James Lofton

James David Lofton

Position: WR
Height: 6-3 Weight: 192 lbs.

Born: July 5, 1956 in Fort Ord, CA
College: Stanford (school history)
Drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 1st round (6th overall) of the 1978 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 101 (137th overall since 1950)
8-time Pro Bowler & 1-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
Inducted into Hall of Fame in 2003, finalist in 2000, 2002

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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:...
4/2 Lombardi Ave: Lynn Dickey: A Green Bay Packers great: I remember the first time I saw Green Bay Packers quarterback Lynn Dickey throw the football while warming up on the sidelines...

3/12 FootballPerspective.com: Examining Paul Warfield’s career: Paul Warfield has been confounding stat heads for years. Warfield was a rare first-ballot Hall of Fame wide receiver and one of...
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...

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...
2/19 Lombardi Ave: New generation of Green Bay Packers fans are spoiled: It seems like a new generation of Green Bay Packers fans are taking over – they’re taking over Facebook; they’re...
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...

1/31 The Packer Perspective: Donald Driver: a Brief Retrospective: How do you summarize the career of one of the greatest players to wear a particular team’s uniform? Well, certainly not...
1/5 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Career receiving stats in wins and losses: Last weekend, I looked at career rushing stats in wins and losses, and yesterday, I did the same for quarterbacks. Today we will...

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....

11/30 The Jet Press: 1982 New York Jets: A Look Back Continues: As we continue our look back on this near special season, we come to game #4, now a couple of weeks removed from the extended...
11/10 Lombardi Ave: Did you know James Lofton played both ways?: It was a fact about Hall of Famer James Lofton that I may have known at one time, but was quickly reminded by the Green Bay Packers...