Is Saints receiver group one of NFL’s top 10?

The New Orleans Saints offense looks loaded like almost no other in the NFL heading into 2016.

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Drew Brees has the rising stars in Willie Snead and Brandin Cooks at wideout, plus talented tight end Coby Fleener and rookie Michael Thomas. As such, it’s easy to assume their wide receiving core would be a top-10 unit.

Well, not so fast, according to Bleacher Report’s Russell S. Baxter. He ranked the top-10 wide receiving groups in the NFL, and I was a bit surprised to not see the Saints on there at all.

It was hard to disagree with the top eight, but putting Cincinnati (10,) and Seattle (nine,) on the list was rather shocking to me. Cooks had 84 catches for 1,138 yards and nine touchdowns while Snead had 69 for 984 yards and three touchdowns.

Doug Baldwin, for Seattle, had 78 catches for 1,069 yards and an incredible 14 touchdowns. Maybe we can call him and Cooks a wash, though I’d wager that Baldwin’s 2015 season won’t be duplicated.

The next top guy? Jermaine Kearse: 49 catches, 685 yards and five touchdowns, so definitely not as good as Snead.

As for Cincinnati, no doubt A.J. Green is a top-five wide receiver, but Brandon LaFell is not much of a name to be excited about. What was also surprising was the Denver Broncos (Emmanuel Sanders and Demaryius Thomas,) and New York Jets (Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker,) were not on the list.

Without a doubt, you have to think the Saints deserve a top-10 spot. Then again, this is all opinion-based, and Baxter is one of the more credible writers around. But I’ll respectfully disagree with the top-10 wideouts he listed, as New Orleans stands out as a top-seven group at worst.

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