Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald doesn’t deny that he cares about numbers, both those on his paycheck and the statistics by his name.
But he insisted on Sunday that passing Cris Carter and Marvin Harrison to move into third place on the NFL’s all-time receptions list was not the most important thing accomplished.
“The thing I’m most happy about is it came in a winning effort,” he said. “A tough, hard-fought game at home that we definitely needed. It’s always nice to be able to climb up a little higher, but it is humbling to know that I am still 400 catches behind Jerry Rice.