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First-ballot Hall of Famer receivers

A list of receivers Randy Moss hopes he'll join in 2018.

By Mark Craig

February 12, 2017 at 5:00AM

Former San Francisco 49ers great Jerry Rice poses with his bust after enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan) ORG XMIT: OHMD121 (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Wide receivers Terrell Owens, Randy Moss and Isaac Bruce rank 2-4 in career receiving yards in the NFL (Jerry Rice is No. 1). Owens and Bruce were 2017 Hall of Fame finalists; Moss will join them on the 2018 ballot. Here are the five modern-era wide receivers who have reached the HOF on the first try along with the year the player was elected.

1973: Raymond Berry

1978: Lance Alworth

1983: Paul Warfield

1995: Steve Largent

2010: Jerry Rice

about the writer

Mark Craig

Sports reporter

Mark Craig has covered the NFL nearly every year since Brett Favre was a rookie back in 1991. A sports writer since 1987, he is covering his 30th NFL season out of 37 years with the Canton (Ohio) Repository (1987-99) and the Star Tribune (1999-present).