Marshall and Decker, following one of many touchdowns

That’s seven games where both players have scored touchdowns in the same game.  They are just the second pair of receivers to pull off this feat. And with two games remaining, it’s still possible for them to tie the NFL record for any pair of teammates. Today, let’s look at all duos to score a touchdown in at least seven games.

Nine Games

In 1995, Emmitt Smith rushed for 25 touchdowns, while Michael Irvin caught 10 touchdowns. Of course, Smith set a record by scoring a touchdown in 15 regular season games, the only player to ever do that. Irvin’s 10 touchdowns came in 10 games, and while he did catch a touchdown in the lone game in which Smith was left out of the end zone, that still leaves 9 games where both players scored a touchdown. Incredibly, Smith then scored in all three playoff games, while Irvin caught touchdowns in the Cowboys wins over Philadelphia and Green Bay, giving the duo 11 games that season where both scored a touchdown.

Eight Games

• In 1948, Alyn Beals and Johnny Strzykalski combined to score 25 touchdowns in 14 games for the San Francisco 49ers in the AAFC, including in six straight games beginning in week two, and eight games total.

• Eighteen years later, a pair of Cleveland Browns repeated that feat. That season, Leroy Kelly scored 16 touchdowns, Gary Collins had 12, and fullback Ernie Green had nine scores. But it was Kelly and Green that were most aligned: while Green scored in only nine games, Kelly scored in all but one of those contests (a 27-7 win over Philadelphia).

• Two years later, Kelly and Paul Warfield each scored in eight games for the Browns.

• Fifteen years later, on Washington’s famous 1983 team that set the scoring record, John Riggins and Charlie Brown pulled off this trick.

• In 1985, Roger Craig and Dwight Clark for the 49ers scored in eight games together, with a rookie Jerry Rice looking on.

• On the ’88 Rams, Greg Bell (who scored 18 touchdowns) and Henry Ellard matched this feat.

• In 2004, LaDainian Tomlinson and a young Antonio Gates scored together in eight separate games.

• Finally, in 2005, Shaun Alexander (who had 28 touchdowns) and … Joe Jurevicius (!) were the last duo to meet these criteria.  That year, Jurevicius set a career high with 10 touchdowns.

Seven Games

• In ’48, while Strzykalski and Beals scored in eight games together, Strzykalski also scored in seven games with teammates Joe Perry and quarterback Frankie Albert (who had eight rushing touchdowns).

• Five years later, Perry and receiver Billy Wilson scored in seven games for the 49ers.

• In 1960, Jim Brown and Bobby Mitchell pulled off this feat for the Browns; five years later, Brown matched this with Gary Collins.

• In 1966, Bob Hayes and Dan Reeves scored in seven separate games for the Cowboys.

• In 1975, O.J. Simpson and J.D. Hill scored in half of the Bills games.

• On the ’94 Cowboys, Smith and a wide receiver scored in seven games, but this time, it was Alvin Harper.

• In 1998, three pairs of teammates did this, including a pair of Jets (Curtis Martin and Keyshawn Johnson). In addition to Moss/Carter, Terrell Davis and Shannon Sharpe also scored in seven games together.

• 2006 brings us one of the more obscure combinations: Brian Westbrook and Reggie Brown on the Eagles.

• In 2008, two Titans running backs — Chris Johnson and LenDale White — each scored in seven games.

• In ’09, it was Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson joining forces with … Visanthe Shiancoe (!) to get on the list.

• Finally, in 2014, Jordy Nelson and Eddie Lacy scored in seven different games for the Packers.

Jacksonville’s Allen Robinson and Allen Hurns have scored a combined 20 touchdowns, and have caught scores in six games for the Jaguars, so they could wind up making this list, too. Of course, it should go without saying that there’s more than a bit of a trivia/flukiness aspect to this “record”, at least once you reach a minimum number of touchdowns.  But for a Jets offense that’s generally been only record-setting in futility in recent years, the rise of Marshall and Decker has been music to Jets’ fans ears.

Fitzpatrick is the team’s leading passer, Ivory the leading rusher, and Decker and Marshall the two leading receivers.

It’s very rare for a team’s top passer, top running back, and top two weapons in the passing game to all come from other teams. In fact, the 2015 Jets will become just the second team in the last 10 years to meet those criteria, and just the 12th since 1970. The question now is how well this core can sustain this high level of play. As you can see from the table below, which illustrates the first 11 teams that featured out-of-house core fours, success isn’t that common for teams of this type.

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