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Matthew Coller·Jul 19

"Justin Jefferson has a case for either number one, two or three, best wide receiver in the NFL.

Maybe if you said he was fourth, I'd probably be like, I can't get there. With you on fourth, Jamar Chase, you might be able to make a case for maybe coming off last season, Jackson Smith-Njigba and Puka Nacua. But there's only a few guys who are breathing his air. But you need to remember that he has more yards than anyone else by his age in NFL history. So this is a guy who has proven to be the number one spot in the NFL or at least deserving of that conversation." "I don't think anything about Justin Jefferson was different last year. I don't think he ran his routes different. I don't think he caught the ball different. He had a few drops that you remember because of how hard it was to throw the ball. But then you look at the drop data and it's no different than in years past. It's really about opportunities." "The amount of on target passes that went to Justin Jefferson just abysmal last year. I mean, JJ McCarthy had the second lowest completion percentage over expected last year in the entire NFL, which tells you just how much was left on the table. And it became almost like a catcher who can't throw the ball back to the pitcher. Like there was almost a yips to it when it came to JJ McCarthy getting him the football." "If you can do that at all. With Justin Jefferson, you don't even have to be perfectly on target. You're just, just generally on target. Then Justin Jefferson is going to get it. Kevin O’Connell deserves credit for this too, because he has been absolutely brilliant at drawing up route combinations that get Justin Jefferson open. And that is very hard to do with so much attention. And when you watch the film, you don’t see receivers being guarded like this in the NFL. It's almost, it's not quite when Julio Jones had two guys line up over him or Megatron had that, but it's almost like that. I mean, there are sometimes where there are three guys, like, circling him to try to stop him, which has helped Jordan Addison in the past." "He's the same Justin Jefferson as always. He's absolutely in his prime. It's just that the quarterback has to execute."

Will McFadden·Jul 30

"Being a Z, motion into it, inserting, doing some of the dirty work. But at the same time, he's at about 90% of our passing game, either one or two or at least three on just about most of our concepts. So, you're talking about a guy that's getting a lot of high volume in both the run and the pass game" London played 90% of his team's offensive snaps in 2024, more than any other non-lineman on the team. Typically, players of London's stature occupy the position of X receiver in an offense, the same role once held by Julio Jones and Roddy White in Atlanta. Smaller, and typically more agile receivers, like Calvin Ridley or Harry Douglas, would play Z receiver.