Ranking top 10 WRs for 2020 NFL season M

It's top-10 week here at CBSSports.com. On Monday, my colleague Sean Wagner-McGough walked through the . On Tuesday, Patrik Walker unveiled the . In the space below, we'll reveal the top 10 wide receivers.So, the natural question here: Is this is a ranking of the league's best receivers in a vacuum, or the receivers we expect to have the best 2020 seasons?To those questions, I would simply say: "Yes." It's our attempt to combine those things as best we can, taking a look at how each of the league's best wideouts has performed in their current role, the context surrounding that performance, all kinds of narrower statistics to highlight different parts of their respective skill sets, what we can expect from them in the 2020 season, and more.The deepest of apologies go out to our final cuts (in alphabetical order): , , , , , and . Realistically, you could swap out any of the players from 6 to 10 on our board for any one of them and I wouldn't argue very much. They're all that close. Without further ado ...10. Odell Beckham Jr., I know this seems a bit crazy at first glance. But consider this: over the past three seasons, Beckham is carrying per-16-games averages of 88 catches, 1,194 receiving yards, and six touchdowns. That's what he did in what are universally considered "down" Darren Daulton Jersey years; with and playing what could only be described as terrible football; and with Beckham himself suffering a string of injuries that either kept him out for extended time (2017 and 2018) or meant he played hobbled for the entire season (2019), and which limited him to only 32 of 48 po sible games during that span.It's clear that Beckham has a ceiling that is much higher than what we've seen from him over these past three seasons, as he showed by averaging 107-1,534-13 on a per-16-games basis during his first three years in the league. If he can stay healthy and get something resembling competent quarterback play, he's a clear-cut top-five wideout.The injuries are largely what's been keeping him from reclaiming that perch, though it's notable that his yards per route run average has dipped from 2.46 during Nick Pivetta Jersey his first three NFL seasons to 2.02 over the past three, per Pro Football Focus. The latter figure is still good enough to rank inside the top quartile of moderate-to-high volume receivers in the league in most seasons, though; and it's also better than what any of Diggs (1.98), Golladay (1.95), Lockett (1.97), Robinson (1.77), or Woods (1.90) have averaged in their current roles. Beckham's figure trails that of Kupp (2.11) but Beckham has handled larger volume (149 targets per 16 games vs. 116 for Kupp) and, despite struggles last season, has undoubtedly dealt with worse QB play as well. BAL WR #3 9. , Godwin is coming off a monster season in which he racked up an 86-1,333-9 line in just 14 games. He e sentially took on co-No. 1 duties along with , drawing 121 targets to Evans' 118. (Evans played 13 games.) Godwin looked extremely comfortable in the role, registering career-best figures in yards per game, per catch, and per target, while also hauling in 71 percent of the pa ses thrown in his direction, the 10th-best mark among 38 players who were targeted at least 100 times last season.Godwin did most of his work in the slot, aligning there on 63 percent of his routes, per Pro Football Focus. His 50 receptions from the slot tied for ninth-most in the NFL, while his 838 receiving yards out of the slot were second-most in the league behind only Kupp. Among 47 wideouts who ran at least 150 slot routes, Godwin's yards per route run average ranked fourth-best. He also did an excellent job establishing Sean Rodriguez Jersey himself as a deep threat, catching 10 of 17 pa ses thrown his way that traveled at least 20 yards in the air. That 59 percent catch rate ranked fourth-best among 58 receivers who drew at least 10 deep targets. It's entirely po sible that Godwin shoots up this list even further with his performance in 2020, but he has just a one-season track record as a truly elite contributor, and he was not quite as effective when aligned on the outside as he was in the slot. As such, a place in the back half of the top-10 felt appropriate. TB WR #14 8. , A few years ago, it was looking like Allen might just be one of those guys who would never stay healthy. After kicking off his career with back-to-back 70-plus-catch seasons, Allen played only nine games in the final two years of his rookie deal. He suffered a lacerated kidney that caused him to mi s eight games in 2015, then tore his ACL in his first game back in 2016. All he's done since is solidify himself as one of the most consistently excellent receivers in the league. His season-long lines over the past three years: 102-1,393-6 in 2017; 97-1,196-6 in 2018; and 104-1,199-6 in 2019. See what I mean? Consistency.Perhaps the best route-runner in the NFL, Allen is seemingly always open. His 68 percent catch rate over the past three seasons is one of the best in the league among high-volume players, and while he tends to run shorter routes than some of the other true No. 1 guys (12.5 yards per reception from 2017 through 2019), he makes up for it with his efficiency. Allen has averaged 2.34 yards per route run over the past three seasons, a better figure than several players who finished ahead of him on this list. LAC WR #13 7. Mike Evans, Buccaneers Evans has been a star from the moment he stepped on an Jay Bruce Jersey NFL field. He's carrying career per-16-games averages of 82 catches, 1,291 yards, and nine touchdowns, and a strong 2.18 yards per route run average. (He's played 90 of 96 po sible games.) He's one of the league's premier deep threats, catching at least seven pa ses thrown 20-plus yards in the air in each of his six seasons, and scoring at least three touchdowns on deep throws in four of those six campaigns.The only real knock on him is his catch rate, which is very low at only 55.3 percent. That pales in comparison to just about every other player on this list. While some of that is due to the fact that Evans draws so many downfield targets, he's also dropped 44 pa ses in his career, giving him a drop rate of about 5.3 percent. (It's nearly equal to his 5.7 percent touchdown rate.)Still, Evans' ability to handle incredible volume (148 targets per 16 games), create plays downfield (26 touchdowns on deep throws), and maintain per-route consistency and excellence despite wildly inconsistent quarterback play from the likes Larry Andersen Jersey of , , , and throughout his career, all combine to make him a surefire star. TB WR #13 6. , I can hear the complaints already. Cooper ahead of Evans? Really?Well ... for his career, Evans averages an 82-1,291-9 line per 16 games. Since arriving in Dallas, Cooper has averaged 84-1,225-9 per 16 games, and he's done it on considerably lower target volume. (He's played all 25 games.) He's also got a much hig