The Market for NFL Wide Receivers (With Mina Kimes)
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The market for the NFL’s elite wide receivers could soon explode again, with Justin Jefferson and CeeDee Lamb both eyeing big pay days. Robert Mays connects with ESPN’s Mina Kimes to survey the current market for the NFL’s wide receiver talent, for both top and second tier players, and how it relates to the incoming wide receiver class in this year’s draft.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:20.0 | Join to me today from ESPN, one of our favorite guests here on the show. It's Mina K Show. I'm Robert Mays. Join me today from ESPN, one of our |
| 0:22.4 | favorite guests here on the show. It's Mina Kimes. I wanted to have this discussion on the show for a while, |
| 0:27.6 | just because I think that it's influenced so many different aspects of team building, and especially |
| 0:32.7 | this offseason, it feels like there are a lot of different layers to it. And I saw you, I think, |
| 0:54.6 | talking about it on Levitard show maybe a couple weeks ago. And I was like, yes, Mina is the person I want to have this discussion with because clearly she has been thinking about this as well. And that is the movement in the wide receiver market, whether that's the top of the market, the draft classes coming in, so many different areas where there's a push and a poll happening. |
| 0:55.8 | It feels like this offseason specifically, |
| 0:57.3 | there have been a lot |
| 0:58.0 | of inflection points |
| 0:59.4 | to discuss as it relates |
| 1:00.9 | to wide receiver value |
| 1:02.0 | and where you have to find |
| 1:03.0 | those guys. |
| 1:04.8 | It's something that's been |
| 1:05.8 | on my mind for, |
| 1:08.2 | I want to say |
| 1:08.7 | a couple years now, |
| 1:16.4 | really once I feel like it became clear that this trend of rookie wide receivers being awesome was not just a one or two year aberration |
| 1:23.9 | and was actually something that I feel like you could count on, right? |
| 1:27.8 | Like, we're going to talk about this rookie class and its potential to be historically good, |
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