LSU Football History: Top-10 single-season receiving leaders
For much of LSU’s history, its football identity centered around physical defense and a ground-and-pound rushing attack.
However, over the last few decades, we’ve seen the offense modernize to utilize more spread formations. With that in mind, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that seven of the 10 best single-season receiving performances in program history have come since the turn of the century.
The Tigers have put all sorts of talented receivers into the league since then from Early Doucet to Dwayne Bowe to Odell Beckham Jr. to Jarvis Landry to Justin Jefferson and, most recently, Ja'Marr Chase.
Here are the 10 best single-season receiving performances in LSU history.
Wendell Davis (1987)
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Yards: 993
Touchdowns: 7
Eric Martin (1983)
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Yards: 1,064
Touchdowns: 5
Michael Clayton (2003)
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Yards: 1,079
Touchdowns: 10
Josh Reed (2000)
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Yards: 1,127
Touchdowns: 10
Odell Beckham Jr. (2013)
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Yards: 1,152
Touchdowns: 8
Jarvis Landry (2013)
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Yards: 1,193
Touchdowns: 10
Wendell Davis (1986)
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Yards: 1,244
Touchdowns: 11
Justin Jefferson (2019)
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Yards: 1,540
Touchdowns: 18
Josh Reed (2001)
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Yards: 1,740
Touchdowns: 7
Ja'Marr Chase (2019)
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Yards: 1,780
Touchdowns: 20
