Has a receiver ever won the Triple Crown?

In 2021, Cooper Kupp became the first triple crown winner for sixteen years.

How many receivers have won Triple Crown?

The triple crown in the NFL is awarded to wide receivers who lead the league in receiving yards, receptions and touchdowns all in the same year. Since 1990, this feat has only been achieved on four occasions. Jerry Rice, Sterling Sharpe, Steve Smith and Cooper Kupp are the only ones to have taken home the award.

Who was the last WR to get a Triple Crown?

Steve Smith Sr. Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith is the last person to win the receiving Triple Crown. In 2005, he led the NFL with 103 receptions, 1,563 reception yards and 12 touchdown catches.

How many people have won the Triple Crown in football?

Only three, however, have won the so-called "Triple Crown," three individual statistical championships in one year. All three Triple Crowns were achieved in a four-season period from 1943 to 1946.

What was the best season ever by a wide receiver?

Jerry Rice in San Francisco 49ers in 1994

Rice's run from 1993-95 was the best a wide receiver has ever had. In 1994, he broke the NFL record for most career touchdowns.

How many wrs won the triple crown?

Has a wide receiver ever gone 1st overall?

Fryar went No. 1, becoming the first wide receiver ever to be taken in that spot. Fryar was a member of the Patriots when the team advanced to Super Bowl XX, and was a five-time Pro Bowl pick (four of those five came with teams other than the Patriots).

Who has the most 75 yard receiving touchdowns?

Jerry Rice has the most career receiving touchdowns when gaining 75+ yards on receptions, with 197 touchdowns.

Who is the only undefeated Triple Crown winner?

Seattle Slew (1977)

Seattle Slew has been the only horse to win the Triple Crown while being undefeated. He started just three times as a two-year-old, winning all three times.

Has anyone won the Triple Crown and not the MVP?

Since 1920 when Major League Baseball began recording RBI as an official statistic, there have been nine players who've won the Triple Crown. Of those 11 total wins, Ted Williams (1947, 1942), Lou Gehrig (1934) and Chuck Klein (1933) did not win the MVP of their respective leagues in the same year.

Who threw ran and caught a touchdown?

The last player to do that was running back LaDanian Tomlinson for the then-San Diego Chargers in 2005. New England Patriots wideout David Patten and Chicago Bears Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton also completed the feat.

Who has the fastest Triple Crown time?

Secretariat (1973): 2:24

Legendary Triple Crown winner Secretariat owns the fastest-ever clockings in the Derby, Preakness and Belmont, and his Belmont victory ranks as one for the ages.

Who has the most pitching triple crowns?

Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax won three National League pitching Triple Crowns, two consecutively and all three within four seasons. Walter Johnson won three American League pitching Triple Crowns with the Washington Senators.

Is Cooper Kupp a Hall of Famer?

Cooper Kupp has not been inducted into the Hall of Fame.

How many players have thrown ran and caught a touchdown in a game?

It's been since 2005 since any player has touchdowns in all three ways in a single game, and only 11 players have done it in pro football history.

Did Babe Ruth ever win a Triple Crown?

Some of the greatest players of all time never won a Triple Crown, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio, and Barry Bonds, to name just a few. Rogers Hornsby and Ted Williams were the only two players to win two Triple Crowns.

Has anyone ever won 4 MVPs in a row?

Russell and James are the only players to have won the award four times in five seasons. Moses Malone, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson each won the award three times, while Bob Pettit, Karl Malone, Tim Duncan, Steve Nash, Stephen Curry, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokić have each won it twice.

Who is the only driver to win Triple Crown?

In the period of 1971–1989, Indy car racing contested their own Triple Crown. From 1971 to 1980 it consisted of the three 500-mile events on the calendar: the Indianapolis 500, Pocono 500, and California 500. Al Unser (1978) is the only driver to win all three in the same season.

Why was Secretariat so fast?

Secretariat was so fast because he had outstanding conformation, an unusually large heart, and exceptional stride length.

Has any horse beat secretariats record?

Secretariat didn't go undefeated in his career, but he did finish "in the money" in all but one of his 21 lifetime races. One of Secretariat's defeats was to a horse named Sham, another one of history's greatest race horses.

Why is the Triple Crown so hard to win?

The difficulty in horse racing's Triple Crown is that the races are at different lengths, at different tracks, requiring different combinations of talents (just like baseball's Triple Crown), with different sets of competitors. Fresh challengers who haven't run in the previous races pop up.

Who has the most 100 yard receiving game?

Jerry Rice holds the all-time NFL record with an incredible 76 100-yard receiving games, per Pro-Football-Reference.com's play index.

Who has the most 90 yard receiving games in a row?

Regarding the mark for 90 yard receiving games, the players with the most such performances in a single season are Antonio Brown (2014) and Michael Irvin (1995) who each had 13.