What Should a WIDE RECEIVER ROOM Look Like in the Modern NFL?

We have long understood wide receiver as a premium position in the NFL, but the natural evolution of offenses and schemes has influenced everything—including the way you want to build out and balance your wide receiver corps. So what's the ideal way to put the pieces together in today's NFL? Matt Harmon from Yahoo Sports joins Robert Mays to fit it all into place on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.

0:00 Welcome to the show
0:49 Matt is in a box
2:22 What should your receiver group look like?
7:56 First piece of a receiver room
12:06 Building around a WR1
24:04 Impact on offense as a whole
30:30 What to surround a WR1 with
41:17 Impact of heavy personnel
46:29 Ideal skill sets for receivers in heavy personnel
54:04 Underrated skill sets for receivers
57:40 How to project a WR success in NFL
1:01:40 Changing landscape of slot receivers
1:05:34 Genuinely the biggest water bottle I've ever seen
1:05:44 Examples of properly-built receiver groups
1:09:40 Deploying pure speed

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