The NFL’s 11 best slot receivers

With the three-receiver set the new default in the NFL, slot receivers are more important than ever. Here are the NFL’s 11 best.

8. Jared Cook, New Orleans Saints

Yes, tight ends can be slot receivers, too. And among all the slot targets on our list, nobody afforded his quarterbacks a higher passer rating than Cook did at 133.9. Cook caught 30 passes on 43 targets when detached from the formation for 482 yards and five touchdowns. Cook did drop four passes, but when he did take the ball in, he was a big play waiting to happen at 6-foot-5 and 254 pounds.

Cook isn’t the fleetest of foot at age 33, and he missed time with a concussion in 2019, but in New Orleans’ offense, he gives Drew Brees an imposing target, especially after the catch. Just ask all the poor defensive backs Cook threw aside last season like so many five-pound sacks of potatoes.

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