A few days before the first round of the NFL draft this week, an AFC general manager was stacking up the best player at every position when he got to the 2020 wide receiver pool. Easily the draft’s deepest talent reservoir and quite possibly the best wideout group since the league’s historic 1996 class, it felt like an unavoidably long debate was about to unfold.
Instead, the general manager said one name — with emphatic emphasis — and closed any further discussion.
“CeeDee Lamb,” he said, pronouncing the Oklahoma wide receiver as the king of a wideout class that may ultimately produce several kings.