I Miss Marvin Jones.

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(11-24-2017, 12:57 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Well when you put it that way...I'd probably trade Kirkpatrick and his contract for MLJ. 


Mehvin Jones has the 21st highest salary this year at WR. That's #1 money.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/average/wide-receiver/

I disagree on there not being 32 #1 WR's. Sure, a very small handful of teams are missing a legit #1, but other teams have a pair of guys that could be a #1. The Raiders with Cooper/Crabtree. The Bucs with DJax/Mike Evans. Texans with Hopkins/Fuller, and even the Ravens with Maclin/Wallace (although Flacco is hurting their numbers). 

Sure he has the 21st highest, but keep in mind you have people like Amari Cooper and Beckham Jr who are #1s but haven't been paid yet. Or Adam Theinlein who signed a relatively cheap extension after his breakout season, but not before this monster season where he became a #1. Granted there are also some #2s being paid more than Jones, likely due to being overpaid.. like Allen Hurns ($10m/yr) or the sheer stupidity of the Tavon Austin deal ($10.5m/yr) when he's not even really a good #3.

I will give you the DJax/Evans duo of #1s. That said I think Crabtree/Wallace/Maclin fall into the Decker/Tate/Jones category of good #2. They couldn't carry a team's WR corp as it's focal point.

Not sure why you even mentioned Will Fuller as the guy's played a season and a half, and still hasn't reached 1k career yards and is now on pace for 27 catches this season. I'm not sure I see that at all yet.


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I guess the topic really comes down to your definition of what being a #1 WR entails. I view it as "if this player was the #1 focal point of the passing attack, could they carry the load alone?"

There's probably like 16-ish of them. (I admittedly didn't count or list them to myself.)

Just like how I don't think there are 32 "starting" QBs in the league at any given time. Sure there's 32 who start games, but they're not actual starters.