Average Weight of Wide Receivers: How big should a WR be?

The wide receiver is actually one of the lightest positions in football meaning there is not so much bulking up needed in the gym.

The reason for this is the role that they have to carry out on the pitch. The wide receiver is supposed to start right out on the flank and catch passes from the quarterback.

That means they need to be able to leap high and hang in the air above other players and they also need to have the pace to outrun defenders and the agility to get around them with and without the ball.

The speed and agility elements obviously lend themselves to a lighter player than someone like an offensive line.

How big should a Wide Receiver be?

The average weight in the NFL in recent years for wide receivers is 200 Ibs and in college football, it is 190 Ibs.

That puts wide receivers level with defensive backs as the lightest on the field, and a massive 114 Ibs lighter than the heaviest position which is the offensive line.

With these figures in mind, it explains why there has supposedly been a lot of anger from Tampa Bay Buccanneers coaches towards one of their wide receivers, Leonard Fournette.

He is currently listed at almost 260 Ibs which puts him in a totally different weight bracket than the average wide receiver in the NFL.

Longtime Buccaneers beat writer Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times said on his podcast: "The last time we saw Leonard Fournette he was about a doughnut shy of 260," Stroud said. "He certainly didn't look like a guy who could play every down.

"Coaches were not happy, and that's an understatement, when he didn't participate in the OTAs, but then he shows up at the mandatory minicamp weighing damn near 260.

"And that's not a good sign for a guy that you just spent a three-year contract on."

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