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Marvin Jones

Jones nabs rare game with 4 TD catches

Marvin Jones catches 4 touchdowns against Minnesota, and that’s unusual on multiple fronts. One of the weirder individual games you’ll see.

Catching 4 touchdowns is difficult. In the Super Bowl era, it’s happened only 31 times. Prior to Sunday, it hadn’t happened since 2013.

Marvin Jones becomes the first player to catch 4 TDs for different teams. You may recall a Jets-Bengals game in 2013. Jones got hot and caught 4 TDs against the team that once drafted a linebacker named Marvin Jones in the first round.

Only two other players have caught 4 TDs in a game twice, and they’re both greats – Jerry Rice and Sterling Sharpe.

Additionally, Jones finished Sunday’s game with 10 catches for 93 yards. All of the other players who’ve caught at least 4 TDs in the Super Bowl era have done so with at least 100 receiving yards.

Also not that of the other 33 players catching 4 touchdowns, only three played on teams that lost.

For the chart below, I used the game search tools at PRO FOOTBALL REFERENCE.

CATCHING 4 TOUCHDOWNS IN A GAME
YearPlayerOppScoreNoYardsAvgTD
1968Roy Jefferson, Pitt.at Atl.W 41-211119918.14
1968Lance Alworth, S.D.at Den.W 47-23917119.04
1969Dave Williams, St.L.N.O.L 42-51816420.54
1969Ben Hawkins, Phil.Pitt.W 41-27714520.74
1970Bob Hayes, Dall.Hou.W 52-10618731.24
1973Paul Warfield, Mia.Det.W 34-7610317.24
1973Harold Jackson, LARDall.W 37-31723834.04
1979Jerry Butler, Buff.NYJW 46-311025525.54
1979Ahmad Rashad, Min.S.F.W 28-22715221.74
1980Earnest Gray, NYGat St.L.W 41-35917419.34
1981Kellen Winslow, S.D.at Oak.W 55-211314411.15
1983Roy Green, St.L.Sea.W 33-28613021.74
1985Jimmie Giles, T.B.at Mia.L 38-41711616.64
1985Daryl Turner, Sea.at S.D.W 49-35712117.34
1986Wesley Walker, NYJMia.W 51-45619432.34
1990Jerry Rice, S.F.at Atl.W 45-351322517.35
1991Don Beebe, Buff.Pitt.W 52-341011211.24
1993Sterling Sharpe, G.B.at T.B.W 37-141014714.74
1993Jerry Rice, S.F.at T.B.W 45-21817221.54
1994Sterling Sharpe, G.B.at Dall.L 31-42912213.64
1994Mark Ingram, Mia.at NYJW 28-24911713.04
1996Irving Fryar, Phil.Mia.W 35-28811614.54
1999Isaac Bruce, St.L.S.F.W 42-20513426.84
2003Marcus Robinson, Balt.Sea.W 44-41713118.74
2003Joe Horn, N.O.NYGW 45-7913314.84
2007Terrell Owens, Dall.Was.W 28-23817321.64
2007Randy Moss, N.E.at Buff.W 56-101012812.84
2013Marvin Jones, Cin.NYJW 49-9812215.34
2013Jamaal Charles, K.C.at Oak.W 56-31819524.44
2013Eric Decker, Den.at K.C.W 35-28817421.84
2019Marvin Jones, Det.Min.L 30-4210939.34

—Ian Allan

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