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Larry Fitzgerald with the Arizona Cardinals, 2017
With the Arizona Cardinals, 2017. Photo: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Receiver, Pittsburgh, 2002–⁠03

Larry Fitzgerald

Lettered 2002–⁠03 (school media guide)

Hometown
Minneapolis, MN
Born
Aug 31, 1983, in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Larry Fitzgerald played receiver at Pittsburgh (2002–⁠03). He won the 2003 Biletnikoff Award and the 2003 Walter Camp Award. He finished second in the 2003 Heisman vote and was a consensus All‑American in 2003. The Arizona Cardinals took Fitzgerald in the first round, No. 3 overall in the 2004 NFL Draft. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2024.

Best season
2003
Biletnikoff Award, Walter Camp Award and 6 more
National rank
No. 1
In the nation in receiving touchdowns, 2003
Drafted
No. 3
Overall, 2004 NFL Draft (Arizona Cardinals)

Honors

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Season by season, from Wikipedia

SeasonReceiving
RecYdsAvgTD
2002691,00514.612
2003921,67218.222
Career1612,67734

From the college statistics table in Fitzgerald’s Wikipedia article (Larry Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).

The teams in those years

Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.

Before the draft

DrillCombine or pro day 2004
Height6′2⅞″
Weight225 lb
Arm length32⅛″
Hand size9⅞″
40-yard dash4.47 s
Vertical jump35″
Broad jump10′1″
3-cone drill6.97 s
20-yard shuttle4.27 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

17 seasons, 263 games with a stat; latest team: Arizona Cardinals.

Pro Bowls: 11 (2005, 2007–⁠13, 2015–⁠17) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 2008 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2 (2009, 2011)

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2008; AP second team 2009, 2011; Pro Football Writers first team 2008; Sporting News first team 2008–⁠09.

SeasonTeamGRecYdsTD
2004Arizona Cardinals16587808
2005Arizona Cardinals161031,40910
2006Arizona Cardinals13689416
2007Arizona Cardinals151011,41210
2008Arizona Cardinals16961,43412
2009Arizona Cardinals16971,09213
2010Arizona Cardinals16901,1376
2011Arizona Cardinals16801,4118
2012Arizona Cardinals16717984
2013Arizona Cardinals168295410
2014Arizona Cardinals14637842
2015Arizona Cardinals161091,2159
2016Arizona Cardinals161071,0236
2017Arizona Cardinals161091,1566
2018Arizona Cardinals16697346
2019Arizona Cardinals16758044
2020Arizona Cardinals13544091
NFL career2631,43217,493121

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Books

And 1 more

Books: Open Library (CC0); most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

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