JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Allen Hurns agrees with his quarterback: The Jacksonville Jaguars have the best wide receiver duo in the NFL.

Two days after Blake Bortles said during an appearance on NFL Network's "NFL HQ" that Hurns and Allen Robinson are the best combo in the league, Hurns said the same thing during an interview with ESPN.

There are two reasons: In 2015, they generated more yards and touchdowns on fewer catches than nearly all the other tandems and they're younger. They're the only tandem of players with at least 60 catches each that are entering their third seasons in the league.

"We are the No. 1 duo in the league," Hurns said. "You just look at what we've done this past season. Even though guys like Brandon Marshall and [Eric] Decker did a tremendous job, [and] Demaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders, but you look at it as far as we probably had like 50 less catches combined than all of those guys and our yardage is up there. As far as touchdowns, the same thing.

"Last year around this time, the talk was we needed a veteran receiver or we probably needed to draft a receiver. It's just exciting just to see how far we came and the most exciting thing about it is that was only Year 2. We've got time to grow."

Allen Hurns, who was undrafted out of Miami in 2014, caught 64 passes for 1,031 yards and 10 touchdowns last season. AP Photo/Nick Wass

There were only eight receiver duos intact for 2016 in which each a receiver caught at least 60 passes in 2015. This criteria disqualified two other duos -- Cincinnati's A.J. Green and Marvin Jones and Detroit's Golden Tate and Calvin Johnson -- because they won't be playing together in 2016. Johnson has retired and Jones is now with the Lions.

Hurns and Robinson combined to catch 144 passes for 2,431 yards and 24 touchdowns. That was the sixth-most receptions, but the third-most yards and the second-most touchdowns. Only Marshall/Decker (2,529) and Thomas/Sanders (2,439) had more yards and only Thomas/Sanders (26) had more touchdowns.

Here are the eight pairs of receivers in which each player had at least 60 catches and will play together in 2016, listed in order of total catches in 2015:

Notes: If you add Golden Tate's numbers from Detroit and Marvin Jones' numbers from Cincinnati, they combined for 155 catches for 1,629 yards and 13 TDs.

There's also an argument to be made in Green Bay, as Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb combined for 189 catches for 2,806 yards and 25 touchdowns in 2014. Nelson missed the 2015 season after an ACL tear.