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Did You Know? A Quick Look At 2004 By The Numbers

Quick, Who led the NFL in passing yards last season? If you guessed Peyton Manning you would be wrong. Try again. Donovan McNabb? Brett Farve? Tom Brady? Once again wrong, wrong and wrong. Daunte Culpepper of the Minnesota Vikings threw for the most yardage last season, 4717 yards. Who was second? Any of the above mentioned? No it was Trent Green from Kansas City Chiefs who came in second with 4591 yds. Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts was third with 4557 yds.

Now let's check out the wide receivers. Who led the NFL in yardage last season? Did anyone guess Marvin Harrison? Terrell Owens? Randy Moss? Tory Holt? Once again you would be wrong. That distinction goes to Muhsin Muhammad of the Carolina Panthers who benefited from Steve Smith's broken leg with 1405 yards. Alright now surely one of those prior mentioned receivers came in second right? Wrong. Joe Horn of the New Orleans Saints did with 1399 yds.. How about 3rd place? Still wrong Jevon Walker of the Green Bay Packers took that spot with 1382 yds.

The tight end position started with all world Tony Gonzales of the Kansas City Chiefs in 1st by a long shot with 1258 yards. In 2nd was a surprising Jason Witten of the Dallas Cowboys with 980 yds.. 3rd was Antonio Gates of the San Diego Chargers with 964 yds.

And last, a glance at he running backs. Who led the league in yardage? Ladanian Tomlinson? Priest Holmes? Deuce McAllister? Duce Staley? Jerome Bettis?Edgerrin James? Jamal Lewis? Nope! It was Curtis Martin of the New York Jets with 1697.And second place? Shaun Alexander of the Seattle Seahawks with 1696. Third place wasn't one of those backs either. It was Corey Dillon Of the New England Patriots with 1635. Did any of these answers surprise you?

Now on to scoring. I would assume everyone knows who threw the most TD's. It was indeed Peyton Manning with 49. 2nd was Daunte Culpepper with 39 and rounding out the top 3 was sorry Rush, Donovan Mcnabb of the Philadelphia Eagles with 31.

Receiving TD's looked like this. First was again Muhsin Muhammad with 16 followed by Marvin Harrison of the Indianapolis Colts with 15 and Terrell Owens of the Philadelphia Eagles with 14.

The tight ends finished with Antonio Gates taking top honors with 13 TD's. In second was a 3 way tie with Daniel Graham of the New England Patriots, Tony Gonzales and Bubba Franks of the Green Bay Packers each with 7 TD's.

The running backs finished with Ladanian Tomlinson of the San Diego Chargers in 1st place with 17 TD's. In 2nd place was Shaun Alexander with 16 and in 3rd Priest Holmes of the Kansas City Chiefs with 14.