Chase not Practicing

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(08-22-2024, 11:05 AM)Lucius Cincinnatus Wrote:
While Burrow is certainly harder to replace than a Chase or Higgins, you're comment about WRs "quickly becoming as fungible as RBs" seems to completely contradict how NFL teams are actually operating. 

Instead of WRs becoming "quickly fungible", it's actually the opposite. Their salaries are exploding at the highest (or 2nd highest) rate of any position which indicates that NFL front offices have the complete opposite opinion than you. 

Compare that to RB salaries, the actual fungible position, and you see little gains in contract values over the last several years. Contracts tell you what positions are fungible or not. 

Actually, it doesn't. I posted earlier about Jim Miller and Pat Kirwin having this exact conversation yesterday on "Moving the Chains." They stated that outside of about the 8-10 top receivers, teams are realizing the drafts are so deep in the WR position they can get quality receivers in 2-4 rounds. So, beyond the few "elite" receivers, the rest are being devalued as they are easily replaced, just like running backs.