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Puka Nacua posted the best wide receiver impact score in the NFL last season — so why isn't he the consensus WR1? And how does Ja'Marr Chase, the most heavily targeted receiver in football, land fifth in the same model? Pro Football Network's wide receiver impact scoring exists for exactly this argument: five names almost everyone agrees belong at the top, and no two fans who agree on the order. So the order came from the numbers instead of the noise. One receiver cleared the field by more than 25 receiving EPA. Another led the league in receiving yards and still finished second. A third turned a change of scenery into the most productive yards-after-catch season in football. What the model says about the top of this position is sharper than the takes flying around it, and one score sits in rare company going back to 1999. We cover all this, plus Jaxon Smith-Njigba's case for the top spot and the rest of the top five, in a definitive five-deep ranking hosted by PFN's Jacob Infante. Ev...

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