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Do the Philadelphia Eagles Have a Clear-Cut Number One Wide Receiver?
With DeSean Jackson no longer in the fold, do the Eagles have a true number one wide receiver on the team in 2014? Will they even need one?

With the departure of wide receiver and three-time Pro Bowler CBS Philly.

That's exactly what the Eagles did, by drafting a pair of receivers in Jordan Matthews and Josh Huff last month, as well as releasing slot guy here, Foles and Maclin developed quite the chemistry in the six games they played together in 2012. Maclin recorded 37 catches for 479 yards and 3 touchdowns, including a game-winning catch against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as time expired.

If you take those numbers and extrapolate them to a 16 game season, Maclin roughly projects to around 99 catches for 1,277 yards and 8 touchdowns. Those types of numbers would put Maclin more in line with some of the NFL's top receivers.

One potentially alarming observation from the above table on Maclin is that he steadily declined after his breakout year in 2010. However, it would be illogical to put too much stock into that because the Eagles were terrible in 2011 and 2012.

If he can manage to stay healthy and continue to produce at a level similar to his first four years, the Eagles offense won’t skip a beat. After all, the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts.

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