Learn how your comment data is processed. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Randy had his name and I had mine.. I have had fun throughout my years and, you know, predominantly in the offseason." [67], "Im still in awe that Im a part of this organization,"[68] Moss said, clearly thrilled to join a team that could contend for the Super Bowl and to work with Coach Belichick. Copyright 2023 Stats Crew, Stats Crew - The Home of Sports Statistics. In doing so, he became the youngest and fastest player to ever catch over 3,000 yards and 45 touchdowns, earning him his 3rd consecutive trip to the Pro Bowl, and 2nd selection to the All Pro team. In the first week of training camp, during an 11-on-11 passing drill, Moss suffered a hamstring injury to his left leg. Since the retirement of Terrell Owens at the end of 2010, he had been the NFL's active leader in receiving yards. Moss confident he'd catch 30 TDs with Mahomes in his prime. In 1998, Moss helped the Vikings to become the number 1 rated offense ever at the time, setting the single-season record for scoring (later surpassed by the 2007 New England Patriots, a team that also featured Moss) with 556 points. Parade magazine named him to their annual All-American high school football team in 1995[12] and in 2009 named him one of the 50 greatest high school football players of all time. [54], Just prior to the start of training camp in July, Vikings owner Red McCombs signed Moss to an 8-year, $75 million contract extension. The Associated Press contributed to this report. However, he will no longer contribute to the Monday night pregame broadcast. I remember when he wouldnt even talk to the local media when he was player in Minnesota. Randy was also on the school's debate team. In the 2001 season, the Vikings record was 41 when Moss had 40% of the passes thrown his direction, and 110 in other games.[55]. Randy Moss. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Rice posted his response on Instagram, with a list of his career stats and Moss . Although the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, and Green Bay Packers were rumored to have interest in Moss,[72] he decided to return to the Patriots, signing a three-year, $27 million deal on March 3, 2008. When I was a freshman at FSU in 1995, I met a red-shirt freshman football player named Peter Warrick. Warrick was also the subject of my first (of many) sports website in 1998, when I realized I had a future career on the internet. Coach Tice called it the Randy Ratio. [26] Although Moss had not raced competitively for four years, his time was one of the best in the country that year. In 2007, Moss was traded to the New England Patriots, where he set the single-season record for touchdown receptions and helped lead the Patriots to a record breaking 160 regular season. Coach Bobby Bowden revoked his scholarship and Moss was dismissed from Florida State University for the failed drug test. Two days after the Patriots' game against Miami, Moss was traded to the Minnesota Vikings, in exchange for the Vikings' third-round selection (later used to select quarterback Ryan Mallett) in the 2011 NFL Draft. The beautiful teenager unlike her father has chosen a different . On September 24, 2002, in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, Moss was driving and was preparing to make an illegal turn. After sitting out the 2011 season, Moss signed a one-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers in 2012 before retiring following the season. However, he sustained a hamstring injury to his right leg against New Orleans in Week 6 that hampered him for the next five weeks. [citation needed] The decision proved correct. "He was quarterback and ran a bootleg. Fantasy Hockey. Total Tackles 0 Tackles Per Game 0.0 Games Played 1 Defense Tackles We included some highlights for your enjoyment: 15: The number of games with 100 or more receiving yards Moss had in two seasons with Marshall. His first action in a Patriots uniform came against the New York Jets in Week 1. He's the reason why LeBron James wore #9 in high school. Statistics. After Alex Smith suffered a concussion against the St. Louis Rams in week 10, Colin Kaepernick took over as the team's quarterback, and Moss had at least two receptions in each of the remaining five games of the regular season. The Patriots had acquired the draft pick the previous day from the San Francisco 49ers, and the Raiders selected John Bowie. This was the only year he competed on the school's track team, but he would later join the Marshall track team and lower his 200 m time to 21.15 seconds. Randy Moss Salary. He had 982 catches for 15,292 yards and scored 157 touchdowns. Our basketball teams used a ferocious 1-3-1 press. However, he will no longer contribute to the Monday night pregame broadcast. "[36] The team most often cited for passing on Moss is the Dallas Cowboys. On Monday, Randy Gene Moss announced his retirement from the NFL in a one-sentence statement released by his agent. He also talked about the joy of playing high school basketball withJason White Chocolate Williams, who was a red-shirt basketball player at Marshall before transferring to FSU-rival University of Florida. Thank God well no longer have to listen to Randy on Monday nights. See All Sports Games. [62], There were rumors leading up to the 2007 NFL Draft that the Raiders were eager to part ways with Randy Moss through a trade. In the final year of his professional career, he earned $2.5 million while playing for the San Francisco 49ers in the 2012 campaign. Register; Football; Names; M; Randy Moss Randy Gene Moss. Moss has little contact with his father. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Culpepper had been the team's first-round draft pick in 1999; with a pick they received from the Redskins for quarterback Brad Johnson. [44] Moss originally wore #18 in training camp (a number he would eventually wear for Oakland) but switched to the more conventional #84 before the regular season began. Eyewitness accounts of the event differ at this point, but Moss did not comply with the officer's order, and she was bumped by his vehicle and fell to the ground. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. [53], In the offseason, Moss and his agent Dant DiTrapano began negotiating a new contract with the Minnesota Vikings. Senali Moss is famed as the daughter of legendary NFL wide receiver, Randy Moss. MP Stats for iPad Stat keeping for basketball teams. Check out these 10 amazing stats. Follow your favorite high school teams and players, Explore and purchase photos of your local teams, See top plays & highlights of the best high school sports. [63], One of the conditions of the trade was that Randy Moss would have to restructure his contract for salary cap reasons. [1][10] He attended DuPont High School, one of two schools that later consolidated into Riverside High School, where he excelled in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Getting paid big bucks to be a media guy. The score was not enough for the heavily favored Patriots to end their only undefeated season with a Super Bowl win. Do you have a sports website? [66] As a precaution, the injury prevented Moss from participating in any preseason games and he missed much of the rest of camp. Opposing teams would routinely double cover Moss with techniques such as having a cornerback attempt to jam him at the line of scrimmage, having a corner defend underneath with a safety defending against the deep ball, having a zone defense roll to Moss's side of the field, and assigning "spies" to follow Moss everywhere he went. The term "mossed", referring to this ability, has since become a common term in football lexicon.[8]. Moss has five children: Lexi Adkins, Sydney, Senali, Thaddeus, and Montigo. Which transfers have made the biggest impact on the 2022-23 women's college basketball season? Games Played 15 Solo Tackles 9 Total Tackles 15 Tackles Per Game 1.0 Basketball Stats - NBA - ABA - WNBA/Women's - G-League/D-League - Minor League Basketball - Search It was Peters 6-4 roommate that had everyone going crazy. We wanted to kill him. Lost amidst the retirement shock waves was the fact that exactly 15 weeks earlier, Jason Chandler Williams announced his official retirement from the NBA. Transactions . 1:28; Moss confident he'd catch 30 TDs with Mahomes in his prime. He streaked down the right sideline and caught an 80-yard touchdown pass from Pennington to tie the score at 77. Ultimately, Moss decided to stay put. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. [110] While the criminal charges were thus disposed of, the civil lawsuit filed by the traffic control officer brought a substantial penalty fine[111] "in the low to mid six figures". The entire operation is so that we watch! Moss caught the ball on the right side of the field at his own 8-yard line, ran past 3 defenders in the middle of the field at the 15-yard line, hurdled two defenders coming from both sides of the left hash marks at the 25-yard line, then raced past the last defender at the 50-yard line before finally seeing daylight down the left sideline. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Moss's fortunes took a better turn on the football field during the 2003 regular season, where he became the second wide receiver in NFL history (behind Jerry Rice in 1995) to play more than 12 games (he played 16) while averaging over 100 yards and one touchdown per contest. There was a stipulation that he would have to pay the difference in addition to any other fine if he had another run-in with the league.[52]. Australian Football Stats - Australian Football Search Randy Moss. On the same play, Tom Brady broke Peyton Manning's single-season record set in 2004 with his 50th touchdown pass. Randy's Stats National Avg Teams School Timeline Football Upload Video Randy Moss' Football Stats Career Var 10-11 Var 09-10 Var 08-09 Var 07-08 Career Stats Randy has played on 4 football teams covered by MaxPreps. One was a prolific wide receiver who went on to become one of the greatest in NFL history. [21] Moss was initially charged with a felony for kicking the student, but it was later reduced to a misdemeanor. [107] In 2019, Moss was named to the National Football League 100th Anniversary All-Time Team.[108]. He obviously made the right decision of choosing catching pigskins on the gridiron over catching alley-oops on a hardwood but I would have love to seen how good of a basketball player the two-time West Virginia Basketball Player Of The Year could have become. Marshall In response, Moss said "That was really me talking in the past tense of way back in the beginning of my career and my childhood especially in high school and college."[113]. 24/7 Sports News Network. Randy has played on 1 baseball team covered by MaxPreps. Draft: Minnesota Vikings in the 1st round (21st overall) of the 1998 NFL Draft. He served 3 days in jail starting that night and would be required to serve the remaining 27 days within the following 18 months, after he completed his freshman year in college. College Football at Sports-Reference.com Blog and Articles. See our list of forfeits and vacated games for more details. Sydney Moss, the daughter of former NFL receiving great Randy Moss, set the NCAA Division III record for single-game scoring with 63 points for Thomas More College on Friday night in a semifinal win in the Presidents' Athletic Conference tournament. Moss finished the game with 4 catches for 70 yards and two touchdowns in the 3117 win. Opportunity. Billick goes on to discuss his time coaching Randy Moss and Chris Carter in Minnesota and talks about how . [89] Moss played eight games with the Titans, starting four. "[116] On March 3, 2008, Washington filed papers with the Broward County Circuit Court clerk's office requesting that the restraining order be dissolved. They have an articulate, entertaining, HOF receiver and bury him in favor of the likes of Booger and Riddick. The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more. He went on to record five receptions for 127 yards and a touchdown in the Vikings 2710 NFC wildcard playoff win over the Dallas Cowboys. Randy Moss' Thanksgiving 1998 stats explored. If you know me personally then you have probably heard this story a million times but I love telling it. In 1996, he set the NCAA Division I-AA records for the most games with a touchdown catch in a season (14), most consecutive games with a touchdown catch (13), most touchdown passes caught in a season (28 tying Jerry Rice's 1984 record), and most receiving yards gained by a freshman in a season (1,709 on 78 catches), a record which still stands. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most talented wide receivers of all time,[2][3][4][5][6][7] he holds the NFL single-season touchdown reception record (23 in 2007), as well as the NFL single-season touchdown reception record for a rookie (17 in 1998). In the 1990s, the town's high school -- DuPont -- housed two future pro athletes on the basketball team. Moss, a 5-foot-11 sophomore guard, is a former Kentucky prep basketball star, and averaged 22.6 points and 10.8 rebounds per game in her junior year at Boone County High School. At the Southern Conference indoor track championships, Moss ran the 200 meters in 21.15 seconds, missing the conference record by only .02 seconds. Randy Moss actually found Jason Williams long before high school. He returned to the lineup in Week 12 with a touchdown catch against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Vikings would make it to the NFC Championship game, only to be blown out 410 by the New York Giants. Moss did not attend the 1998 NFL Combine. Though the Vikings would win the game, they would lose in the next round of the playoffs to the Philadelphia Eagles, and Moss would be traded at the end of the season. Franchise Games. "[96] He has donated clothing and food to needy families, given away free backpacks to Boston area school-children, and hosted autograph signings. Game Changer! Via Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, Moss will still appear on Sunday NFL Countdown. [31] Nate Ruffin, who is a surviving member of the 1970 Football Team, later met with Randy Moss. Register now! [115] He finished the season with 83 receptions for 1,264 yards and an NFL-high 13 touchdowns. 1? Bills survive to beat Dolphins, advance to divisional round, Lamar Jackson: My knee remains inflamed and unstable, Sammy Watkins hopes Lamar Jackson decides to play, Report: Lamar Jackson not looking good for Sunday, NFL selects Atlanta for potential Bills-Chiefs AFC Championship. He has also bussed children to amusement parks, NBA games, and even NFL games in which he has played. "[77] He compared Moss's ability to see the field and anticipate plays to that of Tom Brady, and to Lawrence Taylor, who Belichick coached with the New York Giants. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Moss should have been in the broadcast booth for all these years instead of the parade of bozos that ESPN selected. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. [22], Notre Dame subsequently denied his enrollment application, but this did not stop another high-profile college football program from giving him a chance. He was quarterback and ran a bootleg. [67][68] Moss had two years remaining on his current deal and was scheduled to earn $9.75 million in 2007 and $11.25 million in 2008. Moss was selected to play in 6 Pro Bowls. In training camp, Moss worked specifically on 12 new routes that he had rarely run in his first 4 NFL seasons, such as crossing patterns over the middle of the field and hook routes. One of Moss's memorable highlights that year was when he lateraled to Moe Williams for a last-second touchdown during a home game against Denver. He quickly became a star and took the Vikings to the brink of the Super Bowl. Two weeks after that was his fourth and final 200+ yard game in college, recording 13 catches for 205 yards and a Marshall single-game record of 5 touchdown receptions against Ball State.[29]. LiAngelo Ball Wins Co-MVP Of JBA All-Star Game, Remembering When the Spurs drafted David Robinson (& waited 2 years for him to play), Ballislife EAST COAST SQUAD vs FRIGA FAM Jan. 7th 8PM EST/5 PM PST. Moss pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor traffic violation and was ordered to pay a $1,200 fine and perform 40 hours of community service. Randy Moss said "I didn't really care much about the Randy Ratio when it was brought up. All-time, Moss ranks second in career touchdown receptions as well as fourth in career receiving yards. They just have a sixth, seventh sense", Belichick said. pic.twitter.com/3KqcotUGMS, Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) April 1, 2018, 2005-2023 Ballislife.com PO Box 15355. Baseball Stats - AL - NL - AAGPBL - Minor League Baseball - Search He had been selected largely due to his extremely strong arm, which the team believed was perfectly suited for Moss's deep routes. [24], In 1996, while serving his 30-day jail sentence in a work-release program from 1995, Moss tested positive for marijuana, thus violating his probation, and was dismissed from Florida State. [14], In addition to playing football at DuPont, Moss was twice named West Virginia Player of the Year in basketball (in 1994 when he was co-player of the year and in 1995), where he was a teammate of future NBA player Jason Williams. February 23, 2022. He was scheduled to finish the remainder of his 30-day sentence for misdemeanor battery while in high school. In the week leading up to the Patriots' 2010 season opener against the Cincinnati Bengals, Moss, who was entering the final year of his contract told CBS Sports that he "did not feel wanted" in New England absent a contract extension offer. On March 2, 2005, Moss was traded to the Oakland Raiders for linebacker Napoleon Harris and the Raiders' first (7th overall, which Minnesota parlayed into wide receiver Troy Williamson) and seventh-round picks in the NFL draft. Moss finished the season with a career-high 1,437 yards and league-leading 15 touchdown catches. However, in Super Bowl XLII, he scored the go-ahead touchdown with 2:42 left in the fourth quarter on a six-yard pass from Tom Brady. [103], Upon his release from the 49ers, Moss was hired as an analyst for Fox Sports 1's Fox Football Daily show. Fun to see guys like Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube and even Ice T become corporate spokesmen and Moss and Abib Talib get TV deals. ", On March 12, 2012, Moss signed a one-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers for undisclosed financial terms after a workout with the team's head coach Jim Harbaugh. The other was a flashy passer and dazzling point guard who won an NBA championship. Moss returned to his home state of West Virginia and became a star at Marshall University. [83] The Patriots also sent a 2012 seventh-round selection to the Vikings as part of the trade.[84]. Moss has averaged at least one receiving touchdown per game played in four different seasons: At the end of the 2008 season, Moss averaged 12.3 receiving TDs per season, 4 100+ yard games in his first four games with a new team in 2007, Youngest player in NFL history to record his 100th receiving touchdown (29 years and 235 days), Youngest player in NFL history to record his 120th receiving touchdown (30 years, 313 days), Most TD receptions before 30th birthday 101, Youngest player to reach 6,000 career receiving yards (25 years and 270 days; later broken by, Fastest player to reach 5,000 career receiving yards 59 games (broke record of 61 games by Jerry Rice), Youngest player 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, Youngest player to have 3 touchdown receptions in a game (21 years, 286 days; later broken by, Most offensive touchdowns in first two seasons: 28 (Tied with Rob Gronkowski), Caught his 100th touchdown pass in 2006 against San Francisco, the seventh player to do so, Most receiving touchdowns in a single-season for the, Holds the record for most touchdowns in Minnesota Vikings playoff history with 9, 10 1,000+ yard receiving seasons 2nd all-time, 64 career 100-yard games 2nd all-time; most recent November 15, 2009, 73.6 receiving yards per game 7th all-time, Has completed 4 of 8 passes for 106 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 1 interception, giving him a 95.8 passer rating, Only player to catch 90+ touchdown passes, return a punt for a touchdown, and throw 2 touchdown passes, Has played on two of the five highest-scoring teams (for a single season) in NFL history: 2007 Patriots (589 points) and the 1998 Vikings (556 points); both were the highest-scoring teams in NFL history thitherto, Had a career-high 12 receptions for 204 yards against the Chicago Bears, at Soldier Field, on November 14, 1999, in a 2724 overtime win, Holds the Vikings record for most 100-yard receiving games with 41, Has two touchdowns or more in 39 different games (including 3 in the postseason); most recent September 26, 2010, Has two touchdown receptions or more in 37 different games (2nd all-time), Has three touchdown receptions or more in 9 different games (2nd all-time): at Dallas (November 26, 1998), a 4636 victory; vs. Chicago (December 6, 1998), a 4822 victory; at Detroit (October 1, 2000), a 3124 victory; vs. New York Giants (November 19, 2001) a 2816 victory; vs. San Francisco (September 28, 2003), a 357 victory; at Buffalo (November 18, 2007), a 5610 victory; at Miami (November 23, 2008), a 4828 victory; vs. Tennessee (October 18, 2009), a 590 victory; vs. Jacksonville (December 27, 2009), a 357 victory, Caught a career-high four touchdowns at Buffalo (all in the first half) November 18, 2007, Career statistics and player information from, This page was last edited on 9 January 2023, at 19:59.
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