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It’s not quite the Brady Six Chuma Edoga Jersey , but Saints receiver Michael Thomas likely is thinking about five specific names as the ink dries on his five-year, $100 million* extension. (The asterisk will be explained in a future post.)In 2016, five receivers were drafted before Thomas, the 47th pick in the draft. None of them have come close to doing what Thomas has done in New Orleans.From Corey Coleman (15th overall) to Will Fuller (21st) to Josh Doctson (22nd) to Laquon Treadwell (23rd) to Sterling Sheppard (40th), all have been — relative to Thomas — not great. Sheppard has come the closest to the production that Thomas has generated, but Sheppard is still averaging 500 yards per year (1,500 total) fewer than Thomas.Indeed, Thomas has more than 500 more career receiving yards than the four 2016 first-round receivers combined. He has 3,787; Coleman http://www.jetsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-trevon-wesco-jersey , Fuller, Doctson, and Treadwell have 3,257 among them.Motivated in part by sliding to 47th, it’s fair to wonder whether Thomas would have been as good if he didn’t have the chip on his shoulder that comes from being drafted lower than he believes he should have been drafted. Regardless, he landed where he did, he’s done what he’s done, and now he’s getting paid huge money — more per year in new money than any receiver in NFL history.Of course, that may not last long. A guy who slid to round five in that same draft currently plays for the Chiefs Clelin Ferrell Jersey , and with Thomas setting the bar at $20 million per year, Tyreek Hill surely will try to match or beat it. When the Jets fired G.M. Mike Maccagnan last week, Eagles V.P. of player personnel Joe Douglas became the first person to emerge as a potential replacement. Six days later, the Eagles apparently haven’t received a request for permission to interview Douglas.Asked whether the team anticipates losing Douglas, coach Doug Pederson told reporters on Tuesday, “At this time there is nothing, so he’s here.”Pederson generally praised Douglas for his work in the front office. “Our relationship has been great,” Pederson said. “It’s like we’ve said before. He’s a big part of our scouting process and getting the information we need through our scouts and assisting us in that area. . . . Our process has always been a collaborative one. There is a lot of open dialogue, whether it’s between me and Howie [Roseman] http://www.raidersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-josh-jacobs-jersey , Joe and Howie, the three of us together, our owner [Jeffrey Lurie], and he’s really built that relationship and has done a good job for us.”The Jets have made no announcements regarding any conducted or planned interviews, and the team has provided no timeline for hiring Maccagnan’s replacement. The team named coach Adam Gase the interim G.M. last week.Gase recently explained that he anticipates no power struggle with the new G.M. That will likely be true, if the team hires a G.M. who is aligned with Gase. If coach and G.M. are on the same page, there will be no reason for either guy to try to secure the power to do things the way the coach or the G.M. want them to be done.