‘Receiver’ Trailer: The NFL Gives Its Best Wideouts the ‘Quarterback’ Treatment in Netflix Docu-Series
No major American professional sport has a longer offseason than the NFL, but the league never fails to find ways to turn professional football into a year-round entertainment product. As fans wait out the final summer months before their favorite teams suit up on the gridirons again, they can always count on new prestige documentaries to tide them over until kickoff.
For years, the summer football documentary niche was monopolized by HBO, whose annual training camp documentary “Hard Knocks” has long been beloved by sports media consumers (if not for the actual teams, who often go to great lengths to avoid being featured on the show). But Netflix got into the game in 2023 with “Quarterback,” an eight-part documentary that followed quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota over the course of a season playing the sport’s most important position.
The streaming giant repeats the formula with the upcoming “Receiver,” which puts five of the NFL’s top wide receivers in the spotlight. Amon-Ra St. Brown of the Detroit Lions, Deebo Samuel and George Kittle of the San Francisco 49ers, Davante Adams of the Las Vegas Raiders, and the NFL’s new highest-paid receiver, Justin Jefferson of the Minnesota Vikings, all allowed camera crews to follow them through the 2023-2024 season. The resulting documentary aims to highlight the other half of each completed pass on some of the league’s top offenses.
“Receiver” hails from the same producing team of NFL Films, Patrick Mahomes’ 2PM Productions, and Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions that collaborated on “Quarterback.”
The new series comes as Netflix continues to deepen its relationship with the NFL. The streamer recently signed a deal to broadcast two live NFL games on Christmas Day in both 2025 and 2026. The games will mark the highest profile live sports endeavor that Netflix has ever taken on, allowing it to join Peacock and Prime Video in the club of streaming services that have acquired the exclusive rights to NFL games.
All eight episodes of “Receiver” will stream on Netflix on Wednesday, July 10. Watch the trailer below.
