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with two games to go and 1,100+ yards and 11 touchdowns already in the books, miles austin is putting together one of the best receiving seasons this franchise has ever seen. he's within striking distance of a "holy trinity" of stats that even bona fide greats didn't reach.
only 5 times in cowboys history has a receiver amassed 1,300 yards in a single season: michael irvin did it 4 times, terrell owens once.
even if he only manages less than a hundred yards over the next two weeks, finishing with 1,200 yards for the season, austin will have accomplished something that has been done just twice in dallas, once by irvin and once by bullet bob hayes.
as for scoring touchdowns, austin has already put himself in rare company: only 6 times in team history has a receiver scored more than 10 times in a single season. hayes and lance rentzel both posted 12-score seasons, hayes and owens both nabbed 13 TDs, frank clarke scored 14 times in 1962, and owens holds the team record with 15.
also within reach is the 80-catch mark, which has only been reached 10 times in team history. (jason witten, who is already past that milestone this year, leads all cowboys receivers with 4 of those 80-catch seasons. irvin has 3, owens had 2, and rocket ismail had 1.)
if austin DOES reach all 3 of those milestones -- 80+ catches, 1,300+ yards, and 12+ touchdowns -- he would be only the second cowboys player ever to do so, rivaling owens' 2007 season as arguably the most statistically significant in team history.
(thank you, pro-football-reference.com!)
only 5 times in cowboys history has a receiver amassed 1,300 yards in a single season: michael irvin did it 4 times, terrell owens once.
even if he only manages less than a hundred yards over the next two weeks, finishing with 1,200 yards for the season, austin will have accomplished something that has been done just twice in dallas, once by irvin and once by bullet bob hayes.
as for scoring touchdowns, austin has already put himself in rare company: only 6 times in team history has a receiver scored more than 10 times in a single season. hayes and lance rentzel both posted 12-score seasons, hayes and owens both nabbed 13 TDs, frank clarke scored 14 times in 1962, and owens holds the team record with 15.
also within reach is the 80-catch mark, which has only been reached 10 times in team history. (jason witten, who is already past that milestone this year, leads all cowboys receivers with 4 of those 80-catch seasons. irvin has 3, owens had 2, and rocket ismail had 1.)
if austin DOES reach all 3 of those milestones -- 80+ catches, 1,300+ yards, and 12+ touchdowns -- he would be only the second cowboys player ever to do so, rivaling owens' 2007 season as arguably the most statistically significant in team history.
(thank you, pro-football-reference.com!)
