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Carson Heisman

CB Lito Sheppard, All-American in 2000.  Great punt returner, too.

Kevin Faulk
Career was probably in the shadow of his cousin, Marshall.  No, he wasn't Marshall.
But he left LSU as the SEC's 2nd all-time leading rusher.  He's still 4th.
Great all-around talent.

Lol.  Kevin Faulk.  I can’t think of him without thinking of NCAA Football ‘98 for the PlayStation.  I was in college and me and my buddies had a season going.  We all liked WVU so the rule was no one be WVU.  So, I was Syracuse because they had McNabb and I liked to scramble around.  One dude was BYU because he liked throwing it all the time.  And the other one was LSU with Kevin Faulk.  He ended up winning the NC and Faulk won the Heisman with something like over 2500 yards rushing.  When I hear Faulk’s name that game is still the first thing I think of.

I was thinking with all the passing, OU may be breaking the all-time receiving history books.  But looking at just the P5 career passing yardage leaders:
1. Broyles, OU
2. Washington, OKST
3. Woods, OKST
4. Wright, BAY
5. Walters, STAN
6. Hagan, ASU
7. Hass, ORST
8. Williams, TEX
9. Greene, FSU
10. Standeford, PUR


So I was wrong about OU career receivers.  Okie State is represented well.  But mostly what I draw from this is that the career receiving leaderboard is so full of non-P5 guys, that guys like Troy Walters, Roy Williams, and Rashad Greene may be underrated.  Hell, considering how big and fast he was, I thought of Williams as having had an underwhelming career, but that is incorrect.

OU has also had a good running game for much of the last 20 years.  And more balanced than people think when they hear "Mike Leach" and "Air Raid."  Last year, we had two 1,000-yard rushers (one was Kyler Murray) and were 40-ish yards from having a third one, as Trey Sermon missed a game or two due to an injury.  And that was after our leading rusher--Rodney Anderson--went down with a season-ending injury early in the season.  Considered in isolation, that would sound like a wishbone team.  And our team rushing last year was only 203 yards behind that of the 1975 wishbone/MNC team.

It seems like we've generally had at least two very good receivers, rather than a single bell-cow, so the yardage has been well-spread-around.  That might explain something.  Or not.

Also, there were a couple of years in the early teens (2013-14) when we struggled--relatively--on offense, and more in passing than rushing, as our QBs were Blake Bell and Trevor Knight--two great guys, but only so-so QBs.  It didn't matter how good our receivers were--those two guys could not hit them consistently.

Finally, I'm not sure how significant your list is, as it only shows ranking.  John Standeford of Purdue, your #10, is #30 on the list that includes all FCS teams.  Sterling Shepard, OU's next guy on the list, would be #48 on your lists, and is #73 on the FCS list.  Standeford has 3788 career receiving yards; Shepard has 3482.  306 yards of difference spread over 38 intervening P5 receivers.  They're jammed in there pretty tight.