Golden Tate: The Best Player in The Country.

[Kendrick]

Notre Dame junior receiver Golden Tate is one of the nation's leading receivers with 65 passes for 1,059 yards and 10 touchdowns. And the Panthers know if they take their eyes off him, it is likely they will not win the game.

Tate averages 16.3 yards per catch and he is the kind of star-caliber player who is capable of changing games with big plays in clutch situations.

"Without a doubt, he's the best athlete we've faced all year and he's the best athlete in football right now," said Pitt linebacker Adam Gunn. "He's special and they do a great job of finding ways to get him the ball, whether he is lined up in the backfield in the wildcat package or he's lined up wide.

Notre Dame junior receiver Golden Tate is one of the nation's leading receivers with 65 passes for 1,059 yards and 10 touchdowns. And the Panthers know if they take their eyes off him, it is likely they will not win the game.

Tate averages 16.3 yards per catch and he is the kind of star-caliber player who is capable of changing games with big plays in clutch situations.

Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt said yesterday that calling Tate the best receiver in football is not fair to Tate because he is far more than that -- he might be the best player in the game regardless of position.

"As you watch the tape of all of our opponents I would say without a doubt Golden [Tate] is the best player that we have faced," Wannstedt said at his weekly news conference yesterday. "He does it all.



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[Devil's Gun Trigger Man]

C.J. Spiller would beg to differ

 

[players]

Nobody has stood out and impressed me as "The Best" this year.
Everybody's like a rollercoaster.

I saw Golden Tate a couple times this year and he looked pretty average in some games and unstoppable in others.
Don't read anything into this but there was another college receiver a few years ago who had all the big arse numbers in college but could not put it together game after game in college.

Turned out to be a big arse bust in the pros after all the HOOP-La.
Can you guess/remember who he was from the photo below?

 

[JSUhead]

Nobody has stood out and impressed me as "The Best" this year.
Everybody's like a rollercoaster.

I saw Golden Tate a couple times this year and he looked pretty average in some games and unstoppable in others.
Don't read anything into this but there was another college receiver a few years ago who had all the big arse numbers in college but could not put it together game after game in college.

Turned out to be a big arse bust in the pros after all the HOOP-La.
Can you guess/remember who he was from the photo below?

can't see the picture but i'm guessing you are either talking about Mike Williams or Charles Rogers...both former Detroit Lions

 

[players]

can't see the picture but i'm guessing you are either talking about Mike Williams or Charles Rogers...both former Detroit Lions

JJ Stokes.
He even let a mofo hawk a wad of spit in his face on national TV.
He came out of UCLA with that can't miss tag and then T.O. took his position, heart, teacher(Rice), and lunch money at San francisco.

 

[Kendrick]

JJ Stokes.
He even let a mofo hawk a wad of spit in his face on national TV.
He came out of UCLA with that can't miss tag and then T.O. took his position, heart, teacher(Rice), and lunch money at San francisco.

Yeah, I remember that cat. He was supposed to replace rice as the next great nimer receivert. Stokes came along right around the time owens did and it turned out owens was better.

As far as tate goes, a lot of folk are pretty high on him. It is hard to argue with the numbers. I know a local reporter here who has tate as his number one guy on the heisman ballot.

But NFL scouts project him to be a servicable slot receiver. He kinda reminds me of the college football version of hines ward.