The George Pickens trade and the pass-catcher landscape
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The George Pickens trade (mostly) brought to an end a busy offseason movement period for wide receivers. Davante Adams, D.K. Metcalf, Cooper Kupp, Stefon Diggs, Deebo Samuel, and Christian Kirk all find themselves on new teams. Ja'Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, Chris Godwin and Metcalf all signed big extensions. Ten receivers, including Travis Hunter, were selected in the first 70 picks of the NFL Draft, and reliable veterans like DeAndre Hopkins, Tyler Lockett and Josh Palmer also found new homes. What's the state of the wide receiver landscape after all that movement? Which groups improved the most? Which ones have us a bit concerned? And which ones are we sneaky excited to watch this season? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen run that full route tree on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:31.1 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:38.3 | Slight pivot for you guys today. I know I promised you yesterday on yesterday's show that we were going to be starting our lingering questions series today, hitting some of the questions we just didn't have time to answer during the regular season last year. |
| 0:49.8 | I ran into some issues accessing my film today, and we had some news to hit. |
| 0:55.2 | So slight detour. |
| 0:57.0 | We're going to talk about the George Pickens trade, what that means for the Steelers, |
| 1:01.4 | what that means for the Cowboys, chat a little bit about the Jags moving on from Gabe Davis today, |
| 1:07.4 | and then use those moves to just talk about past catching groups at large in the NFL. |
| 1:13.3 | Now that the Cowboys are improved and they've kind of filled that slot, we thought they needed to, |
| 1:18.1 | which groups are we still really worried about? |
| 1:20.7 | Which past catching groups are now the most improved now that the dust has settled for the |
| 1:25.1 | most part when it comes to receiver moves? |
| 1:27.3 | What do we think are the most impactful signings and draft picks at those past |
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