Rod Smith

Roderick Smith (twitter: @TheREALrodSmith)

Position: WR
Height: 6-0 Weight: 200 lbs.

Born: May 15, 1970 in Texarkana, AR
College: Missouri Southern

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 101 (137th overall since 1950)
3-time Pro Bowler (fine print)

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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...
5/2 NFL Spin Zone: Houston Texans DeAndre Hopkins compared to Rod Smith by Gary Kubiak: The Houston Texans desperately needed to finally add a true No. 2 wide receiver to play alongside Andre Johnson and help the long-time...

4/15 Not in Hall of Fame: 48. Rod Smith: It is one thing to be highly touted out of college and rack up serious statistics in the National Football League. It is quite...
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...
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...

2/23 FootballPerspective.com: Trivia of the Day – Sunday, February 24th: Eight teams in NFL history have rostered five players who — at some point in their career — gained at least 1,000...
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...

1/5 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....

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...
9/21 Not in Hall of Fame: 48. Rod Smith: It is one thing to be highly touted out of college and rack up serious statistics in the National Football League. It is...

7/6 FootballPerspective.com: Franchise leaders — receiving stats: On Wednesday, we looked at the franchise leaders in various passing categories; yesterday we did the same exercise with rushing...

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...