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Alabama wide outs and 1,000 yard seasons
Posted on 2/20/16 at 11:10 pm
Posted on 2/20/16 at 11:10 pm
It's incredible how few Alabama wide receivers have ever reached or eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark in a season. Granted it shouldn't come as a big surprise because Alabama has been a traditional power run football team since before many of us were born. However before the Saban era these types of seasons were a premium:
1993: David Palmer (61 receptions; 1,000 yards; 16.4 YPC; 7 TDs)
2006: D.J. Hall (62 receptions; 1,056 yards; 17.0 YPC; 5 TDs)
2007: D.J. Hall (67 receptions; 1,005 yards; 15 YPC; 6 TDs)
2010: Julio Jones (78 receptions; 1,133 yards; 14.5 YPC; 7 TDs)
2012: Amari Cooper (59 receptions; 1,000 yards; 16.9 YPC; 11 TDs)
2014: Amari Cooper (124 receptions; 1,727 yards; 13.9 YPC; 16 TDs)
2015: Calvin Ridley (89 receptions; 1,045 yards; 11.7 YPC; 7 TDs)
In all, 5 wide receivers have put up 7 1,000+ yard seasons in the entire history of Alabama football. Five of those seven seasons have occurred in the Nick Saban era.
1993: David Palmer (61 receptions; 1,000 yards; 16.4 YPC; 7 TDs)
2006: D.J. Hall (62 receptions; 1,056 yards; 17.0 YPC; 5 TDs)
2007: D.J. Hall (67 receptions; 1,005 yards; 15 YPC; 6 TDs)
2010: Julio Jones (78 receptions; 1,133 yards; 14.5 YPC; 7 TDs)
2012: Amari Cooper (59 receptions; 1,000 yards; 16.9 YPC; 11 TDs)
2014: Amari Cooper (124 receptions; 1,727 yards; 13.9 YPC; 16 TDs)
2015: Calvin Ridley (89 receptions; 1,045 yards; 11.7 YPC; 7 TDs)
In all, 5 wide receivers have put up 7 1,000+ yard seasons in the entire history of Alabama football. Five of those seven seasons have occurred in the Nick Saban era.
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Posted on 2/21/16 at 12:15 am to RollTide1987
Amari Cooper man. That was a hell of a year for him. Will always regard him as the best and most talented receiver ever (at least until proven otherwise). And that's with Julio Jones right beside him.
Dude is a monster.
Dude is a monster.
Posted on 2/21/16 at 2:12 am to FourThreeForty
I agree. Julio is a better athlete but Coop is the better receiver. Funny how from that class I always expected Chris Black to be the better of the two. Shows that coaching staffs are a whole lot better at evaluating talent than 247 ect.
Posted on 2/21/16 at 4:11 am to Fells
That knucklehead DJ Hall still has the highest YPC average out of that group. What a waste.
Posted on 2/21/16 at 7:03 am to SoFla Tideroller
Stats are not always equal. DJ hall had a higher YOC because he didn't play in an offense that used a lot of WR screens. He was getting downfield on play-action passes a lot in that offenses.
Posted on 2/21/16 at 9:18 am to Ol'DirtyCam
Let's dispel this notion that Lane Kiffin doesn't know what he is doing. Lane Kiffin knows exactly what he's doing.
Posted on 2/21/16 at 11:38 am to RollTide1987
Coop and Julio both had soph slumps IIRC. Let's hope Ridley doesn't.
Posted on 2/21/16 at 11:43 am to RollTide1987
This just shows how good David Palmer was. Anyone getting 1,000 yards with Gene Stallings as a coach, is amazing. I would have loved to see what Palmer would do with Kiffin as his OC.
Posted on 2/21/16 at 2:13 pm to Cobrasize
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This just shows how good David Palmer was. Anyone getting 1,000 yards with Gene Stallings as a coach, is amazing.
He was definitely a beastly talent but his touches went up considerably after Chris Anderson and Sherman Williams both got dinged up by injuries. It was the only season of the Stallings era where we had more passing yards then rushing yards in a single season.
Posted on 2/21/16 at 5:57 pm to RollTide1987
So 71% of Alabama's receivers that surpassed 1000 yards have been under Saban 
Posted on 2/21/16 at 7:33 pm to sarc
Coop was hurt pretty bad all soph year
Posted on 2/21/16 at 8:05 pm to Cobrasize
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This just shows how good David Palmer was. Anyone getting 1,000 yards with Gene Stallings as a coach, is amazing. I would have loved to see what Palmer would do with Kiffin as his OC.
At 5'8" and a pure athlete, I'd guess he would have spent a couple years as an offensive-defensive experiment for CNS with a toss-up between slot receiver and a DB position. But, he may have held down the KO/PR job for 3 yrs and left with every return record in the book.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 2:57 am to FourThreeForty
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Amari Cooper man. That was a hell of a year for him. Will always regard him as the best and most talented receiver ever (at least until proven otherwise). And that's with Julio Jones right beside him.
Dude is a monster.
What's crazy is going back and looking at the team receiving stats that year. He was so far ahead of #2. I don't think he gets anywhere near enough credit for that season. He made Blake. If you replaced him with an above-average wideout, that team would have been pretty mediocre.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 7:49 am to RollTide1987
D.J. Hall - GOAT 
Posted on 2/24/16 at 12:12 pm to ReauxlTide222
Cooper was the best followed by Julio and then Palmer. Ridley's legacy will be defined in the next two years. DJ Hall is the head scratcher to me, dude was very good, but clearly had an attitude problem and never did a thing in the NFL. How was he so good for us with all his short-comings?
I do think Ridley is going to end up being in the Cooper/Julio discussion before he leaves. Guy is a sick talent, and seems to have a good head on his shoulders, humble, hard worker, etc.
I do think Ridley is going to end up being in the Cooper/Julio discussion before he leaves. Guy is a sick talent, and seems to have a good head on his shoulders, humble, hard worker, etc.
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