Drew Pearson

Drew Pearson

Position: WR
Height: 6-0 Weight: 184 lbs.

Born: January 12, 1951 in South River, NJ
College: Tulsa (school history)

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 79 (415th overall since 1950)
3-time Pro Bowler & 3-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)

News -- April 2013

4/15 Not in Hall of Fame: 31. Drew Pearson: As shown with earlier entries, the 1970’s may have delivered some great wide receivers but statistically they don’t measure...
4/12 FootballPerspective.com: Which Player Has Scored the Most Game-Winning Touchdowns: Five years ago, Doug wrote an interesting post about game-winning touchdowns. Let’s be clear: tracking things like game-winning...

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...
2/18 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...

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...

9/21 Not in Hall of Fame: 31. Drew Pearson: As shown with earlier entries, the 1970’s may have delivered some great wide receivers but statistically they don’t measure...

8/5 FootballPerspective.com: Trivia of the Day – Sunday, August 5th: There have been 105 teams to have at least two players gain 1,000 receiving yards in a season. It first happened in 1960 in the...

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...