Top 25 Wide Receivers Ranked: 2024 College Football News Preview

There were plenty of big-time receivers in 2023, but seven going in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft, and 11 selected among the top 52, were a whole lot, even for this pass-happy era.

Several receivers will breakout this year - the high-powered offenses will create the stars - but there aren't the powerhouses of the last few seasons ... yet.

There's a lot of explosion, a lot of No. 1 targets who'll come from different places - watch out for Elijah Sarratt from Indiana and Colorado State's Tory Horton, for example.

Our 25 best wide receivers going into the 2024 season are ...

2024 CFN Preseason All-Conference Teams
AAC | ACC | Big Ten | Big 12 | CUSA
IND | MAC | MWest | SEC | Sun Belt
College Football Preview 2024: All 134 Teams

2024 CFN Top 25 Position Rankings
QB | RB | WR | TE | OT | OG | OC
EDGE/DE | DT | LB | Safety | CB

1 Tetairoa McMillan, Jr. Arizona

2 Emeka Egbuka, Jr. Ohio State

3 Luther Burden, Jr. Missouri

4 Tory Horton, Sr. Colorado State

5 Brennan Presley, Sr. Oklahoma State

6 Tre Harris, Jr. Ole Miss

7 Jeremiah Hunter, Sr. Washington

8 Elic Ayomanor, Soph. Stanford

9 Nic Anderson, Soph. Oklahoma

10 Evan Stewart, Jr. Oregon

11 Ricky White, Sr. UNLV

12 Zachariah Branch, Soph. USC

13 Antwane Wells, Sr. Ole Miss

14 Caullin Lacy, Sr. Louisville

15 Kris Mitchell, Sr. Notre Dame

2024 CFN Top 25 Position Rankings
QB | RB | WR | TE | OT | OG | OC
EDGE/DE | DT | LB | Safety | CB

16 Kevin Concepcion, Soph. NC State

17 Xavier Restrepo, Sr. Miami

18 Kobe Hudson, Sr. UCF

19 Isaiah Neyor, Sr. Nebraska

20 Jalen Royals, Sr. Utah State

21 Jerjuan Newton, Sr. Toledo

22 Elijhah Badger, Sr. Florida

23 Elijah Sarratt, Jr. Indiana

24 Kyren Lacy, Soph. LSU

25 J Michael Sturdivant, Jr. UCLA

2024 CFN Preseason All-Conference Teams
AAC | ACC | Big Ten | Big 12 | CUSA
IND | MAC | MWest | SEC | Sun Belt
College Football Preview 2024: All 134 Teams