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Steve Smith playing in 2016


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per multiple sources. panthers related because he'll go to the HOF as a panther in the minds of the world, and for all his salt he'll probably come home and retire a panther and we'll all go give him a standing ovation.

...but feel free to move it mods

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14466370/wr-steve-smith-sr-says-returning-baltimore-ravens-2016

 

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34 minutes ago, thomas96 said:

Hope he plays into his 40s and ends up only behind Rice in yards and is a 1st ballot HoFer.

to do it he'd have to break 16,000 receiving yards. andre johnson just bumped him out of the top ten a week or two ago, but a thousand yards next year would bump tim brown out of the #6 spot all time. another 300 yards on top of that (attainable if they make the playoffs and do some damage) would vault him to #3 all time, over randy moss. 700 after that (2017 season?) would pass terrell owens for second all-time.

in other words he needs 2000 yards. that's quite a feat at 36. 

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1 minute ago, Jeremy Igo said:

A receiver his age coming off an achilles tear? 

 

Just retire, Steve. 

he probably should, but a mere 122 yards bumps him up two slots on the all-time list. that could make the difference between HOF and an almost-was, and steve knows it

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19 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

he probably should, but a mere 122 yards bumps him up two slots on the all-time list. that could make the difference between HOF and an almost-was, and steve knows it

He's a HOFer right now. Pundits all love him. Getting over 1,000 catches would cement it.

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