Top 5 Bengals Of All Time

[Shake n Blake]

(05-21-2016, 10:54 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Well lets look what you left out

Curtis placed top 10 in YPC 5 times ( lead league once and came in second once(  
Chad placed top 10 in YPC 0 times.

What hurts Curtis is he stopped being a starter the last few years of his career but here is  something that I feel is amazing stat when you look at six years of Curtis prime years.   Curtis caught over 41 percent of all the TD's thrown during those  6 years for the Bengals compare that to Chad who caught 31 percent of all the TDs thrown during 6 of his prime years which is still a good number.


I thought I would try to compare those numbers to a couple peers comparable to Curtis and Chad during six prime seasons

Curtis 41 percent, Carmichael 38 percent, Branch 37 percent

Chad  31 percent,  Ward 38 percent, Harrison 38 percent and Holt 45 percent.

In the end I think there is a good argument for Curtis over Chad especially when you look at their prime years as starters and the impact they had for their team but really either one could be in top 5, so im going to go 5 Curtis and 5A Chad..lol

Actually, I know you're mistaken on that because I saw Chad in the top 10 in that category a few times. I just didn't list that stat because people rarely bring up yards per catch when talking about best WRs. Otherwise, I guess we'd be talking about Flipper Anderson being the best WR of all-time, not Jerry Rice.

Obviously we'll just have to disagree. Chad dominated his peers in what most consider to be the most important categories (catches, yards, TDs), while Curtis did not. Curtis had good TD and YPC numbers, but so did Chad. 

So sure, you can make an argument for Curtis being the best and most dominant WR in Bengals history. It's just not a very good argument.