Which WR is highest on your All Time List Between This Group

[ukjets21]

To me it seems like Fitzgerald belongs in a different conversation to this group. Take him away and its Harrison or Brown.

[RabidPanther89]

In terms of pound for pound the best player. Take away stat padding . Steve Smith > Fitzgerald, Holt, Harrison, and Bruce.

He was more dangerous and could score anywhere on the field. He was also historically targeted 20-30, to even 40 times less at times a season then the aforementioned players. The most Steve Smith was ever targeted in a season was 150 times, occurring only once. 
 

By comparison here are his contemporaries targets of 150 more in a season. 

Fitzgerald (9)

Holt (4)

Harrison (4)

Bruce (2) 

Mind you this is playing with Jake Delhomme, and only having Muhammad to pull coverage for a few years. He also lost two seasons worth of his all time yardages due to injury and being a KR/PR his rookie year. 
 

Had Steve Smith got to play with Manning or Warner in a passing offense for any stretch of his prime he would smashed some records and likely be 16-17k in receiving yards conservatively.

Edited December 28, 2023 by RabidPanther89

[OkeyDoke21]

52 minutes ago, RabidPanther89 said:

In terms of pound for pound the best player. Take away stat padding . Steve Smith > Fitzgerald, Holt, Harrison, and Bruce.

Not that pound for pound has any value in football, probably would even be viewed as a negative before a positive, but did Smith weigh less than Bruce or Harrison?  Even with the height difference, Smith was built pretty compact compared to those two, especially Marvin.   His frame was pretty filled out.   I'm old enough to remember Harrison at Syracuse, where he looked like a kid had to borrow his uncle's old equipment to play.  He was swimming in those old big shoulder pads with a super narrow waist and sticks for legs coming out of the bottom.  He looked like he weighed 150 lb.   He filled out some in the pros, but still had a really narrow/slight frame.  

Edited December 27, 2023 by OkeyDoke21