The ideal way to build a WR room in 2026

We have long understood wide receiver as a premium position in the NFL, but the natural evolution of offenses and schemes has influenced everything—including the way you want to build out and balance your wide receiver corps. So what's the ideal way to put the pieces together in today's NFL? Matt Harmon from Yahoo Sports joins Robert Mays to fit it all into place on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.

0:00 Welcome to the show
4:09 What should your receiver group look like?
9:43 First piece of a receiver room
13:53 Building around a WR1
25:51 Impact on offense as a whole
32:31 What to surround a WR1 with
43:12 Impact of heavy personnel
48:35 Ideal skill sets for receivers in heavy personnel
56:09 Underrated skill sets for receivers
59:45 How to project a WR success in NFL
1:03:07 Changing landscape of slot receivers
1:07:43 Examples of properly-built receiver groups
1:11:42 Deploying pure speed

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