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Super Cooper

Amari Cooper piling up yards at record clip

Amari Cooper has come as advertised. He’s polished, he’s smooth, and he’s catching a ton of balls. He had an outstanding catch at San Diego, tracking and adjusting to a long bomb, then leaping to high-point it above a defender. (His 52-yard catch-and-run touchdown in that game wasn’t bad either).

And while we are just six games into his career, we can now see that he’s on pace to finish with one of the all-time best rookie seasons for a receiver.

Cooper right now is on pace to finish the season with 1,384 yards. That would be the 2nd-best all-time, behind only Bill Groman of the expansion Oilers in the first-year of the AFL. Which begs the question: Who was Bill Groman?

In the past 50 years, only three other wide receivers have made it past 1,200 yards in their first year – Anquan Boldin, Randy Moss and Odell Beckham Jr.

ROOKIES WITH 1,000 RECEIVING YARDS
YearPlayerNoYardsAvgTD
1960Bill Groman, Hou.721,47320.512
2015Amari Cooper, Oak. (proj.)881,38415.78
2003Anquan Boldin, Ariz.1011,37713.68
1998Randy Moss, Minn.691,31319.017
2014Odell Beckham Jr., NYG911,30514.312
1952Bill Howton, G.B.531,23123.213
2004Michael Clayton, T.B.801,19314.97
1996Terry Glenn, N.E.901,13212.66
1986Bill Brooks, Ind.651,13117.48
1954Harlon Hill, Chi.451,12425.012
1961Mike Ditka, Chi.561,07619.212
1986Ernest Givins, Hou.611,06217.43
2011A.J. Green, Cin.651,05716.37
2014Mike Evans, T.B.681,05115.512
2013Keenan Allen, S.D.711,04614.78
1995Joey Galloway, Sea.671,03915.57
2006Marques Colston, N.O.701,03814.88
1981Cris Collinsworth, Cin.671,00915.18
2014Kelvin Benjamin, Car.731,00813.89
1965Bob Hayes, Dall.461,00321.812
1978John Jefferson, S.D.561,00117.913

—Ian Allan

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