2023 NFL free agency wide receiver market: Jakobi Meyers, Odell Beckham Jr. headline best available

We’re mere weeks away from the official start of the 2023 NFL season. Teams will spend the next several months trying to upgrade their rosters so that they can potentially take down the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs next year.

Part of that process, of course, is free agency. With that in mind, we’re going to be taking a look at the players available to be signed this offseason. We’re going position by position, beginning this week on the offensive side of the ball. We’ve already covered the running backs, and will continue below with the wide receiver position. Instead of ranking the players, though, we’re going to break them down into different categories, depending on what teams might be looking for on the open market.

Before we begin, we do have three players who don’t really fit into any of the categories: Jakobi Meyers, Odell Beckham Jr. and Julio Jones. Meyers is a slot guy, but he can also win on the outside. He’s not really a “second-draft” guy (which I will explain in a minute) because he wasn’t drafted and also because he was pretty damn productive in New England. He’s 26 years old, and he’s probably the best wideout available this offseason. Beckham didn’t play at all last season as he rehabbed his torn ACL. At his peak, he is one of the very best players at the position. We haven’t seen that peak in a while, though, and we don’t know how close to it he can get in the wake of his injury. Jones, meanwhile, is just Julio Freaking Jones. Or at least, he used to be. You have no idea what you’re going to get if you sign him, other than that you’re not likely to get a whole lot of it due to his persistent health issues.