ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky: Calvin Ridley is clearly the AFC South’s best WR
The Jacksonville Jaguars are the only AFC South team that seems comfortable with their quarterback situation, and according to ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky, it’s the team with the best receiver in the division, as well.
“Very clearly, he’s a No. 1 receiver in the NFL,” Orlovsky said Monday on NFL Live. “If he’s anything like he was back in the day, the Jaguars on paper have a top three, top four offense. And now we’re talking about, in their division, they have the best quarterback and they have clearly the best receiver if Calvin Ridley is even a shell of who he was in the past.”
Ridley, 28, finished 2020 — his last full NFL season — fifth in the league in receiving yards with 1,374. That’s a total no player in the AFC South has topped.
The only other receiver in the division who has ever eclipsed 1,200 yards is Brandin Cooks and he’s made it clear that he doesn’t want to be on the Houston Texans roster anymore.
After Cooks, the Jaguars’ Christian Kirk and soon-departing Marvin Jones Jr., as well as the Indianapolis Colts’ Michael Pittman Jr., are the only receivers who have reached 1,000 yards in a season.
Ridley will be nearly two years removed from his last NFL game when he makes his Jacksonville debut in the fall. But it’s hard to argue with Orlovsky’s assertion that the Jaguars have both the best quarterback and best receiver in the AFC South.
