Terrell Owens Is Having a Season

Perhaps my favorite professional football player of all-time, Terrell Owens, is putting together what could be a career year at the age of 36. (He'll be 37 next month.) Many wrote off TO following his tough season in Buffalo (55 rec., 829 yards, 5 TDs). Well look who's back.

Owens already has as many catches in 8 games this season as he did in 16 games a year ago, and more touchdowns, 7 to 5. Last year it was Trent Edwards, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Brian Brohm, but mainly it was people saying TO = Too Old. Hold the phone. Owens is back where he belongs, as an elite receiver in the NFL.

Look at the numbers. 8 games played.

Receptions: 55 (3rd in NFL)
Receiving Yards: 770 (3rd in NFL)
Receiving Touchdowns: 7 (T-4th in NFL)

If he keeps the same pace (a big "if" I get it) he would set career highs for both catches and yards, pretty incredible.

Also, who would have thought that of the two guys closest to Jerry Rice's record for TD receptions (197), Randy Moss (153) and Terrell Owens (151), that it would be TO, despite being 3 years older would have a better chance (if there really is any chance) of breaking one of Rice's insane records.

The way Moss was playing with the Patriots coupled with Owens' year in Buffalo it looked as though Moss would leave TO in the dust, but wait up just a minute. Owens joined Moss and Rice this past Monday as the only 3 players in league history to catch at least 150 TDs. Check out how he celebrated that accomplishment.



-Keefe