01-26-2018, 06:48 PM
(01-26-2018, 01:17 PM)Bengalitis Wrote: Fast receivers are good, the "fastest receiver in the NFL" are never good. (those belong in track & field).
At first I mocked this post with a comment about Bob Hayes being in the Hall of Fame. But upon review of recent history it appears Bengalitis is on to something.
Over the last 18 years ('00-'17) there have been a total of 10 WRs who ran the forty in 4.30 or faster at the combine.
Five of the ten never had a single season with 500 receiving yards, and 2 more only had a single season. Only 1 of them (Donte Stallworth) had more than 2 seasons with at least 500 receiving yards.
In 45 combined NFL seasons they only produced 11 seasons with 500+ yards.
Not a single one of them ever had a 1000 season.
The 10 WRs only produced 3 seasons with as many as 900 receiving yards (Stallworth '05, Darrius Heyward Bay '11, Marquise Goodwin '17).
8 of the 10 were listed at less than 6 feet tall, and the two that were at least 6 feet tall (Stallworth, Heyward Bay) accounted for two of the three 900 yd seasons and seven of the eleven 500+ yard seasons.
