Rice versus Harrison
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by user Behbigben15
The Indianapolis Colts receiver, Marvin Harrison, is entering his 12th NFL season this year. While ex-49ers, Raiders, and Seahawks receiver Jerry Rice had a 21 year career. These two receivers are both future hall of famers, and have alot more in common.
Marvin Harrison has played for the colts his entire career, his rookie season was in 1996, and in his 11 seasons in the NFL, only three of those years he did not get over 1,000 receiving yards (his first three seasons), since 1999 Harrison has had over 1,000 receiving yards, and at least 10 TD's. For four straight seasons Harrison had over 100 receptions, including the NFL record 143 in 2002. Not to mention that Marvin also has a super bowl ring, although in SB XLI he only had five receptions for 59 yards and no TD's. And in fourteen career playoff games Marvin has only 60 receptions, for 835 yards, and 2 TD's (an average of 4 rec., 60 yds, and .14 TD's per game) that doesn't help out Manning too much, maybe thats why they were only 7-7 in the postseason in Marvin's career. But. Marvin has a super bowl ring, and that will help him get into the hall of fame.
While Marvin has one super bowl ring, and 1,022 career receptions along with 13,697 receiving yards, and 122 career receiving TD's, ex-NFL receiver, Jerry Rice has 3 super bowl rings, and went to a fourth one with the raiders in 2002, but lost. He also has 1,549 career receptions, with 22,895 receiving yards, and 197 receiving TD's. In the postseason Jerry Rice was clutch, unlike Harrison, Rice had 151 rec., 2,245 yds, and 22 TD's in his 28 game postseason career (an average of 5 rec, 80 yds, and .78 TD's per game) it may not seem that much better than Harrison's postseason career, but he had big games when it really mattered. In his super bowl career he had 33 Rec., 589 yds, and 8 TD's (an average of 8 Rec., 147 yds, and 2 TD's per super bowl) in 4 career super bowl appearances. In three of those four super bowls Rice had 148 Receiving yards or better, including a 215 yard performance in 1988 against the bengals, he had 11 receptions in that game.
Both of these receivers are very similar in size too. Rice was 6'2, 200 pounds. While Harrison is 6'0 181 pounds. They both have tremendous speed. I would love to see Rice and Harrison compete against each other in a competition, and I think that Rice could still probably beat Harrison now, even though he is 44 years old, Harrison's days are limited, though, he is 34, he will be 35 on the twenty fifth of August. Harrison is a 8-time pro bowler, maybe even more to come in the coming years, and Rice was a 13-time pro bowler. Maybe when Harrison retires he will face Rice in the show "Dancing with the stars." Who knows.
Well, anyway I think right now Rice is way better, but I think Harrison is catching up to him quickly. Tell me who you think is better. I am curious to see what other people think.
