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Late for Work 3/14: Wide Receiver Market Goes Bananas! Grades and Reaction to Ravens' Signings

Wide Receiver Market Goes Bananas, Pricing Ravens Out of Top Options

The last 24 hours were a money-grabbing blur.

Technically the new league year hasn’t even begun, but that didn’t stop NFL wide receivers from getting paaaaaaaaaid.

Some would argue they were overpaid – even one of the Ravens’ wide receiver signings (more below).

“Somebody needs to cut off the wide receiver market and call it a cab,” wrote ProFootballTalk.com’s (PFT) Darin Gantt. “[T]he market for pass-catchers has gone bananas today, with players coming off injury or with middling statistics getting lucrative deals.