Parker, Agholor, Bourne, Meyers, Thornton, Nixon, Wilkerson...
Now cut two, they won't roster 7 WR's. And before you begin this exercise remember this:
Agholor is making 10 million dollars and has no contract next year. They can open a lot of cap space by trading him. He also has a solid reputation (except here) and despite his contract, he is a reasonable one year rental for a contender who has a WR get injured in preseason.
Meyer's wants a contract for next year and probably thinks he deserves close to the four years 72 million that other slot WR Christian Kirk got... and good god that's a massive overpay. Even if he thinks he doesn't deserve that much, it has to be close, the market has been set.
Also consider this... Thornton, Nixon and Wilkerson are on rookie deals... they cost next to nothing and are locked up for years. Even if they become All Pros, they still will be cheap until their rookie deals run out.
They could carry 6 WR's but probably won't, not unless at least two of them become serious contributors on special teams. A team that can only roster 53 players and only activate 48 players on game day can't have seven guys standing around doing nothing but offense, somebody has to play special teams.
Even if they have more, the most WR's they'll have on the field at a given time is 4 or 5 max... more isn't necessarily better.
I'm hearing good things about Agholor thus far too, and it depends what we can get for him, to me -- though the cap savings would be fine too. I mean, I agree, it's 6 not 7. I wouldn't make the call until all injury information is in prior to the cutdown. Somebody might get injured, or "injured," close to the end of camp.
Heres some pro-con
Agholor - pro: 10M off cap
Con: the sunk cost still pisses me off...pay for Agholor '20, get Agholor '21, when it looks like '20 might be back, trade him in '22...
Con: Trade partner gets to argue this is a sub-500 yard guy. Trade partner has you over a barrel if your motivation is getting the 10m off the books. Goodbye Agholor, hello 6th rounder or whatever.
Meyers: Pro: he's gone in a straight line in the right direction for 3 years. He is valuable to a trade partner, so might bring a higher trade value.
Con: We lose the developing talent.
Bourne: I dont know the cap/contract stuff for Bourne, not looking it up, same basic level as Meyers: reliable guy who didn't have an off year.
talent
A binky, e.g., Wilkerson: Welllllll is he good enough to lose the tried and true talent? I
think I know that Thornton sticks. It's also likely the four we usually talk about stick. (Parker, Agholor, Bourne, Meyers.) If so, room for 1 more. Also, LilJordan Humphries just never pops into these conversations.... wtf
I think whoever get the worst minor injury just got an injury promotion and gets stashed, because we need 1 more spot for wideouts at least. I think BB wants to have an unreasonable number of avail. receivers and the season is unreasonably long. Bold prediction: 2 receivers to injured reserve.