14 Guys You’ve Never Heard Of That Are Better Than Michael Clayton

I don't know who these guys are, but I'd take any one of them over Clayton

How bad is Michael Clayton?

We decided that we needed a more concrete answer to this question than just "he sucks".  How bad is he really?  So to answer the question, we did a little investigative journalism, and some exhaustive editing, and came up with a list of 14 wide receivers in the NFL that had better stats than Michael Clayton.  Oh yeah, and we tried to find guys that you literally had never heard of. 

So what were the criteria, how did we come up with the list?  Well first, we decided to compile a list of guys that had better statistics than Michael Clayton in every metric.  In other words, there were some guys that had more catches but less yards, so we scratched them out.  There were some guys with more yards but less catches, so we scratched them out.  There were some guys with more drops but less...just kidding, nobody has more drops than Clayton.  And of course nobody has less TD's than Clayton, so that one doesn't matter.

Then we went over the list again and took out the guys that you shouldn't have ever heard of, but did because they were in some way high profile like Sidney Rice who plays with Brett Favre or Pierre Garcon who plays in Indy or Louis Murphy that nobody outside of Florida knows but you do. 

We can't believe we're saying this but we were actually very fair to Clayton in compiling this list.  There were lots of guys that we felt belonged on the list, but we took them out because we thought someone might have heard of them (besides just the true fantasy geeks).

So here it is, 15 guys that you've never heard of that are better than Michael Clayton.  (And we're sure they probably all get paid far less, but we didn't do the research to confirm it)  Also, interesting note: there are three guys on this list (meaning they have better stats than Clayton) that play in St. Louis, the worst offense in the NFL.  Now if that doesn't tell you how bad Michael Clayton is then you just don't get it.

Donnie Avery - St. Louis - 2nd year out of Houston
rec-19 yds-213 td-2
last year-3td

Earl Bennett - Chicago - 2nd year out of Vanderbilt
rec-19 yds-257 td-0
last year-no catches

Davone Bess - Miami - 2nd year out of Hawaii
rec-23 yds-175 td-0
last year-1td

Mark Bradley - Kansas City - 5th year out of Oklahoma
rec-15 yds-177 td-1
last year-3td (on 30 receptions)

Keenan Burton - St. Louis - 2nd year out of Kentucky
rec-17 yds-171 td-0
last year-1td

Greg Camarillo - Miami - 4th year out of Stanford
rec-14 yds-119 td-0
last year-2td

Austin Collie - Indianapolis - Rookie out of Brigham Young
rec-20 yds-228 td-3
last year-at BYU (he's only got 1 start)

Julian Edelman - New England - Rookie out of Kent State
rec-21 yds-188 td-0
last year-at Kent State (he was a quarterback)

Bryant Johnson - Detroit - 7th year out of Penn State
rec-17 yds-207 td-1
last year-3td (never gone a season w/o a TD unlike our #80)

Josh Morgan - San Francisco - 2nd year out of Virginia Tech
rec-13 yds-202 td-1
last year-3td

Laurent Robinson - St. Louis - 3rd year out of Illinois State
rec-13 yds-167 td-1
last year-5 recs

Mike Sims-Walker - Jacksonville - 3rd year out of UCF
rec-28 yds-398 td-3
last year-1 start 16-recs

Jerheme Urban - Arizona - 6th year out of Trinity
rec-15 yds-172 td-0
last year-4tds (this guy plays behind Fitzgeral, Boldin & Breaston)

Mike Wallace - Pittsburgh - Rookie out of Mississippi
rec-18 yds-296 td-1
last year-at Mississippi