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NFL draft winners and losers: Demand in WRs is at an all-time high

It's a good time to be a receiver.

There is a land rush to get receivers, which became very clear over the first two days of the NFL draft. Star receivers are being given enormous second contracts, causing some teams to make trades they don't want to make. To get ahead of paying a receiver $25 million per year, plenty of teams are hoping to hit one in the draft.

Or teams looked at the 2021 Cincinnati Bengals, who drafted Ja'Marr Chase fifth overall when they already had two good receivers, and realized there's no such thing as too many receivers in the modern NFL.