Tania Ganguli discusses the rise in dazzling one-handed catches in the NFL by receivers such as Odell Beckham Jr. and DeAndre Hopkins and why these plays are much more prevalent now.
They are the most beautiful part of a broken-nose sport.
While most of football smashes and grunts, receivers dance. They take their strength and inject grace, tiptoeing inbounds, reaching to the sky to snag the ball out of the air, like a 6-foot-2, 220-pound ballerina.
It is that spirit that has fostered the rise of the one-handed catch. When New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr.