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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Yep, we talked about this months ago. The Chiefs, Bills, and Ravens seem to be moving one direction with WRs. The Bengals are basically doing the opposite. It will either prove to be genius or stupid. There's not much room for it to just be meh.
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We saw one instance with KC moving that direction at WR, and I’m not so sure KC wouldn’t have paid Hill his asking price if they weren’t perhaps a little worried with his legal issues, and even then it seems like they were still in the ballpark.
I’ll personally be disappointed if we see KC continue the trend and end up letting someone like Rice walk if he puts up an elite’s on the next year or 2. We had the ultimate cheat code with Kelce and paying him a TE salary to perform like a WR1. We no longer have that luxury. With all of the struggles we have on offense lately and the inability to find a successor at WR for Hill until we found Rice, if Rice puts together a 1,400 yard 10 TD type of season in 2026 I don’t think it would be wise to let him walk under this faulty idea that Mahomes will just elevate subpar talent around him.
Maybe it’s Worthy and not Rice, I wouldn’t advise paying both but you can’t just have a constant revolving door at WR every year. We need some consistency there and at least one elite target.