I’m being a homer. I think Smith is better than Johnson. They played in 2 different eras.

Smith retired as 9th all time. And these talking heads never bring up that he didn’t start playing full time until the age 26 in which he came back from a broken leg. He was also suspended one of the years he didn’t get to 1,000 yards. Smith basically gave all the great WRs a 3 year head start.

And between 1996 to 1998 no WR had a better 3 year span than Smith. Not even Jerry Rice or Randy or Terrell. At that time Smith was the best WR in football, number wise.

Don’t get me started

He likely would have played in 2006 if things were different. But the off field stuff hurt him. I’m glad we didn’t have social media back then.

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