remember how bad our receivers were last year?

Ridley is worth 19. Moore, I'm not sure of because his routes, but he does have #1 potential

But its not BS though, just look over the last several drafts at 1st round WR that have failed to produce

In 2017 the 1st round WR drafted were John Ross, Corey Davis and Mike Williams who have not amounted to much, sure you could say, its takes for WR to develop and it does but Kenny Golladay was one of the better WR drafted in 17, and he went in the 3rd round, Keelan Cole was an UDFA a,d Shuster who was the best of all WR was a late 2nd round pick.

In 2016, 1st round WR were Corey Coleman, Josh Doctson and Laqaun Treadwell, only Coleman has performed of that group. Tyreek Hill was the pick of the bunch who went in the 5th.

2015 saw the likes of Amari Cooper, Kevin White, Nelson Agalhor. Dorail Green Beckham, De.vin Funcheness, only Cooper has performed out of this class.

It's not a question of WR aren't important, it's a question of you can find the talent that fits a team needs outside of round #1. The Vikings have 2 of the best young WR in Diggs and Thielin the former was a 5th round pick and the latter an UDFA, and the Pats have not had a name at WR since Moss was in NE, they get by with no names.