2020 Wide Receivers

[Upnorth]

Tex I don't know what you are smoking
On the field Jennings had driver as his #2 most of his packers career and nelson as a #3 for a couple years.
Saying you would take mvs over Jennings implies you might say you would take mvs over driver if you follow the logic.

It's nice to talk about wrs in a wr thread btw.

[sharpe1027]

5'11" and a 4.48 forty compared to 6'4" and a 4.37 forty. I never had as high an opinion of Jennings as some other people. When he signed with the Vikings, I said good riddance, and I didn't expect him to be worth what they paid him - which he wasn't.

I was fine with him going because he wanted out and the Vikings overpaid for a small WR on the wrong side of 30.

To be fair, he still led the Vikings in receiving yards. He had Matt Cassel and Christian Ponder throwing him the ball. You think MVS would do well with those clowns throwing him the rock? If so, you just made a great case to get rid of Rodgers...

[run pMc]

Jennings >> MVS as a WR. As a straight line athlete I'd pick MVS, but GJ was a far superior WR.

Look at their numbers -- MVS finally surpassed GJ's rookie yards this year, and if you compare their age 25 or 26 seasons it's not even close. He's #9 on the GB WR list all time with 6500+ yards and 53 TD in 7 seasons. That's a pretty dang good WR.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JennGr00.htm

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/V/ValdMa00.htm

[Zool]

I'd take Billy Schroeder over any of them.....also Taco Wallace.

[King Friday]

Jennings was a way better receiver than MVS... ain't even close. However, the gap between MVS and Jennings is probably less than between Jennings and Adams. Jennings was a very good receiver on a team with Driver and Nelson. Adams is the best receiver in the league... Jennings was never near to that level. If MVS can grab 50 catches a year and get 8-10 TDs, he would be close to Jennings' equal because of the rate deep speed he brings to the offense.

[Fritz]

My God...I agreed with Tex in this thread that Funchess is a nothing burger, and I agreed with Wist that Jennings is so much better than MVS that it's laughable.

The apocolypse is well nigh.

[texaspackerbacker]

Tex I don't know what you are smoking
On the field Jennings had driver as his #2 most of his packers career and nelson as a #3 for a couple years.
Saying you would take mvs over Jennings implies you might say you would take mvs over driver if you follow the logic.

It's nice to talk about wrs in a wr thread btw.

I also always thought Donald Driver and later Nelson and even James Jones were better than Jennings. Driver v MVS? Driver was also very athletic although nowhere near as fast. Keep in mind, all you Jennings lovers who disagree, I'm not speaking of MVS as-is. I qualified it by saying IF he stops with the drops, which is really is only shortcoming.

Comparing somebody from the past with somebody from the present is always shaky, but I'm fairly confident that by the time MVS is done, he will be considered as good or better than Jennings.

[Zool]

My God...I agreed with Tex in this thread that Funchess is a nothing burger, and I agreed with Wist that Jennings is so much better than MVS that it's laughable.

The apocolypse is well nigh.

Well we don't know about Funchess, but if he were fantastic, he would have signed somewhere for more money and years.

MVS being anywhere near Jennings is silly.

These 2 statements are just logic. They don't need analyzation.

[Upnorth]

I also always thought Donald Driver and later Nelson and even James Jones were better than Jennings. Driver v MVS? Driver was also very athletic although nowhere near as fast. Keep in mind, all you Jennings lovers who disagree, I'm not speaking of MVS as-is. I qualified it by saying IF he stops with the drops, which is really is only shortcoming.

Comparing somebody from the past with somebody from the present is always shaky, but I'm fairly confident that by the time MVS is done, he will be considered as good or better than Jennings.

If he quits the drops he is a game changer. How often does a receiver find there hands in year4?

[Bretsky]

Jennings iMO was a notch above Driver and Jordy. And to be honest I'm bias'd toward driver as he was about my favorite Packer.

I put a hug value on when your team gets deep in the red zone, which WR can run the great route to get open in short space. That guy was Jennings. Remember the route Antonio Brown ran on us for the TD ? Not many can do that. Jennings had elite route running skills and it was a HUGE loss when he left.

And I think he regrets leaving. He went into Show me the Money mode when GB offered him nearly as much and he had a really really good gig here and was with a winner.

[Bretsky]

I do hope MVS continues to improve and becomes the solid to stellar #3 option (along with the Lizard) and we get a legit #2 so the two former players I mentioned see the #3 and #4 cover talent form the other team.

[sharpe1027]

I also always thought Donald Driver and later Nelson and even James Jones were better than Jennings. Driver v MVS? Driver was also very athletic although nowhere near as fast. Keep in mind, all you Jennings lovers who disagree, I'm not speaking of MVS as-is. I qualified it by saying IF he stops with the drops, which is really is only shortcoming.

Comparing somebody from the past with somebody from the present is always shaky, but I'm fairly confident that by the time MVS is done, he will be considered as good or better than Jennings.

I agree. If in the future MVS becomes a better WR than Jennings already was, he will end up being better than Jennings.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Ranking the recent Packers WRs is hard--even going back to Antonio Freeman. Before that, James Lofton and Sterling Sharpe were clearly the best since Don Hutson.

My rank of the Packers WRs since Sharpe:

1) Adams
2) Jordy
3a) Jennings
3b) Driver
5) Freeman
6) Cobb
7) Brooks
8) Jones

Javon Walker would probably be in the top 5, if he didn't get greedy and get himself sent packing. Still hard to believe Bill Schroeder had three 900+ yard seasons.

It might be a sacrilege to have Driver ranked so low. He was good, but a bit overrated in team annuls. Jordy had four1250+ yard and three 13+ TD seasons. Driver didn't have one 1250 yard season or even a 10 TD season.

[Bretsky]

Ranking the recent Packers WRs is hard--even going back to Antonio Freeman. Before that, James Lofton and Sterling Sharpe were clearly the best since Don Hutson.

My rank of the Packers WRs since Sharpe:

1) Adams
2) Jordy
3a) Jennings
3b) Driver
5) Freeman
6) Cobb
7) Brooks
8) Jones

Javon Walker would probably be in the top 5, if he didn't get greedy and get himself sent packing. Still hard to believe Bill Schroeder had three 900+ yard seasons.

It might be a sacrilege to have Driver ranked so low. He was good, but a bit overrated in team annuls. Jordy had four1250+ yard and three 13+ TD seasons. Driver didn't have one 1250 yard season or even a 10 TD season.

I think I might put Jennings over Jordy....but very close.....otherwise I'm right there..........wait...is Cobb really better than Brooks ?

[Joemailman]

If he quits the drops he is a game changer. How often does a receiver find there hands in year4?

James Jones improved later than that.

Prior to the 2012 season, Jones had been a solid but flawed receiver in his first five years in the NFL. Considering that Jones was usually the third or fourth option in the passing game in those previous seasons, flaws are somewhat expected for a player at his spot on the depth chart. The biggest issue in Jones' game had always been drops. He dropped 20.51 percent of the passes thrown his way in 2009, 10.71 percent in 2010 and 13.64 percent in 2011. But everything changed for Jones in 2012, starting with a drastic improvement in consistency catching the ball, dropping only 4.48 percent.