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3 -- Super Bowl MVP awards won by Joe Montana, who also won the NFL regular-season MVP award twice and led San Francisco to four Super Bowl championships. |
Joe Montana threw 55 of his 273 career regular-season touchdown passes to Jerry Rice.
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4 -- 200-yard games in Jim Brown's career, second only to O.J. Simpson's six. Barry Sanders and Earl Campbell also had four.
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5.22 -- Brown's yards per carry, the highest in NFL history. Brown rushed for 12,312 yards in his nine-year career.
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6 -- Times Sammy Baugh led the league in passing yards, an NFL record. "Slingin' Sammy" was the league's top quarterback in 1937, '40, '43, '45, '47 and '49.
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7 -- Seasons in which Lawrence Taylor had 10 or more sacks. Taylor finished his 13-year career with 132.5
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8 -- Pro Bowl appearances by Dick Butkus in his nine seasons. |
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8.63 -- Otto Graham's average yards per pass attempt, the best in NFL history. The Browns QB great attempted only 1,565 passes, but threw for 13,499 yards. |
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9 -- Times Don Hutson led the NFL in touchdown receptions. The Packers great led the league in five consecutive years from 1940-44. He also led in receptions eight times and receiving yards seven times. |
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17 -- Charter members of the NFL Hall of Fame. Both Baugh and Hutson were enshrined in the inaugural class of 1963. |
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20.2 -- Percent of Hutson's catches that went for touchdowns. He had 488 catches and 99 touchdowns. By comparison, fellow Hall of Famer Steve Largent had 818 catches and 100 touchdowns. |
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20.5 -- Sacks Taylor had in 1986, when he became the first defensive player to win the NFL MVP since Vikings DE Alan Page in 1971. |
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25 -- Fumbles Butkus recovered in his career, which ranks third on the all-time list behind Jim Marshall (29) and Rickey Jackson (28). Butkus also had 22 career interceptions. |
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31 -- Come-from-behind wins in Montana's career. Montana led the 49ers back from fourth-quarter deficits 26 times and the Chiefs five times. |
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45.1 -- Baugh's career punting average, the highest of any player with at least 250 punts. Baugh is the only man in NFL history to average more than 50 yards a punt in a season - averaging 51.4 per kick in 1980.
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47 -- Consecutive games in which Johnny Unitas threw at least one touchdown pass, an NFL record |
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92.3 -- Montana's career quarterback rating, second only to his successor in San Francisco -- Steve Young. |
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133 -- Tackles Taylor made in his rookie season of 1981. Taylor also would have had 9.5 sacks, but sacks did not become an official statistic until 1982. |
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220 -- Combined touchdowns in Graham's career -- 174 passing and 46 rushing. |
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290 -- Touchdown passes in Unitas' career. Only Dan Marino (408), Fran Tarkenton (342) and John Elway (300) have thrown more.
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