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Originally Posted by JudasRising20
Receiving numbers are skewed based on today's passing friendly era. 100 receptions in a season used to be rare. Otis Taylor is not in the HOF, yet all these accumulators you listed likely make it.
Same thing is happening in hockey. Everyone who put up big numbers in the high scoring 1980's is being inducted into the HOF. This results in many inductees who weren't special and just benefitted from the era.
Leroy Butler was pretty good. I forgot about him.
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I can definitely agree on the WRs thing. Andre Johnson was my one choice at WR to make it because I think he was the toughest cover, could be dominant, had some really big years, and did it on a team that wasn't all that amazing.
Smith has a compelling case with what he did as an undersized guy on a team that wasn't loaded either.
Reggie Wayne had another HOF caliber receiver opposite him most of his career and so did Holt. I don't know that Ward was ever dominant enough. Boldin didn't seem to be all that dominant either, just consistently solid. I wouldn't necessarily put those guys in myself, but the committee is going to look at the stats I presented and I think they trickle in one by one and all end up in there.