Sterling Sharpe

Sterling Sharpe

Position: WR
Height: 6-0 Weight: 207 lbs.

Born: April 6, 1965 in Chicago, IL
College: South Carolina (school history)
Drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 1st round (7th overall) of the 1988 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 68 (705th overall since 1950)
5-time Pro Bowler & 3-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)

News -- May 2013

5/25 FootballPerspective.com: Ranking wide receivers by percentage of team yards: Seven years ago, Doug wrote this post analyzing wide receivers by team receiving yards. That post was overdue for an update for...

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...
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:...

3/12 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...

2/28 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...

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...

12/31 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....

11/22 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Best Thanksgiving Performances: Stump your family with some Football Perspective trivia today. The tables below show the leaders in various categories in all...
11/6 Lombardi Ave: Remember that great Packers win against the Bears in 1989?: It had been five years since the Green Bay Packers had won a game against the Chicago Bears. Good God, that was 10 straight losses...

9/28 FootballPerspective.com: How the Steelers traded Roy Jefferson and won four Super Bowls: Roy Jefferson isn’t well-remembered today, but he was one of the top receivers at the start of the Super Bowl era. Jefferson...

7/21 FootballPerspective.com: Trivia of the Day – Saturday, July 21st: Last weekend, I asked you to name the fifth of the five running backs who rushed for over 1,000 rushing yards in the final season...