Oklahoma football: Ranking the top seven wide receivers in Sooner history

The number seven has special significance for the Oklahoma football program. The Sooners have won seven national championships and seven OU players have won the Heisman Trophy, the most coveted individual prize in college football.

Playing off of that meaningful number in the tradition-rich history of Sooner football, we are introducing a continuing series of articles ranking the top seven players in Oklahoma history at seven different position groups. We begin with the top-seven wide receivers in school history.

The long and storied history of the Oklahoma football Sooners features many great wide receivers, so picking out just seven of them to write about is no easy task. Ranking those seven is even more difficult.

There is no definitive way to differentiate between players from the glory days of the Bud Wilkinson era, the brash dominance of the Barry Switzer era, or the sustained success of the program in the 21st century under Bob Stoops, Lincoln Riley and now Brent Venables.

The wide receiver position itself has grown and evolved so much as the sport has changed and offenses have continued to adapt. A position that had been primarily about blocking in the Wishbone and triple-option days is much more glamorous and utilized in the spread era we see today.

This list only includes wide receivers, so the tight ends and h-backs will be omitted from these rankings. Here are the power rankings for the seven all-time greatest receivers in Oklahoma Sooners football history.