Ryan Broyles...and it's not even close.
IMO
How could anybody in OU history, be better than the guy who set the all time NATIONAL record for receptions?
Of course it's not even close. I'll tell you a couple of underrated guys: Steve Rhodes and P.J. Mills. Loved both of those guys.
I'm good with Mark Clayton at two. Anybody else would be a mishmash. Eddie Hinton was a first round draft pick when that was a lot harder to be. There were only 26 teams drafting. He'd have to be top five. He and Owens and Billy Brooks were often the only wides on most plays when they lined up, though Hinton played in the slot a lot.
Brooks was the 11th player picked in the 1976 draft. Kind of an irony. When I looked up the details of that in a search, he was listed as the seventh worst draft bust in Bengal history. Owens was a fourth rounder and played four years. Tinker caught 60 balls in the NFL. Billy 96.
Another guy who dealt with those horrible days of latent to blatant racism was Ben Hart. I believe Ben still holds the record for the longest td reception in Sooner history, from Ron Fletcher in the 1965 Gator Bowl, during a blowout loss to Florida State. That was the game where Ralph Neely, Lance Rentzel, Jim Grisham and Wes Skidgel had to stay home after signing NFL contracts after the 1964 regular season.
The only quarterback we had back then who could throw it at all, was Fletcher, the third or fourth team walkon, who they spotted in occasionally, when a sure pass was needed.
If Jack Mildren hadn't overthrown Jon Harrison with 90 seconds left in the GOTC, I'd have Jon on the list. That would have given him three for the day.
