Terrell Owens Snubbed Badly By NFL on Their Top 10 WR List
Terrell Owens has more receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns than almost every wide receiver that’s ever suited up for an NFL game, including almost every wide receiver listed on the NFL’s All-Time Team. While TO was among the 24 finalists for the 10 wide receiver spots, it was a ridiculous snub with no good reasoning behind it.
Here is the list:
- Jerry Rice (1,549 rec)
- Raymond Berry (631 rec)
- Don Hutson (488 rec)
- Paul Warfield (427 rec)
- Lance Alworth (542 rec)
- Randy Moss (982 rec)
- Larry Fitzgerald (1,370 rec)
- Steve Largent (819 rec)
- Marvin Harrison (1,102 rec)
- Elroy Hirsch (387 rec)
Over 1,000 combined receiving TDs by the 10 wide receivers on the #NFL100 All-Time Team! pic.twitter.com/u5IpALEYRD
— NFL Legacy (@NFLLegacy) December 21, 2019
Only Randy Moss and Jerry Rice have more career touchdowns than Owens, who ranks third all-time with 153, and Rice and Larry Fitzgerald are the only two guys on the list that top the 15,934 receiving yards that Owens amassed in his Hall of Fame career.
In terms of straight-up receptions, Terrell Owens had 1,078 of them in his career — more than seven of the players the NFL selected for their Top 10 list.
There was no good reason to leave TO off the list. He was outspoken, sure, but so was Randy Moss, and neither won a Super Bowl so that couldn’t have been a factor. It was a flub by the league, straight up.
Owens played 15 seasons in the NFL and probably should have played beyond his final season in 2010. His last season in the NFL resulted in 72 catches, 983 yards, and nine touchdowns in just 14 games.
The list was released on NFL Network as part of the league’s NFL100 celebration.
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