Another week, another record for Brock Bowers. On a 14-yard reception in the first half of the Las Vegas Raiders' Week 17 game vs. the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, the tight end broke the NFL's all-time record for most receiving yards by a rookie tight end.
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The Raiders tight end's seven receptions for 77 yards gives him a total of 108 receptions for 1,144 yards in 16 games this season, surpassing the mark for a rookie that Mike Ditka
You'd be hard-pressed to find a guy in NFL history tougher than Mike Ditka, but Brock Bowers is making his case. On Sunday, Bowers claimed Ditka's 63-year-old NFL record for receiving yardage by a rookie tight end.
In the third quarter, Bowers broke the NFL record for receptions in a rookie season, surpassing the mark of 105 catches set by Los Angeles Rams receiver Puka Nacua last season. Later in the quarter, he matched Darren Waller’s franchise record for most receptions in a season with his 107th catch.
Mike Ditka’s rookie tight end receiving yards record stood for 63 years. Today Raiders TE Brock Bowers broke it.
Sam LaPorta, the then-rookie TE for the Detroit Lions rounds out the top five of the TEs with the most receiving yards in a season. LaPorta stands fifth on this list after he managed 889 yards during his rookie year. After being drafted in the second round of the draft LaPorta managed an average of 10.3 while adding 52.3 yards per game (17 games).
Brock Bowers set a new rookie receiving yards record for tight ends on Sunday, surpassing Mike Ditka’s mark of 1,076 set in 1961, during the Las Vegas Raiders’ matchup with the New Orleans Saints.
Las Vegas Raiders rookie TE Brock Bowers broke multiple records in a 25-10 win over the New Orleans Saints on Sunday night. He surpassed Mike Ditka's rookie receiving record of 1,076 yards set in 1961.
Raiders rookie tight end Brock Bowers didn't set any statistical goals for his rookie season, he said, because he had “no clue what to expect, coming from college to the NFL.”
The rookie year Mike Ditka enjoyed was like no other for an NFL rookie tight end for 63 years. Now, the rookie record set by Ditka for tight end receiving yards that year has fallen to Las Vegas tight end Brock Bowers, although in fairness to Da Coach it ...