The one thing you can always count on with the passage of time is that our perception of how something evolves can change as much as the thing itself. The NFL is no different. We watch the games today and see players that are bigger, faster and stronger than anybody could've ever imagined. But that doesn't necessarily mean the athletes that thrive in this version of the league are undeniably better than the men who came before them.

Consider how expectations around pass-catchers have changed. It would be easy to assume players have only recently begun putting up mind-boggling receiving numbers, goosed by the rising prominence of aerial attacks around the league. But one of the first ceiling-smashing receiving seasons actually came three decades ago , in 1995, when five players -- Je

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