{"id":115370,"date":"2025-08-28T04:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115370\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:02:12","slug":"terry-mclaurin-on-concerns-about-receivers-over-30-there-are-outliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115370\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry McLaurin on concerns about receivers over 30: There are outliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

During wide receiver Terry McLaurin\u2019s extended push for a new contract this offseason, one of the reasons cited for the Commanders\u2019 possible reluctance to a long-term commitment was his age. <\/p>\n

McLaurin turns 30 in mid-September and that ultimately didn\u2019t stop the team from agreeing to a three-year extension with the wideout. At a press conference on Wednesday, McLaurin was asked about his response to concerns that neither he nor the deal will age well. <\/p>\n

McLaurin acknowledged the data that shows a dropoff for receivers after 30, but noted he\u2019s in his seventh season and that he didn\u2019t play an onerous number of reps in college as well as a strong record of health in the NFL while explaining why he thinks he\u2019ll keep producing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe data is the data, but I think certain people<\/a> \u2014 there\u2019s outliers, there\u2019s people who may not necessarily fit into that set of data,\u201d McLaurin said. \u201cOnly time will tell, but I feel like where things are tending an my ability \u2014 in January I ran like a 60-yard screen for a touchdown. My speed hasn\u2019t diminished at all. My toughness is there. If anything, my savviness of playing receiver has grown.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Commanders appear to agree with McLaurin about what the near future will hold and they\u2019ll be hoping that Week 1 brings reminders of what McLaurin is capable of doing with that speed, toughness, and savviness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During wide receiver Terry McLaurin\u2019s extended push for a new contract this offseason, one of the reasons cited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-115370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}