These are boom times for NFL-bound wide receivers. The past three NFL drafts have seen a total of 17 wideouts taken in the first round (the three drafts before that: seven), and nearly half of them (seven) have been picked 12th or higher. Each year the NFL collectively acknowledges the importance of the passing game a bit more -- the last time a running back was picked higher than 24th: 2018 -- and receivers have benefited from that almost as much as edge rushers.
Incredibly, almost none of these 17 first-rounders turned out to be reaches.