Note: Go to the bottom of the table for a more complete explanation of how Aaron's QB rating system works.

Every week at Snap Judgment, I rate the top quarterbacks of the week. But every pass needs someone to catch it, and we can rate the best and worst receivers in the same way. I thought this week we would look at the best receivers of the week and the season.

Rating receivers works a bit differently from quarterbacks. Just like the QBs, we're including both complete and incomplete passes. Turnovers work differently: interceptions for QBs become incompletes for receivers, but fumbling after catching the pass is a pretty big penalty that doesn't show up in the QB rating. Wide receivers, tight ends, and running backs only get compared to players at the same position.

Here are the top receivers from Week 16, not counting Monday night:

T. Gonzalez      6.9 DPAR    11-of-12, 124 yards, 2 TD
B. Stokley       5.9 DPAR     7-of-10, 123 yards, TD
P. Burress       5.7 DPAR     3-of-3,   97 yards, TD
J. Galloway      5.1 DPAR     9-of-11,  98 yards, TD
L. Evans         5.1 DPAR     8-of-9,   92 yards, 2 TD
M. Muhammad	 4.9 DPAR     8-of-10, 115 yards, 2 TD, fumble
M. Harrison	 4.8 DPAR     6-of-9,  111 yards
N. Burleson	 4.7 DPAR     2-of-2,  110 yards, TD

Where's Donald Driver? Despite 162 yards, he only had 4.2 DPAR, partly because he had six passes thrown his way fall incomplete and partly because his rating gets penalized because the Minnesota defense isn't any good.

And the worst receivers from Week 16:

T. Edwards      -4.4 DPAR    3-of-6,   24 yards, fumble
D. Terrell      -3.4 DPAR    2-of-10,  10 yards
M. Jenkins	-3.3 DPAR    0-of-6
P. Price        -2.9 DPAR    6-of-15,  49 yards
C. Moore	-2.7 DPAR    0-of-5

For most of the season, the top ranking among receivers rotated between Terrell Owens, Hines Ward and Reggie Wayne, but this week a surprising new No. 1 emerged: rookie Michael Clayton of Tampa Bay, with 40.5 DPAR. The rest of the top five goes Reggie Wayne, Mushin Muhammad, Joe Horn and Brandon Stokley. The worst receiver this season, worth -12.8 DPAR, is Chicago's Bobby Wade.

With his big game this week, Tony Gonzalez (37.9 DPAR) passed Antonio Gates (35.6 DPAR) for the top spot among tight ends, and those two guys are way ahead of everyone else. The worst tight end of the season has been Boo Williams of New Orleans (-12.7 DPAR).

The top receiver among running backs is not much of a surprise: Brian Westbrook at 15.1 DPAR. Edgerrin James is second, which shows just how much Manning is spreading it around. Fred Beasley of the 49ers rates as the worst pass-catching running back at -6.9 DPAR. You can find the complete rankings for WRs, TEs and RBs at footballoutsiders.com.