How Puka, Amon-Ra, Jaxon Smith-Njigba make us rethink WRs

Take a look at any wide receiver stat leaderboard for 2025, and you're going to see Puka Nacua, Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jaxon Smith-Njigba at the top. For various reasons, those three aren't the types of receivers we're used to seeing at the top of the leaderboards. Is the receiver landscape shifting? Is this small sample size theater? Is it a little of both? Is there something else at work here? Robert Mays and Matt Harmon from Yahoo Sports and Reception Perception dive deep on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
0:00 Intro
9:09 Puka Nacua
29:40 Amon-Ra St. Brown
38:15 Jaxon Smith-Njigba
47:30 What's next?

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