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     Nayak Yavvanam Kaatesina Bewarse Username: Nayak Post Number: 5515 Registered: 04-2009 Posted From: 12.131.245.18 Rating: N/A |
Here are seven more phenomenal facts about Jones: 1. Jones had a 79-yard catch on Monday night. That would be a career-long for most wide receivers, but it's not even in the top three for Jones. He had an 80-yard grab as a rookie in 2011 (and a 75-yarder for good measure), an 80-yard catch in 2012, an 81-yard catch in 2013 despite playing in only five games that season, and then the 79-yarder on Monday. Consider for a moment that future Hall of Famer Reggie Wayne's career-long is 71 yards over 14 seasons and Jones has five longer than that in four. 2. He has more career catches of 79-plus yards as Wayne, Andre Johnson, Steve Largent, Anquan Boldin, Larry Fitzgeralrd, Chad Johnson, Brandon Marshall, Santana Moss, Muhsin Muhammad, Keyshawn Johnson, Jimmy Smith, Plaxico Burress, and Keenan McCardell combined. 3. Jones has 4,165 career yards with three games left to go in his fourth season. That's the 13th-highest total for any player through four years ever, just 26 yards behind Calvin Johnson. With 300 yards over his final three games, he'd be seventh on that list, behind only Randy Moss, Torry Holt, Jerry Rice, AJ Green (who was picked two spots ahead of him in 2011), Boldin, and Fitzgerald. But there's a catch, no pun intended … 4. If he finishes out the season as expected, Jones will have played in 50 out of a possible 64 career games. He's actually averaging 88.6 yards per game, which is more than what Rice averaged (81.4 Y/G) through his first four years, more than Moss (84.3 Y/G), Green (83.2 Y/G), and Holt (79.5 Y/G). On a per-game basis, an argument could be made that Jones is off to the best start for a wide receiver in NFL history. 5. Since entering the league, Jones has the 13th-most receiving yards in the NFL. But again, he has missed 14 games with injury, so if he were healthy he'd be much higher on the list. His per-game average is higher than anyone on this side of Megatron. (Johnson has over 1,200 more yards than any other player since 2011, and he has missed five possible games.) 6. Jones has 18 career games of 100-plus yards, tied with Victor Cruz for the sixth-most since 2011. That means he's hitting the century mark 38-percent of the time. Demaryius Thomas has hit 100 yards in 39 percent of his games over the last four years, and that's mostly playing with Peyton Manning. Jordy Nelson has done it just 31 percent of the time over the last four years, mostly with Aaron Rodgers. While Matt Ryan is a good quarterback, he's not near that level. 7. The Falcons drafted Jones for his ability to spread the field, and that's exactly what he's done. Jones' 34 "deep targets" (any target that goes 20 or more yards downfield in the air) is the most in the NFL this season. He has caught just 16 of those, but only 18 were deemed "catchable" by Pro Football Focus. Jones needs to work on cutting down the drops (he has two on deep passes, eight overall), but only Mike Evans has caught more deep passes this season and Jones is what makes the Atlanta offense work by his ability to create space in the open field and draw defenders away from the middle of the field. That's why the Falcons are 26-21 when he plays, 6-8 when he doesn't. Warrior |