Brothers in Arms

[78]

In Nashville together. Stole this from #28's FB page.

 

[Jbossgator8]

Two of the best WRs we ever had. They don't make em like that anymore that is for sure!

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Can they block and run end arounds? We may need them.

 

[78]

Agreed. Nice to see them together.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I was always surprised Doering didn't last longer in the NFL. Usually smart hardworking guys like that who run great routes find a niche.

 

[78]

I was always surprised Doering didn't last longer in the NFL. Usually smart hardworking guys like that who run great routes find a niche.

You mean guys like Collinsworth? I suppose Cris had a little more speed and reach.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

You mean guys like Collinsworth?

Exactly. I remember Chris being more of a route runner and possession guy though, and Isaac Curtis being the deep threat type. What a pair of receivers they were.

Of course everyone is a possession receiver in a Sam Wyche offense.

 

[78]

Exactly. I remember Chris being more of a route runner and possession guy though, and Isaac Curtis being the deep threat type. What a pair of receivers they were.

Of course everyone is a possession receiver in a Sam Wyche offense.

Collinsworth could motor when he got daylight, but you're right about Wyche. A West Coaster off the Bill Walsh dink and dunk tree.

 

[stephenPE]

Collinsworth looking like David Steele now...............

 

[stephenPE]

Chris was a sprint champion in HS i think.

 

[SeabeeGator]

Chris was a sprint champion in HS i think.

Yep, Astronaut High in Titusville, FL. My cross country coach ran with him (my coach was a state champ in cross country).

 

[MJMGator]

Collinsworth was one of our top 5 WRs of all time. Maybe top 3?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Collinsworth was one of our top 5 WRs of all time. Maybe top 3?

I would say he is probably the best pro. Nats Moore is the other competitor.

But as for actual quantifiable stats, he isn't on any of the lists:

Receiving Yards
Career
Rank Player Yards Years
1 Carlos Alvarez 2,563 1969 1970 1971
2 Jabar Gaffney 2,375 2000 2001
3 Andre Caldwell 2,349 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
4 Reidel Anthony 2,274 1994 1995 1996
5 Jack Jackson 2,266 1992 1993 1994
6 Dallas Baker 2,236 2003 2004 2005 2006
7 Ike Hilliard 2,214 1994 1995 1996
8 Jacquez Green 2,181 1995 1996 1997
9 Willie Jackson 2,172 1990 1991 1992 1993
10 Chris Doering 2,107 1992 1993 1994 1995

Single season
Rank Player Yards Year
1 Travis McGriff 1,357 1998
2 Carlos Alvarez 1,329 1969
3 Reidel Anthony 1,293 1996
4 Jabar Gaffney 1,191 2001
5 Jabar Gaffney 1,184 2000
6 Darrell Jackson 1,156 1999
7 Taylor Jacobs 1,088 2002
8 Reche Caldwell 1,059 2001
9 Chris Doering 1,045 1995
10 Jacquez Green 1,024 1997

Single game
Rank Player Yards Year Opponent
1 Taylor Jacobs 246[15] 2002 UAB
2 Carlos Alvarez 237 1969 Miami (FL)
3 Travis McGriff 222 1998 South Carolina
4 Demarcus Robinson 216[12] 2014 Kentucky
5 Travis McGriff 213 1998 Alabama
6 Chris Doering 199 1993 Mississippi State
7 Reidel Anthony 193 1996 Florida State
8 Ike Hilliard 192 1995 Florida State
9 Reidel Anthony 189 1996 Arkansas
10 Wes Chandler 187 1976 North Carolina

Receiving Touchdowns
Career
Rank Player TDs Years
1 Chris Doering 31 1992 1993 1994 1995
2 Ike Hilliard 29 1994 1995 1996
3 Jack Jackson 29 1992 1993 1994
4 Jabar Gaffney 27 2000 2001
5 Reidel Anthony 26 1994 1995 1996
6 Willie Jackson 24 1990 1991 1992 1993
7 Jacquez Green 23 1995 1996 1997
8 Wes Chandler 22 1974 1975 1976 1977
9 Dallas Baker 21 2003 2004 2005 2006
10 Carlos Alvarez 19 1969 1970 1971

Single season
Rank Player TDs Year
1 Reidel Anthony 18 1996
2 Chris Doering 17 1995
3 Jack Jackson 15 1994
4 Ike Hilliard 15 1995
5 Jabar Gaffney 14 2000
6 Jabar Gaffney 13 2001
7 Carlos Alvarez 12 1969
8 Jack Jackson 11 1993

Single game
Rank Player TDs Year Opponent
1 Jack Jackson 4 1994 New Mexico State
Ike Hilliard 4 1995 Tennessee

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Professional career
Collinsworth was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round (37th pick overall) of the 1981 NFL Draft,[16] and spent his entire eight-year NFL career with the Bengals.[17] He surpassed 1,000 yards receiving four times (in 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986) and was named to the Pro Bowl in 1981, 1982 and 1983. At six feet, five inches in height, Collinsworth often created mismatches against much smaller cornerbacks. In addition to his height advantage, Collinsworth was a legitimate deep threat due to his speed.

In Super Bowl XVI, Collinsworth caught five passes for 107 yards,[18] but committed a costly fumble when he was hit by San Francisco defensive back Eric Wright.

In 1985, Collinsworth signed with the Tampa Bay Bandits of the United States Football League (USFL), but the contract was voided when he failed the physical due to a bad ankle. He returned to the Bengals and played for them until the end of the 1988 season, catching three passes for 40 yards in Super Bowl XXIII, the final game of his career. He finished his eight-season NFL career with 417 receptions for 6,698 yards and 36 touchdowns in 107 games.[3]


Nats Moore:
Professional career
Moore was chosen by the Miami Dolphins in the third round (seventy-eighth pick overall) of the 1974 NFL Draft,[7] and he played for the Dolphins for thirteen seasons from 1974 to 1986.[1] He was elected to the Pro Bowl in 1977,[8] after a season in which he made fifty-two receptions and led the league with twelve receiving touchdowns (he also had a rushing touchdown that year).[2] Moore is immortalized in the famous "Helicopter Catch" video clip—while making a reception against the New York Jets in Giants Stadium in 1984, he was hit simultaneously from opposite directions by two Jets tacklers sending his body spinning into the air. The catch was a crucial third-down conversion, leading to a score and a come-from-behind win in a closely contested divisional game.

By the time Moore retired at the end of 1986, his thirteenth season with the Dolphins, he had broken almost every receiving record of the Dolphins; his team records, however, were subsequently broken by Dolphins wide receivers Mark Clayton and Mark Duper in the 1980s and 1990s.

His final career receiving statistics were 510 catches for 7,547 yards and seventy-four touchdowns.[1] He also rushed for 249 yards and a touchdown, returned twenty-seven punts for 297 yards, and gained 856 yards on thirty-three kickoff returns.[1]


Percy Harvins had 353 receptions for 4000 yards, 2010 pro bowl as a KR.

 

[MJMGator]

Those guys all played in pass heavy offenses. Hell, Collinsworth was a QB his first year. We haven’t had but a few better than him as WR.

 

[78]

Collinsworth's numbers were undoubtedly capped by the lack of quality quarterbacking during his four years.

1977 Terry LeCount
1978 John Brantley
1979 Larry Ochab, Tim Groves, Tyrone Young
1980 Wayne Peace as a true freshman

His numbers weren't gaudy but I'd probably rank him among the seven or eight best at the position at UF.

 

[stephenPE]

I would say he is probably the best pro. Nats Moore is the other competitor.

http://www.nfl.com/player/weschandler/2511345/profile

Wesley Sandy Chandler (born August 22, 1956) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiverin the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. He was selected to the Pro Bowl four times, and ranked twelfth in NFL history in receiving yards and thirteenth in receptions when he retired. Chandler is a member of the San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame. He played college football for the Florida Gators and was also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015.

Playing as a receiver in a run-oriented wishbone offense at Florida, Chandler set a school record with 28 touchdowns. He was named both an All-American and an Academic All-American in 1977

 

[Theologator]

http://www.nfl.com/player/weschandler/2511345/profile

Beat me to it, Coach. As pros, I think it goes:

Wes Chandler 8966 yds, 56 TDs

Nat Moore 7546 yds, 74 TDs

Cris Collinsworth 6698 yds 36 TDs

Ike Hilliard 6397 yds, 35 TDs

Collinsworth was the second WR Cincinnati drafted in 1981. They took David Verser of Kansas in the first round (10th pick) and Collinsworth in the second (37th pick). Verser racked up a mighty 473 yards and 3 TDs over 4 years with the Bungles. Ha.

 

[lizardbreath]

Beat me to it, Coach. As pros, I think it goes:

Wes Chandler 8966 yds, 56 TDs

Nat Moore 7546 yds, 74 TDs

Cris Collinsworth 6698 yds 36 TDs

Ike Hilliard 6397 yds, 35 TDs

Collinsworth was the second WR Cincinnati drafted in 1981. They took David Verser of Kansas in the first round (10th pick) and Collinsworth in the second (37th pick). Verser racked up a mighty 473 yards and 3 TDs over 4 years with the Bungles. Ha.

Thanks for including Wes Chandler in the Pro side of things. He was at UF during the Dickey wishbone era and would have been a true college phenom playing for Spurrier. I still think he was the best "pure" WR ever at UF. I know - Percy, yada, yada, yada. Wes was a straight-up WR, Percy was all over the field, doing things that normal players can't do - NTTAWWT.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Thanks Corch. I just slipped on that. I do, barely, remember the end of Chandler's run in the pros. Same with Nats really but Nats being associated w the program doing broadcasts makes him ingrained as a Gator though, as ancient as ive become, I dont remember either in orange and blue.

Funny because I do love Air Corryell ball, probably the closest offense to Spurrier ball, so Chandler's stats benefit from that.

However stats are what we use. Anything else is just unrealized potential even if the player was wasted in a Doug Dickey/Dan Mullen option boring ball offense and used primarily as blocking backs and decoys to hold corners and safeties.