Comments on: Unsustainable (But Fun!) Stats Through Three Games http://www.footballperspective.com/unsustainable-but-fun-stats-through-three-games/ NFL History and Stats Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bryan Frye http://www.footballperspective.com/unsustainable-but-fun-stats-through-three-games/#comment-329161 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:15:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=35459#comment-329161 In reply to Chase.

I suppose I half appreciate the asterisk then. Forgot, for a moment, that you’re a Jets fan.

]]> By: Shattenjager http://www.footballperspective.com/unsustainable-but-fun-stats-through-three-games/#comment-329115 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 14:11:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=35459#comment-329115 This is Antonio Brown’s eighth season in the league and he is averaging 84.0 receiving yards per game (and that’s being dragged down by a rookie season in which he averaged 18.6 yards per game). Since we’re talking about receivers, we all know where we have to start looking: Jerry Rice in his first eight seasons averaged 82.4 yards per game.
The highest average in a player’s first eight seasons is Lance Alworth’s 92.5. For Brown to catch him, he would have to average 160.9 receiving yards per game for the rest of the season. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Brown is not going to do that. Alworth of course was playing in the AFL, including in its early days when it was not a very strong league, but his production was nonetheless incredible. He played three more seasons after that, with his production declining sharply.
Second is Calvin Johnson at 87.4. That encompasses almost his entire career, since he only played nine seasons. To catch him, Brown would need to average 115.0 yards per game the rest of the way this year. Brown has kept up something pretty close to that level of production for a year before, so I wouldn’t rule it out, but it’s pretty unlikely.

Third is Torry Holt at 84.7. To catch him, Brown would need to average 90.7 yards per game, which would be a low mark by his recent standards. Holt had one more excellent season then dropped off to merely good for two years before his career ended. Brown will likely be able to pass him for third all-time.
Julio Jones is in his seventh season averaging 96.0. He is insane.

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