College Football: Which team has the best receivers in 2019?

Which team has the best wide receivers in all of College Football? We’ll take a look here on Rubbing the Rock.

After watching the talented Clemson receivers on both the Orange and White teams live on ESPN, a question arised, which NCAA team has the best receivers?

Is it Clemson, Oklahoma, or Alabama?

In the Orange and White spring game, College Football Playoffs standouts Justyn Ross had four catches and 75 yards for the White and Tee Higgins had 5 catches, 55 yards and a touchdown for the Orange. But the talk of the day was the impressive play of early enrollee receivers Joseph Ngata and Frank Ladson.

Ngata led the Orange team with five catches for 127 yards, and Ladson the White team with five catches and 101 yards.

In Oklahoma’s Red-White spring game, Lee Morris had three receptions, 79 yards and one touchdown while returning All-Big 12 receiver CeeDee Lamb was absent. The freshmen trio of Trejan Bridges, Theo Wease and Jaden Haselwood combined for 8 receptions, 162 yards and two touchdowns in the game.

In Alabama’s A-Day spring game, Jerry Jeudy, the 2018 Biletnikoff Award, led the veteran receivers with five receptions, 105 yards and two touchdowns. Sophomore Devonta Smith(6, 95) and freshman Jaylen Waddle(4, 59, TD) were also in regular season form, but John Metchie, a four-star early enrollee, won A-Day MVP honors with five receptions and a game-high133 yards.

Metchie is Alabama’s lone receiver signee, and three-star Brannon Spector is already enrolled with Ngata and Ladson at Clemson. Both schools have recruited well at the position but Oklahoma’s class is 2019’s No. 1 class.

Haselwood, Wease and Bridges were all listed as five-stars by most recruiting sites. The Sooners are projected to make a third consecutive trip to the College Football Playoffs and it won’t happen without production from this group.

Oklahoma might have the best freshmen, but Alabama can field its on 4×100 relay team.

Jeudy, Smith, Waddle, Metchie, Henry Ruggs, Xavier Williams and Tyrell Shavers are all 4.5 to sub 4.4 sprinters. Ruggs(4.25 in the 40), is supposed to be the fastest of the group, but a recent video shows a photo finish between he and Waddle. Williams and Smith are former sprinters and the 6-foot-6 Shavers, also an outfielder on the Crimson Tide baseball team, once ran 4.38 in the 40 yard dash at Nike the Opening. It’s worth repeating-this group is fast.

In this category, Clemson is behind The Tide. Higgins and Ross can definitely stretch the field as evidenced by their respective 15.9 and 21.7 yards per catch averages, but neither is a road runner. Amari Rogers, Derion Kendrick and the freshmen are the speedsters here.

Which team is No.1? 

Auburn?

“We’re going to be the best receiving corps in the nation… forget Clemson and forget Alabama, we’re going to make some plays,” said Auburn receiver Matthew Hill after the spring game.

Hill is a confident player and Auburn has speed and talent at the position, but “the best receiving corps in the nation?”

Auburn has yet to name a starting quarterback and its reputation isn’t as a passing team, so it’s almost inconceivable to see them among any top 10 list, much less, be No. 1 in the country.