Before the Dallas Cowboys and CeeDee Lamb agreed to a hefty four-year, $136 million extension on Monday, there was a lot of buzz, and some consternation, about the exploding wide receiver market — including the bookend impact of the Detroit Lions’ Amon-Ra St. Brown deal vs. the Minnesota Vikings' Justin Jefferson contract.
It was hard to go almost anywhere over the past four weeks of NFL training camps and not get some form of an opinion on the wide receiver money exploding in the offseason. Everyone has a rationale for how the league got to the point of $25 million to $35 million average per year being the new wheelhouse for good-to-great wideouts.