Randy Moss making a victory sign
Randy Gene Moss was born on February 13th in the year 1977. He’s an American football wide receiver who played in the NFL for fourteen total seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, Las Vegas Raiders, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, and the San Francisco 49ers.
These days he is a sports analyst, but he’s considered one of the best wide receivers of all time. He holds the NFL single-season touchdown reception record (23 in 2007), the NFL single-season touchdown reception record for a rookie (17 in 1998), and is second on the NFL all-time regular season touchdown reception list at one hundred and fifty-six. He’s also known for securing contested catches and the word “Mossed” is now used in football.
Here are his NFL stats.
NFL career statistics
Year Team Games Receiving Rushing Returning Passing Fumbles
GP GS Rec Yards Avg Lng TD Att Yds Avg Lng TD Ret Yds Avg Lng TD Cmp Att Pct Yds TD Int Rtg Fum Lost
1998 MIN 16 11 69 1,313 19.0 61T 17 1 4 4.0 4 0 1 0 0.0 0 0 — — — — — — — 2 1
1999 MIN 16 16 80 1,413 17.7 67T 11 4 43 10.8 15 0 17 162 9.5 64T 1 1 1 100.0 27 1 0 158.3 3 3
2000 MIN 16 16 77 1,437 18.7 78T 15 3 5 1.7 9 0 — — — — — — — — — — — — 2 0
2001 MIN 16 16 82 1,233 15.0 73T 10 3 38 12.7 18 0 — — — — — 1 1 100.0 29 0 0 118.8 0 0
2002 MIN 16 16 106 1,347 12.7 60 7 6 51 8.5 25 0 1 11 11.0 11 0 1 3 33.3 13 1 0 87.5 1 1
2003 MIN 16 16 111 1,632 14.7 72 17 6 18 3.0 11 0 1 22 22.0 22 0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 39.6 1 1
2004 MIN 13 13 49 767 15.7 82T 13 — — — — — — — — — — 1 2 50.0 37 0 1 56.2 1 1
2005 OAK 16 15 60 1,005 16.8 79 8 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 0
2006 OAK 13 13 42 553 13.2 51 3 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 0
2007 NE 16 16 98 1,493 15.2 65T 23 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 0
2008 NE 16 16 69 1,008 14.6 76T 11 2 0 0.0 2 0 — — — — — — — — — — — — 3 2
2009 NE 16 16 83 1,264 15.2 71T 13 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 2 1
2010 NE 4 3 9 139 15.4 35T 3 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 0
MIN 4 4 13 174 13.4 37T 2 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 0
TEN 8 4 6 80 13.3 26 0 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 0
2012 SF 16 2 28 434 15.5 55 3 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1 0
Career 218 193 982 15,292 15.6 82T 156 25 159 6.4 25 0 20 195 9.8 64T 1 4 8 50.0 106 2 1 95.8 16 10
NFL Records
Touchdown receptions in a season – 23 (2007)
Touchdown receptions by a rookie in a season – 17 (1998)
Most NFL seasons with 17 or more touchdown receptions – 3 (1998, 2003, 2007)
NFL seasons with 16 or more touchdown receptions – 3 (1998, 2003, 2007)
Most NFL seasons with 11 or more touchdown receptions – 8 – tied with Jerry Rice
NFL seasons with 10 or more touchdown receptions – 9 – tied with Jerry Rice
Most games in an NFL season with at least 2 touchdown receptions – 8 (2007)
One of two players to have 1,600+ receiving yards and 16+ receiving touchdowns in an NFL season (2003), the other being Calvin Johnson (2011)
Most yards receiving in an NFL Pro Bowl game – 212 (2000)
Touchdowns scored in the first 10 games with a new team – 16 (2007)
Most 1,200+ yard receiving NFL seasons to start a career – 6 (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)
Moss has averaged at least one receiving touchdown per game played in four different NFL seasons: 1998 (17 TDs in 16 games), 2003 (17 in 16), 2004 (13 in 13), and 2007 (23 in 16)[86]
At the end of the 2008 season, Moss averaged 12.3 receiving TDs per NFL season
4× 100+ yard games in his first four games with a new NFL team in 2007
A Prodigy
The youngest player in NFL history to record his 100th receiving touchdown (29 years and 235 days)
The youngest player in NFL history to record his 120th receiving touchdown (30 years, 313 days)
Most receiving yards before 30th birthday – 10,700
Most TD receptions before 30th birthday – 101
The youngest player in the NFL to reach 6,000 career receiving yards (25 years and 270 days; later broken by Mike Evans)
Fastest player in the NFL to reach 5,000 career receiving yards – 59 games (broke record of 61 games by Jerry Rice)
The youngest player in the NFL to reach 5,000 career receiving yards – 24 years 292 days
Highest career yards per catch average for any player with 900+ receptions – 15.6 yards per reception
The youngest player in the NFL to have 3 touchdown receptions in a game (21 years, 286 days; later broken by Rob Gronkowski)
Most offensive touchdowns in first two seasons: 28 (Tied with Rob Gronkowski).