Based solely on their college career, who were Notre Dame's two best wide receivers ever?

rdijzia and Seymour the best hands, Rocket and Brown the ones the opposing defenses had to account for the most, Tate and Floyd great combination of speed and skill and Fuller was the greatest at getting open for the long bomb. As far as clutch players, well, all of the above, but Tate, Samardjia, and the Rocket, if you consider from several positions probably made the most clutch, timely needed plays. Remember Tennessee 1990 for the Rocket, Pitt for Tate, and MSU and UCLA for Samardijza.

If it's the latter, then no doubt, it was Raghib "Rocket" Ismail and Tim Brown, with Golden Tate coming in third.

Rocket could single handedly change the game. You had to account for him all of the time, and double cover him, or else he'd easily break free. As a punt and kickoff returner, he had no equal. He was also a very crafty downfield blocker.

His mere presence meant that teams were rarely able to play an 8 or 9 man front against us, without suffering serious consequences. In 1990, Rodney Culver and Ricky Watters had very nice seasons at the RB positions, because of that excellent offensive line, but what's often overlooked, is the fact that Rocket (and Tony Smith) spread the field vertically for us, often times taking that strong safety out of the box.

If you look at the two regular season losses to Stanford and Penn State, it wasn't a mere coincidence that after Rocket left those games with deep thigh bruises, that the opposing teams were able to crowd the line with that nine man front, and stop our running game cold. Of course, Ricky Watters and his butterfingers did more damage to us during the Stanford game with his two fumbled punt returns...


Now, in terms of pure receivers, it's debatable, but I would say Golden Tate and Jeff Samardzija. Both of those guys were bona fide #1 receivers who could make some truly amazing catches, hand hands of glue, and were two of the toughest hombres to play the game at that position.

Michael Floyd and Will Fuller would be the next two on my list.

So perhaps Guys like Gatewood and Tate were the best pass catchers.

Honorable mention: Golden Tate, Derrick Mayes, Jeff Samardzija,

Guy caught every pass thrown in his direction. Maybe his greatest catch (4th down td reception late in the 1993 BC game) is forgotten b/c of the game's outcome.

catches as well as Gatewood and Seymour to make the game winners.

with Tom Gatewood honorable mention..

Tim Brown and Floyd are the first two that come to mind though. It is not insignificant that they both had 4 full years. Several on your list didn't or were essentially nonexistent as freshman.