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Lamar Thomas has Cranked up the Competition in the Wide Receiver Room

“We’re competing all day,” Garrett ‘Juice’ Johnson said. “It makes you want to continue to get better to get to that next step.”

It’s not an abstract next step. It’s the next step toward the front of the wide receivers’ meeting room.

“Right now he (Lamar Thomas) has the starters sitting in the front row of our meeting room. He made it very clear that nobody’s spot is guaranteed,” Jeff Badet said. According to Badet, Thomas’ message to the players sitting in the back is very clear: “It’s your job to take their seat. It’s your job to come sit in the front.