The National Football League is a reactive league, they say. One trend emerges and over time a counter develops. Remember that brief moment in time some actually thought a full-time Wildcat offense might actually be successful?
One of the current trends in today’s game, thanks to the developments we’re seeing in college, is the rise of the big, tall, athletic wide receiver. With Calvin Johnson arguably being the archetype, we saw guys like A.J. Green and Julio Jones come in more than a decade ago, followed by plenty of others from Ja’Marr Chase and D.K. Metcalf to Mike Evans, A.