WTL;DR - skimmed through it a bit

Overall, I think you're missing the point. If you read back, pretty much every guy you put there has been accounted for in our discussion. I'm not saying we had no one on the roster, but if you compare the talent level of those WRs to some of the other programs in the SEC that I mentioned, it's not the same no matter how you slice it. With high quality QB talent, you can still get by throwing to WRs that are less than stellar, you simply don't have WRs that just take over games.

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Yeah b/c AJ Green is a once in a decade type player

Let's put it in "Madden" style rating terms, if I say AJ Green is a 99/100, where is the next best WR rated... 83? 85? That's a pretty wide gap... If you think there is someone who should be rated higher, feel free to make the case. I think Gibson and Edwards were both solid guys but not elite. Similarly, the other guys you referenced that were drafted were pretty much all late round pickups and while M. Brown manages to see the field for the Ravens as a spot deep threat, he was by no means a top receiver while at UGA.

A lot of the guys you referenced are TEs, and I don't deny we've had some pretty stellar TEs (Pope, Charles, Watson) but that doesn't equate to WR talent. If we open it up to TEs then you're bringing in Aaron Hernandez (among others) at UF in addition to a couple of WRs I left out in Jabar Gaffney, Louis Murphy, Dallas Baker, and sure Riley Cooper.

Again, it's a relative world, and UGA WR talent simply hasn't been where one might expect given the talent at the QB position for 12 of the last 15 years and a reasonably aggressive offense for the SEC. Were they serviceable? Sure. We had a pretty damn good run over the last 15 years, it's what made getting rid of Richt so difficult. But just look at some of the other rosters over this time span and the number of WRs that are still actively playing on NFL rosters. I only listed a few SEC schools, but FSU, Clemson, Miami all have a slew of WRs that not only excelled in college but have gone into the league during this time and are still performing (Sammy Watkins, Kelvin Benjamin, Deandre Hopkins...)