The winger used to be the worst and least important player on the team. The player that wasn't quite good enough to be a half or fullback and wasn't strong enough to play centre.
There's a reason there are a million footy jokes about wingers. That age is well and truly over.
While it might still technically be the least important, wingers are crucial to a team's success. These days, they take all the hard runs off the line when their team is in trouble and score most of the tries. Metre-making and try-scoring.
Both are pretty important aspects of rugby league.
With players seemingly getting younger and younger, and their talent getting higher and higher, there is a huge pool of players who are scoring tries on the wing only a few years into their career.
Here are the five best wingers aged 22 and under.
1. Xavier Coates - 21
It's almost unbelievable that Xavier Coates is only 21.
With 37 games under his belt, having just started his fourth NRL season, Coates has been one of the best wingers in the competition for the last two years.
Having missed a lot of time due to some injuries, Coates will be hoping to have his first full season with his first season at the Storm.
Looking improved at the Storm already, making smarter decisions and working harder on kick chases than he did at the Broncos, Melbourne could turn Coates from a top ten winger into the best winger, with a four-try haul on ANZAC Day against the New Zealand Warriors kickstarting things in the right direction.
