They have been on the receiving end of regular slander for months now.
Pro Football Focus ranked them 31st out of 32 units. Yahoo called them "clearly" the worst group in the NFL. And locally, the perception is about the same.
But Detroit Lions receivers coach Antwaan Randle El insisted Wednesday he has not heard the hate directed towards his receiving corps, and even if he did, he doesn't believe it anyway.
"I wouldn’t know about it," Randel El said. "They wouldn’t know about it. We don’t care."
The Lions overhauled their receiving corps this offseason.