I understand we’ve always seen it that way, but the 8 is so… bulky, especially in Varsity Block, which the Saints and roughly a dozen other teams still use for their jersey numbers.
I think if we’d always seen them in the 70s - 7 being much sleeker number than 8 - I’d be advocating for more WRs in the 70s. But we made it the number of offensive tackles, defensive ends, and Simon Fletcher, so it comes off more as a big guys’ number.