Yards Gained Quotes

If I scramble, I might get 5, 10, 15, 20 yards, but I'm not that fast. I always want to get it to the guys that can make plays.

Guys who aren't going to be brought down on first contact, they'll get you fired up. When you see guys spinning away and getting extra yards, it fires you up.

Really, you don't want to think about yards after the catch when the ball is in the air. You want to think about catching the ball. And then let the rest play its way out.

I guess it's a good thing to do, but people go for 1,000 yards every year, so it's not really a big thing.

This is the honest truth: I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that's a totally overblown stat.

There's always areas of the game you want to improve. For me, specifically, yards after the catch, making those tough, contested catches.

Adrian Peterson has home-run speed.

I'm negative-three yards in the rushing department. Nobody wants to go out with negative-three yards rushing.

Red zone, third down, I want to be the guy who gets the number called. I put a lot of pride into what I do as a receiver in those situations - using my body when we need to make a play.

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.

I want to be known as a guy who breaks tackles; that's the whole objective of the game.

I'm just trying to set my game up to that level of anytime the ball comes my way, I make a play, making people miss and getting the yards after the catch.

The route may, say, go across the field for 22 yards. I know I have to be there, but how I get there is where they allow me to be creative.

Ultimately, the yards really don't matter. So you have to score enough points, and I have been fortunate in my career to have been around some really good play callers, starting with Gary Kubiak and then going with Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, and that was always at the forefront of our minds: How can we create explosive plays?

I feel like a lot of runners in the NFL: the more they get the ball, the more they get into a rhythm.

If they need me to have 25 carries and eight catches a game, whatever they need me to do, I'm ready to go. Or if they need me to have eight carries and six catches but play the whole game and pass protect and help shifts on the D-ends, I'm ready to go.