[Pudge714]

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2003-now.
Ask football fans "Who is the best receiver currently playing in the NFL?"
1992-1995
Ask football fans "Who is the best receiver currently playing in the NFL?"

In which period would you get a debate and in which period would you get near unanimity?

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does that mean that Albert Pujols today is better than Barry Bonds from 2001 (steroid issues aside)?

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No. It means that it is hard to consider a player the best of all time when he wasn't clearly the best in the game in any given year for a majority of his career

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How do you figure Rice would've fared if he'd come out of the 1996 draft. Rice isn't Jesus in cleets, he rran his routes sharp, kept himself in shape well past his physical prime, and was the smartest WR of his day. The same can (will) most likely be said about Harrison.

There are no numbers that can't be brought back to earth with a little dose of logic. Rice was the best WR ever to play. But seeing as how Harrison is almost a full seasons (14 games) ahead of him in terms of catches, it's not an impossibility that Harrison will eclipse Rice.

Cody

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The biggest flaw in your argument is that you are looking at the two eras as if they were the same.
Players greatness should be measured based on their performance relative to their peers.
Don Hutson would be a terrible WR in the current NFL does that make him a bad WR?