WROPS projections had a rough year in 2023 — there are just no two ways about it. It wasn’t a complete washout for the receiver projections in last year’s crop of draft prospects, but Matt Landers is still on a practice squad, Antoine Green was okay for a late round rookie, and Jonathan Mingo, yeesh. Thank goodness for Dontayvion Wicks, who crushed every advanced metric as a rookie, and Kayshon Boutte, who crashed down draft boards and who appears to be bad.
Some of these players could still improve of course, and judging any NFL result after a single rookie year is foolish, but I’m not optimistic that looking back on the 2023 draft class will fill me with pride.