Dallas Cowboys: Why Slot Receiver is so Important in Today's NFL

Ideally the RBWR slot can run some routes in the seam and be as legitimate a wide receiver as he is a ballcarrier but the goal for these teams

The slot is the area between the last offensive lineman on the line and the wide receiver that is split out to that end of the field

slot milling diagram Instead of referring to them as wide receivers, slot receivers, or wideouts, they started to label them as X, Y, and Z receivers X receiver: the fastest

slot machine japan 1 wide receivers inside to the slot That doesn't mean they play exclusively out of the Y, it just means when the offense goes three-wide (11