Factoid
Tonight’s NFL Network game features the only two tight ends who’ve caught 3 TDs in a game in the last three years. Vernon Davis did it earlier in the year at Houston, and Greg Olsen did it on Sunday against Arizona.
Which begs the question: If a player catches 3 TDs, does that make him more likely to score the following week? In the last two years, for example, only three wide receivers have caught 3 TDs in a game, and none of those guys scored at all the following week. This has happened to Randy Moss twice, and it happened to Laveranues Coles last year after he caught 3 TDs in a game against the Cardinals (the same secondary, ironically, that Olsen worked against last week.
Below is the tight ends list – all tight ends who’ve caught 3 TDs in a game since the start of the 2003. Only three of these seven tight ends caught a touchdown in their following game.
TIGHT ENDS SCORING 3 TDS (2003-2009)
How they fared in their next game:
TD
0 Shannon Sharpe, Den. (2003)
0 Mark Campbell, Buff. (2004)
0 Steve Heiden, Clev. (2004)
1 Antonio Gates, S.D. (2004)
0 Antonio Gates, S.D. (2005)
1 Chris Cooley, Wash. (2005)
1 Vernon Davis, S.F. (2009)
? Greg Olsen, Chi. (2009)
—Ian Allan
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