You already know that Randy Moss and Terrell Owens, the high-profile, pass-catching combatants in Sunday's New England-Dallas megagame, are talented players.

 

You might not know that they're two of the three most prolific scoring machines in the history of the NFL, and certainly the most productive of the modern era.

 

Updating a previous list, we calculated the average TDs per game of every receiver in NFL history with at least 60 TD catches.

 

Naturally, Don Hutson, the most dominant receiver ever (and a member of the Cold, Hard Football Facts All-Time 11), chimes in at No. 1, and by a wide margin. He averaged better than 0.8 TDs per game over the course of his 116-game career.

 

But right behind him are Moss at No. 2 and Owens at No. 3. Another active phenom rounds out the Top 4, Indy's Marvin Harrison.

 

Barring some sort of miracle year by Moss, who already has 7 TD receptions this year, Hutston's place atop the leaderboard is pretty secure. But that doesn't change the fact that no receivers over the last 62 years (Hutson retired in 1945) have been better at scoring TDs than Moss, Owens and Harrison.

 

	Player	TDs	Games	TDs per game
1	Don Hutson	99	116	0.853
2	Randy Moss	108	143	0.755
3	Terrell Owens	117	163	0.718
4	Marvin Harrison	123	174	0.707
5	Art Powell	81	117	0.692
6	Jerry Rice	197	303	0.650
7	Lance Alworth	85	136	0.625
8	Sterling Sharpe	65	112	0.580
9	Cris Carter	130	234	0.556
10	Tommy McDonald	84	152	0.553
11	Gary Collins	70	127	0.551
12	Sonny Randle	65	120	0.542
13	Paul Warfield	85	157	0.541
14	Bullet Bob Hayes	71	132	0.538
15	Mark Clayton	84	158	0.532
16	Torry Holt	67	131	0.511
17	Carl Pickens	63	125	0.504
18	Steve Largent	100	200	0.500
19	Charlie Taylor	79	165	0.479
20	Don Maynard	88	186	0.473
21	Wesley Walker	71	154	0.461
22	Andre Rison	84	184	0.457
23	Jimmy Orr	66	149	0.443
24	Raymond Berry	68	154	0.442
25	Joey Galloway	73	166	0.440
26	Bobby Mitchell	65	148	0.439
27	Carmichael	79	182	0.434
28	Isaac Bruce	80	187	0.428
29	Herman Moore	62	149	0.416
30	Michael Irvin	65	159	0.409

Minimum, 60 TD receptions

 

 

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