Randy Moss
Oakland Raiders Wide Reciever
Randy Moss is an eccentric reciever who defies the odds every time he leaps into the air. Also ADMIN's favorite player ever, Randy paired with the great Cris Carter and Jake Reed to star in Minnesota since his rookie season. Randy holds several NFL records and will add numerous more before he hangs up his cleats and does a favor to all of the NFL's defensive players.
Randy's current records include:
- Rookie record 17 TD catches
- Moss caught 98 TD passes in 8 seasons, 8th most in NFL history. He trails Jerry Rice, Terrell Owens, Marvin Harrison, Cris Carter, Tim Brown, Steve Largent, and Don Hutson, all of whom have played more seasons than Moss.
- Has caught 13 or more TDs in a season 4 times. He trails only Terrell Owens and Jerry Rice in such seasons.
- Is the only player next to Jerry Rice to catch 17 or more TDs in a season twice (Moss accomplished the feat in 1998 and 2003).
- Moss has had 3 seasons where he averaged at least one receiving TD a game. 1998 (17 TDs in 16 games), 2003 (17 TDs in 16 games), and 2004 (13 TDs in 13 games). It is an NFL record for players.
- He had back to back 100 catch seasons, first in 2002 and then in 2003. He joined Jerry Rice, Marvin Harrison, Cris Carter, Herman Moore, and Rod Smith as the only receivers to do so.
- At the end of the 2005 season, Moss was averaging approximately 12.25 receiving TDs per season, which is an NFL record.
- Holds the record for most 1,000 yard seasons in his first seasons of the league. In his first 6 seasons in the NFL, he had 1,000+ yards in each seasons, setting an NFL record.
- Moss is the only player in NFL history to average 100 yards receiving and a touchdown a game through a 16 NFL game season.
Randy Moss was the 21st pick in the 1998 NFL draft after an outstanding college campaign that made Marshall a national force. Moss was redshirted at Florida State University after being spurned by Notre Dame due to an incident (fight) which Moss was part of in his hometown. Notre Dame rescinded the scholarship it had offered him and he transferred to the Seminoles, where it was reported he ran a 4.25 40 yard dash.
According to Lou Holtz, Moss was the greatest high school athlete he had ever seen because "he was just a bigger Deion Sanders."
Ultimately, Moss transferred to Marshall University, about an hour's drive from his home. Because Marshall was then a Division I-AA school, NCAA rules allowed him to transfer there without losing any further eligibility. In 1996, he set the NCAA Division I-AA records for most games with a touchdown catch in a season (14), most consecutive games with a touchdown catch (13), most touchdown passes caught by a freshman in a season (29), and most receiving yards gained by a freshman in a season (1709 on 78 catches). Those records still stand. Moss was also the leading kickoff returner in Division I-AA on the season, with 484 total yards and a 34.6 yard average. Marshall went undefeated and won the Division I-AA title in its last season before moving to Division I-A. Moss paired with Pro QB Chad Pennington and was a finalist for the Heisman trophy, (finishing fourth in the balloting, behind Ryan Leaf, Peyton Manning, and Charles Woodson, who won the award).
On February 23, 2005, Randy's ex-agent, Dante DiTrapano, reported that Moss was going to be traded to the Oakland Raiders from the Minnesota Vikings for linebacker Napoleon Harris, the 7th overall pick and a 7th round pick. The trade was consumated in early March and Minnesota fans are still outraged today. (Trust ME!)
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