Unbelievable NFL Records: The Jaw-Dropping Single-Game Receiving Yards You Won't Believe!

It’s not the only notable record Benton was a part of after resuming his playing career. In 1943, Benton played for the Chicago Bears. Quarterback Sid Luckman threw for seven touchdowns in a game that season, and Benton was on the receiving end of two.

Luckman’s record still stands, though it has been equaled seven times. Benton’s does not, though it lasted for 40 years and one month until…

3. Stephone Paige: 309 yards on eight catches

Dec. 22, 1985: Kansas City Chiefs 38, San Diego Chargers 34

Hope you’re ready to be informed about perhaps the oddest receiving performance in NFL history, and one that at the time established a single-game NFL receiving record with the first post-merger 300-yard receiving game. Paige reached 309 yards on just eight catches. The other five receivers to reach 300 yards did so on an average of 12.6 catches for 24.9 yards per catch. All 300-yard receiving games may be unlikely, unsustainable, impossible to replicate, whatever. But Paige’s magical 60 minutes of football were particularly unique in that he finished that 1985 season with a total of 943 receiving yards in 16 games. Paige had one 1,000-yard receiving season, and barely – 1,021 in 1990 – before playing three games in his final season of 1991, but innumerable 1991 Tecmo Super Bowl games under the thumbed tutelage of many. It’s just that he spent them blocking for Christian Okoye and Barry Word.