adam81king
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No doubt our offense is more focused on getting the ball to the TE position in passing situations, but Landry just flat out isn't worth his contract. Paying a slot receiver fifteen million just isn't a smart allocation of resources. I like Landry the person and he's a solid NFL player, but he's paid like a superstar and he's never in his career given anywhere near superstar production.
If we're going to spend that kind of money at the position, I'd rather go after a guy like Chris Godwin or Allen Robinson in free agency. But I think the more likely scenario is that we use our first on a receiver this year if it's a mid to late first. If we're in the top fifteen, I'd wager EDGE may be a bigger priority given the depth in this class, at which point we'd probably use our second on a receiver.
For clarification, *I* wasn't disputing Landry being overpaid relative the production he's giving. I'm suggesting that the contract wasn't one AB acquired or gave, but instead inherited, and that our system and/or QB doesn't really use a WR1 (Stefon Diggs can confirm). I'm all for using the 1st round pick (GWilson, DLondon) or 2nd round pick (DBell) on a new WR, but I can't see him spending anywhere near $15M on the position going forward. At least not when they're maxing out at 5 targets a game.