According to this article on ESPN.com, Kiper’s top 5 wideouts are Cordarrelle Patterson, Keenan Allen, DeAndre Hopkins, Quinton Patton and Tavon Austin. Using the career graph comparison app that I posted here, we can pretty quickly compare the receivers based on their body of work in college. NFL evaluators probably don’t give enough credence to a theory of evaluating wideouts that says basically “If he can do it, he can do it.” If a receiver can produce in the college game, that’s probably as close as you’re going to get to evidence that he can play in the NFL as well. In order to try to isolate a player’s production from yards or touchdowns that might be produced by his quarterback or the scheme he plays in, we can use percentages, or market shares of team production to determine how dominant a player is.
