In Week 4 of the 2019 NFL season, the great Larry Fitzgerald passed Tony Gonzalez on the all time receptions list. Fitzgerald, a sure fire future Hall of Famer, trails only Jerry Rice in this category despite playing many of his seasons in Arizona with subpar quarterbacks. He comes to MetLife Stadium to face the New York Giants in Week 7.
For three years, from the 2001-2003 seasons, I was the Assistant Recruiting Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh. During my first few days at Pitt, it became very clear that this staff was extremely excited about an incoming recruit from the state of Minnesota, an area that we didn’t regularly recruit.