Comparing Odell Beckham, Jarvis Landry to WRs in 2014 NFL Draft

Here is how Odell Beckham and Jarvis Landry rank in terms of production among the 2014 wide receiver draft class, a class with Davante Adams and Mike Evans

In our series of ranking Cleveland Browns players among their position groups in their respective draft classes, we have finally made our way over to the two most polarizing players on the Cleveland Browns’ roster: Odell Beckham Jr and Jarvis Landry.

OBJ and Landry were both taken in the 2014 NFL Draft, both coming out of LSU. The two best friends were among the best in an incredibly stacked wide receiver draft class. Among the 2014 wide receiver draft class are guys like Mike Evans, Davante Adams, Sammy Watkins, Allen Robinson, and Brandin Cooks.

This class, after seven seasons in the NFL, is still dominating the league today. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a list of the top 5 receivers in the NFL without at least two of the guys on this list being mentioned.

For this comparison, we are going to take a look at these players’ whole NFL careers, not just their tenure with one team. The only requirement was having played in 20 NFL games, and that was to try to cut out the anomalies of the data set.

With that being said, a whopping 25 players still qualified to be involved in this comparison. I will only be showing the top 10 in each statistic but will mention anyone notable if they don’t place within the top 10.

The statistics that we will be comparing these players on are as follows: yards per reception, total receiving touchdowns, receptions per game, yards per game, catch percentage, yards per target, pro bowls, total receptions, and total receiving yards. With that being said, let’s dive right into the comparison.

All statistics in this article are courtesy of pro-football-reference.com. They are a great resource if you would like to dive further into these players’ statistics.