Whether with Notre Dame football or anywhere else, judging wide receivers can be difficult. For one, eras change. If you go back far enough, no one would line up at wide receiver. They just had multiple ends. For the longest time teams wouldn’t pass until third down, or if they needed to score in a two minute drill. This is the era that produced the legendary Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, who said, “There are three things that can happen when you throw a pass, and two of them are bad.”
There’s some debate as to whether Hayes said that, with others arguing it was Tennessee’s General Neyland or Texas’ Darrell Royal.