Fitzgerald closing in on yards receiving milestone
Cardinals WR needs 33 yards to pass Terrell Owens for 2nd all-time in NFL history
TEMPE — Larry Fitzgerald is closing in on another milestone, and it’s an impressive one.
The 35-year-old receiver needs to catch just 33 yards worth of passes Sunday at Kansas City to move past Hall of Famer Terrell Owens into second place on the NFL’s all-time yards receiving list.
As usual, Fitzgerald brushed aside talk of the milestone in his weekly meeting with the media Thursday.
“Honestly, I don’t really think about it,” he said.
Modesty aside, there’s no doubt that Fitzgerald is very aware of his place among the greats in the game.
Halfway through his 15th season, Fitzgerald has 15,902 yards receiving, behind Owens’ 15,934 and Jerry Rice’s phenomenal 22,895.
Fitzgerald needs 58 catches to pass Tony Gonzalez for second on the NFL career receptions list. Fitzgerald has 1,268 catches to Gonzalez’s 1,325 and Rice’s 1,549. Fitzgerald also is closing in on Rice’s record for receptions with one team. Fitzgerald, who has spent his entire career with the Cardinals, needs 14 receptions to pass the 1,281 catches Rice had with the San Francisco 49ers.
There are numbers that Fitzgerald will talk about with pride, and that’s what he’s accomplished in the postseason.
He has 942 yards receiving in nine postseason games, most of any player in his first nine playoff contests. His three 150-yard playoff receiving games are most in NFL history. His five 100-yard games are tied for third all-time, behind Michael Irvin and Rice. Fitzgerald is tied for third in post-