Best WR in franchise history - Analysis

[*jason*]

(06-20-2022, 10:29 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: See this is why I hate when people try to compare skill positions across eras.

1 - The rules are so vastly different. It is so much easier to play WR in today's NFL. CBs have to keep their hands off you, no head hunting LBers trying to take you out. Everything in the modern NFL is built to increase scoring which increases viewers, which increases revenue. I understand it completely but to say any player in today's NFL is the goat because of numbers is misguided.

2 - QB, QB, QB!!!! Carl Pickens put up really good numbers with really bad teams, and really bad coaches and a coaching carousel. Chase and Higgins will statistcially be at the top of most things for Bengals WRs before it is all said and done (unless Higgins takes a big contract elsewhere). Is it really that Chase is just soooooo much better than Chad Johnson or Pickens or Green or Curtis? Or is it Chase and Higgins are catching balls from the guy who will go down as the best QB the team has ever had, with a good defense on the other side. Certainly a better situation then other WR's have had with the exception of a few years with Anderson in the early 80's and a few with Boomer in the late 80's.

A guy needs to be compared to his peers only in his own era. In that environment of the same rules, same coaches, same variables, the stats are viable and prove a trend.

When mutliple variables are changed (era, coaches, QBs) can't compare stats and expect for the results to be correct.

What other skill position player in any era had a rookie season that rivals that of Ja'Marr Chase when compared with his peers in his era then?