Calvin Johnson set the NFL’s single-season receiving record with 1,964 yards during the 2012 season and he doesn’t expect to have that spot in the record books for too much longer.
Johnson said on Monday that it is only “a matter of time” before someone is able to top the record that he set in a 16-game season. Cooper Kupp came close to reaching Johnson’s mark during a 17-game season in 2021 and Johnson noted the likelihood that future aspirants are probably going to have one more game than that to make their run at the No. 1 spot.
“If they go to 18 — well, should we say when they go to 18 games?” Johnson said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “When they go to 18 games it’s no doubt about it. Hands down.”
Matthew Stafford was Johnson’s quarterback in 2012 and Kupp’s quarterback in 2021, so it’s fitting that Johnson thinks Stafford’s current top target Puka Nacua is the player with the best chance of setting the new record.
“That would be kind of dope,” Johnson said. “I’d have to go to that game if he did that, cause I like Puka. He’s getting some crap out of his system that’s just a young guy, just learning, but I think he’s an awesome, dynamic receiver.”
Johnson added that he thought Vikings star Justin Jefferson could be the one to break the record, but believes Minnesota “messed up his quarterback situation” and that Jefferson may have missed his window for a bid at the record as a result.
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