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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1030656" data-attributes="member: 18006">Well, I don't know if anyone's going so far as to think we're going to trade Dontavion Wicks or Bo Melton for a "magic bullet" like  Marshall Faulk or Charles Woodson. That's just not realistic.But as these players develop another year or year and a half, some of them - yeah - will settle into a sort of "regression to the mean". Looking at them last year, we saw not only how amazing they were in that moment as they grew week by week, but were also swept away by how unexpected it was. Because you didn't expect them to be that good, and because basically all we saw was progress and positive development all year. We saw no regression at all, at any poimt.But next season, we will. Some of them will fall short of the bar they set last year - and we'll notice, and be dissapointed. And then they may not look as special to us.But even assuming that some of them won't shine so brightly in 24, I think it's safe to expect that as a group, over the next couple of years we're likely to have a deeper group of promising young receivers than almost any other team in the league. None of them are going to net us a star player in a trade, but some of them may bring back a player who meets a need in an area where we're weak. And sometimes just the right player, in the right spot, at the right time is the last piece you need.</blockquote>

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