Quarterback is certainly the most important position in football and in all of team sports, and just about everyone has an opinion of who the 10 greatest QBs in NFL history are. But the wide receiver position isn’t too far behind the QB position in terms of importance, especially in this day and age.

The league has seen plenty of great and even transcendent wideouts, especially over the past 20 years or so as the game has gotten more pass-friendly and offensive-minded.

While many people seem to agree on who the three or four greatest players at that position are, not many seem to agree on where each deserves to be ranked. But we will go ahead and make our best effort to rank them from 10 to one.

10. Tyreek Hill

Some may say it’s too early to put Hill on a list like this, but we beg to differ. The “Cheetah” has already had four seasons with over 1,200 receiving yards, and he won the Super Bowl championship during the 2019 season while with the Kansas City Chiefs.

This year, he is on a record tear with 1,014 yards and eight touchdowns, both of which lead the NFL, through eight games. He could end up with the most receiving yards in a single season when it’s all said and done.

9. Marvin Harrison

One of the best wideouts of the 2000s, Harrison led the league in catches and receiving yards twice, was named to the Pro Bowl eight straight times and got onto the All-Pro First Team three times.

In the 2006 season, he helped Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts finally get over the hump and win the Super Bowl. That season, he posted 1,366 yards and 12 touchdowns and earned both Pro Bowl and All-Pro First Team honors despite being 34 years of age.

8. Julio Jones

In his prime, Jones was a speed demon, and his best season was in 2015 when he tallied 1,871 receiving yards, which is the third-most in NFL history.

The following year, he helped the Atlanta Falcons reach the Super Bowl. Unfortunately, after taking a 25-point lead there, they lost to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.

Still, Jones finished his career with more receiving yards than any other player in the decade of the 2010s, and he was named to the Pro Bowl seven times. He even became the fastest player in NFL history to get to 10,000 career receiving yards.

7. Antonio Brown

From about 2013 to 2018, Brown was an absolute beast while with the Pittsburgh Steelers. During that six-year span, he led the league in receiving yards twice and receiving touchdowns once, and he went above 1,500 yards three times (he came close to a fourth such season in 2013 when he had 1,499 yards).

But after about 2018, he fell hard from grace after a number of unforgettable and inflammatory incidents. A number of people, including Brown himself, have speculated that he suffers from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

6. Michael Irvin

Some may feel Irvin should be a little higher on this list, given that he won three Super Bowl championships in four seasons with the Dallas Cowboys.

But in the early to mid-1990s, he was one of the two or three best wide receivers in the game, and he remains a figure in the football world today thanks to his loquacious personality.

5. Cris Carter

Carter led the NFL in touchdown receptions three times, was named to the Pro Bowl eight straight times and was the lynchpin of those high-powered Minnesota Vikings teams in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

He’s 13th all-time in career receiving yards and fourth in career receiving touchdowns.

4. Terrell Owens

Owens could’ve possibly been No. 1 on this list if he really needed to. He is third in career receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, and he had an incredible set of skills that made him a nuclear-grade weapon on the field.

However, for whatever reason, Owens could never get out of his own way, and perhaps as a result, he reached the Super Bowl just once, where his Philadelphia Eagles lost to the New England Patriots.

3. Randy Moss

Moss was a sensation from the moment he took the field in the NFL. He had 10 seasons with over 1,000 receiving yards, and he holds the record for the most touchdown receptions in one year with 23 back in 2007 as a member of the Patriots.

However, the Vince Lombardi Trophy eluded him, both during that 2007 season and during his final campaign when his San Francisco 49ers lost in the Super Bowl to the Baltimore Ravens.

2. Calvin Johnson

Nicknamed “Megatron” after the Transformers character because of his huge hands, Johnson was one of the more impressive physical specimens in NFL history. Not only was he 6-foot-5 and nearly 240 pounds, but he could run the 40-yard dash in 4.35 seconds.

In nine seasons, all of them with the Detroit Lions, he collected 11,619 receiving yards and 83 touchdowns, and he was named to the Pro Bowl in each of his last six seasons. He still holds the single season record for the most receiving yards at 1,964, which he established back in 2012.

1. Jerry Rice

If anyone doesn’t have Rice as their top wideout of all time, they should either be required to submit to a psychiatric evaluation or spend a full week locked in a basement with Terry Bradshaw. Rice is the greatest to ever play his position, and it isn’t even that close.

He spent 16 of his 20 NFL seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, and he retired as the all-time leader in over three dozen categories. He still has more touchdowns, yards from scrimmage, receptions and All-Pro First Team selections than anyone else. Oh, and he won three Super Bowl championships and was the MVP of Super Bowl XXIII.

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