NFL Player Power Rankings Week 3: Wide receivers

Welcome to FanSided’s weekly NFL Player Power Rankings. Every Tuesday throughout the season you can check out rankings for a different key position, including quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, and even the defensive star players. These power rankings will consist of the top twenty-five players at that given position. With 32 teams and only 25 spots that means that not every team’s players will make the cut. So make sure you check in every Tuesday to see if your favorite players made the list.

These rankings are NOT a list of the players with the most established and proven careers. That would favor the older players. They are also NOT a list of the players you would most want to build around going forward. That list would favor the younger players. No, this is a ranking of the best players at that position right now, today. The NFL is a “what have you done for me lately” kind of a league. So while early in the season the list will be influenced by previous performances, if later in the year James Jones is clearly outproducing Larry Fitzgerald then their rankings will reflect that regardless of what their general perception or reputation is.

This week we are looking at the wide receivers. With the heavy emphasis on the passing game in today’s NFL the league has seen a dramatic increase in the number of quality wide receivers. Twenty years ago it would have been difficult to find 25 WRs that were truly worthy of making a list like this. Today there are so many good wideouts to choose from that limiting the list to 25 is what becomes difficult. In order to make these power rankings at this point in the season a player must either be off to a fantastic start or be perceived as one of the absolute most talented players at the position. So who has made the cut and who fell just short?

Let’s find out……