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The Best Big-Play Duos in the NFL

November 4, 2016   ·     ·   Jump to comments

In football, few things get the fans on their feet quite like long bombs down the field. And the big-play duos here are the best in the NFL at completing them.
To find the most prolific combinations of receivers capable of stretching the field and the quarterbacks who feed them, we can look to play-by-play data from Pro-Football-Reference.com.
While it's not a perfect method, sorting for the receivers with the most receptions of 20 yards or longer over the least three seasons (2016 included) and then excluding the receivers who have had more than one quarterback gives us an objectively killer list.
A.J. Green (45 receptions of 20-plus yards) Rob Gronkowski (51 receptions of 20-plus yards) Antonio Brown (52 receptions of 20-plus yards) T.Y. Hilton (53 receptions of 20-plus yards) Julio Jones (72 receptions of 20-plus yards) While a few of those receptions over the last three years may have come from quarterbacks other than those in this slideshow, the fact that all fiv...

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