Don Hutson

Donald Montgomery Hutson

Position: E-DB-DE
Height: 6-1 Weight: 183 lbs.

Born: January 31, 1913 in Pine Bluff, AR
Died: June 26, 1997 in Rancho Mirage, CA
College: Alabama (school history)

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (14598th overall since 1950)
4-time Pro Bowler & 8-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
Inducted into Hall of Fame in 1963

News -- April 2013

4/8 FootballPerspective.com: Forgotten Stars: Hugh Taylor: Only three players in NFL history have been responsible for half of their team’s receiving touchdowns over a six-year period:...

3/5 FootballPerspective.com: Career Receiving Numbers Translated to the 2012 Passing Environment: I’ve written several posts about how to grade wide receivers and did a three-part series on one ranking system two weeks...
3/3 FootballPerspective.com: Jimmy Smith is one of the best wide receivers in NFL history: Jacksonville’s Jimmy Smith was first eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2011. He was cut early in the process, failing to...

2/28 Lombardi Ave: Sterling Sharpe: ‘The Day the Game Died”: In my mind, today is known as “The day the game died” – for on this date in 1995, the Green Bay Packers released...
2/19 FootballPerspective.com: The Greatest Wide Receivers Ever Version 2.0: Part III – Career Rankings: On Monday, I explained my methodology for ranking every wide receiver in football history, and yesterday, I presented a list of...
2/18 FootballPerspective.com: The Greatest Wide Receivers Ever Version 2.0: Part II – Single season leaders: Yesterday, I explained my methodology for ranking every wide receiver in football history. Today I’m going to present a...
2/6 FootballPerspective.com: NFL Retired Numbers, Player Deaths, and the Stories Behind Them: The table below lists every retired number for each of the 32 franchises. It also lists each player’s career AV (starting...

12/31 FootballPerspective.com: Examining the seasons of Calvin Johnson and Brandon Marshall in a different light: Three weeks ago, I set forth the argument that perhaps Calvin Johnson was not even the most productive receiver in his own division....
12/9 FootballPerspective.com: Larry Fitzgerald, innocent bystander: In the preseason, I wrote a post showing what percentage of each receiver’s receiving yards came from each of their quarterbacks....

6/29 Lombardi Ave: Hutson, considered the best, dies on this date 15 years ago: The debate of late about who is the greatest Packer player of all time brings today’s look at Packers history into better...
6/22 FootballPerspective.com: The best and worst wide receiver records: On Tuesday, I looked at running back records and argued that Steven Jackson had taken the mantle from Ollie Matson as the most...