Having high-quality wide receivers is critical to regular and postseason success in the NFL. We rank the top 32 WR trios in the NFL today.
It’s rare that an NFL team lacking in high-end options at wide receiver makes it to the postseason, no less to the Super Bowl, without at least one stud receiver. Often that isn’t enough.
Case in point, look no further than the most recent Super Bowl between the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals. The Rams featured Cooper Kupp and added Odell Beckham Jr for the stretch run and subsequently hit their stride, resulting in a Super Bowl win.
The Bengals? Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, and Tyler Boyd made the Bengals offense borderline unstoppable at times.
Undoubtedly having at least one big-time receiver is key.
With the 2022 NFL Draft looming, and free agency, at least any meaningful signings, over, what is the state of the position league-wide?
This draft is historically heavy with high-end receiving talent, and there are a number of teams desperately in need of such talent.
So for fun, let’s rank all 32 wide receiver trios before the draft. Depth charts are far from set in stone at this point, but I took the starting depth charts from all 32 teams per ESPN and broke them down into power rankings or in some cases lack of power.
A few of these trios are downright disgusting, but that’s why we will revisit this after the draft.
Now let’s take a look at the power rankings for all 32 wide receiver trios.
Ranking NFL wide receiver trios in the league today
32. Atlanta Falcons- Olamide Zaccheaus, Damiere Byrd, KhaDarel Hodge
How did this happen? The Falcons are only a couple of years removed from Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley. Now it’s Olamide Zaccheaus, Damiere Byrd, and KhaDarel Hodge. Woof. Look for the Falcons to add help in the draft, but this is hands down the saddest unit in the NFL.
31. Green Bay Packers- Sammy Watkins, Allen Lazard, Randall Cobb
Following the stunning departure of Davante Adams, Green Bay is left to wonder what’s next? They struggled to add Adams any help over his career, instead relying on Aaron Rodgers to elevate subpar talent.
That hasn’t always worked. Newly signed Sammy Watkins slots in as the de facto WR1. That’s bad. Allan Lazard and the ancient Randall Cobb round out the weakest set of pass-catchers in Aaron Rodgers’ career.
30. New Orleans Saints- Michael Thomas, Marquez Callaway, Tre’Quan Smith
It appears as though it’s going to be anything but easy in the Big Easy in 2022. Is Michael Thomas motivated and healthy? Was Thomas just a product of Drew Brees? I suspect the latter.
Slow-footed Marquez Callaway and the perpetually underachieving Tre’Quan Smith round out this ugly threesome. Good luck Jameis Winston
29. New England Patriots- DeVante Parker, Kendrick Bourne, Jakobi Myers
New England historically hasn’t drafted well at WR, but Tom Brady was able to mask much of that failure by being, well, Tom Brady. Mac Jones isn’t Tom Brady. Jones had a fine rookie year, but the lack of anything at receiver clearly held him back.
The Pats acquired former Dolphin DeVante Parker, but running alongside Kendrick Bourne and Jakobi Myers will once again cap Jones and the Patriots’ upside.