Greatest UH wide receiver?

  • Deontay Greenberry
  • Nathaniel “Tank” Dell
  • Manny Hazard
  • Tyron Carrier
  • Patrick Edwards
  • Vincent Marshall
  • Orlando Iglesias
  • Other
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Have at it

I don’t know if he was the best but my favorite is Patrick Edwards.

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Elmo Wright

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Elmo Wright and Jason Phillips should be on the list. No question about it.

A few others to jog people’s memory. These are ones that immediately come to mind. Not saying these are the best but this is a nice forum to take a trip down memory lane:

Tyron Carrier
Eddie Foster
Don Bass
Kenny Hebert

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Elmo by a mile

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Can’t believe Elmo was left off!!

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I gotta generate controversy somehow

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You should do a poll on who will score UH’s first TD this season.

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Dell and Edwards were really, really good … but I gotta go with Elmo Wright.

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Definitely Elmo. Everyone else fighting for 2nd.

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Eric Herring

???

He caught 58 passes in his entire UH career.

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If you don’t say Elmo or Hazard, you’re wrong. I’ll let others make the valud claim for Elmo, but I’ll make the argument for Hazard.

That 1989 passing juggernaut had as much to do with Hazard as Ware. Some Hazard stats (11 games):

142 receptions. That’s 45% of all WR receptions. The next WR had 35. Hazard had 107 more re eptions than 2nd place. The 2 RBs had about 25 more receptions each than the 2nd WR.

Hazard had 1689 yards, 40% of WR yards. Nex had 694 yards, almost 1000 less.
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Hazard had 22 TD receptions. That’s 44% of WR TDs. No one else had double digits. Spoon had 12 TDs rushing and receiving for 2nd in total TDs.

Ware gets all the well deserved accolades for that offense, but Hazard was his only consistent WR.

You can argue Philips had similar numbers in 1988 and I agree that makes him an all time great, but he also had Dixon to share the load.

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I didn’t see Elmo on the list so I forgot about Elmo. He’s definitely the best.

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When you are running different offenses, statistics can be your friend or your enemy. Of course a Run & Shoot receiver will have better stats than a receiver who played in the Veer offense. If you rely on statistics, you can make a case that Wright is not in the conversation.

However I will point out one statistic for Wright that still stands out. Wright still leads UH by averaging 21.9 yds. per catch. Patrick Edwards, the all-time yardage leader, averaged 15.5.

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Honorable mention to Donnie Avery

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Another joke poll without Elmo Wright lol

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Elmo!!!

Patrick Edwards- the injury he sustained at Marshall would end some people’s careers. And if they do come back from an injury like that, they aren’t the same player. He came back and dominated his position.

Simply amazing

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No thread about Elmo Wright can exist without mentioning his dance, the “High Step”, which was the first end zone dance in football. Think about that for a second. Now, everyone from Pop Warner to the NFL do TD dances.

It actually started against Florida, when a DB dissed Wright, and guess who scored a TD against that DB.

BTW, Wright is in the College Football Hall of Fame.

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