Best hands? Imo, it isn't even close. Beckham had the most unbelievable hands I have ever seen. What he was able to do was remarkable.
With that said, I am not putting him up there in the top anything when it comes to making a clutch catch in an important moment just based off that GB game. It was too easy for people to get in his head and mess up his concentration. But in terms of pure hands he is at the top of the list.
I still think Nicks in terms of hands and clutch moments.
Best hands? Imo, it isn't even close. Beckham had the most unbelievable hands I have ever seen. What he was able to do was remarkable.
With that said, I am not putting him up there in the top anything when it comes to making a clutch catch in an important moment just based off that GB game. It was too easy for people to get in his head and mess up his concentration. But in terms of pure hands he is at the top of the list.
I still think Nicks in terms of hands and clutch moments.
ODB had the best hand... but his hands didn't show up in Green Bay playoffs... must have lost them on the boat trip... Mark Bavaro, Bobby Johnson and Bob Tucker had better hands when it counted, but I agree, Hakeem Nicks and Steve Smith certainly were the most consistent receiving targets.
Best hands? Imo, it isn't even close. Beckham had the most unbelievable hands I have ever seen. What he was able to do was remarkable.
With that said, I am not putting him up there in the top anything when it comes to making a clutch catch in an important moment just based off that GB game. It was too easy for people to get in his head and mess up his concentration. But in terms of pure hands he is at the top of the list.
I still think Nicks in terms of hands and clutch moments.
Beckham has really good hands. Just not in playoff games. LOL
He had an issue with making tough catches when guys were draped all over him. A lot of times he’d get his hands on the ball but the DB would be able to break it up. There was a Patriots game where Malcolm Butler must have knocked it out of Odells hands 5x in the game to prevent completions.
Now none of those plays would be classified as Odell “drops” but those are catches he needed to make. Those are the catches that have made Larry Fitzgerald and Deandre Hopkins so special. Hakeem Nicks was strong enough to make those catches. Hell, Sterling Shepard has made more of those catches than Odell.
Nicks. His huge mitts engulfed passes and I don’t think he ever had issues with drops nor can I remember any really costly drops he had. But I can remember a number of clutch catches.
SMH. That opinion is ill informed, inaccurate, and shows a remarkable lack of consciosness of Toomer's early career with the Giants when he almost exclusively "body caught" and basically couldn't catch a cold on a NY winter day.
Toomer arrived to the NFL with terrible hands!
To his credit, he greatly improved in that area. But he didn't have "great hands" by any stretch of the imagination.
I guess people focus on the acrobatic catches but forget that he was near the tops in drop passes in a single season. He dropped a good amount of easy ones let’s not forget green bay playoff game.
Nicks and plax come to mind. Great hands might give a slight edge to nicks
I guess people focus on the acrobatic catches but forget that he was near the tops in drop passes in a single season. He dropped a good amount of easy ones let’s not forget green bay playoff game.
Nicks and plax come to mind. Great hands might give a slight edge to nicks
That comment about Beckham says a lot. I'll go with Nicks.
just because no one has mentioned him, and I recall him bailing Simms out a lot... I remember lots of third down and ... with Simms seemingly be chased out of the pocket or rolling out and finding McConkey...
I guess people focus on the acrobatic catches but forget that he was near the tops in drop passes in a single season. He dropped a good amount of easy ones let’s not forget green bay playoff game.
Nicks and plax come to mind. Great hands might give a slight edge to nicks
thank you. Beckham did not have great hands. Nicks did. and Burress and Toomer. and they did it with the $$ on the table
When they practiced with the jugs gun, they did stuff that I never saw anyone else do. They both could catch the ball one-handed with either hand. Odell would practice catching the ball while lying on on the ground...on his back! Odell and Plax both had fun doing it, too. They made it look so easy.
This is my favorite catch. Shockey catches the ball and Dawkins make the correct defensive move by getting his arm in between Shockey's and ripping one of Shockey's hands off the ball. But Shockey has big mitts and he holds onto the ball with his OTHER hand. Unbelievable! Link - ( New Window )
is a good candidate, but one of the biggest flip outs in BBI history was Nicks dropping a sure TD against Dallas that bounced up into the air and was intercepted at the goal line, costing us a game.
Half of BBI wanted to run him out of town after that.
list as I still see him from early on in 1985 game against Dallas (the Jeffcoat Int game) where early on in the game Simms throws a great deep pass to an open PM who just flat out drops the ball. That play alone could have meant a major change in momentum and the ultimate outcome.
That was a day he had 6 for over 100 yards but that one play could have changed the game!
No, seriously, Toomer had some great hands
With that said, I am not putting him up there in the top anything when it comes to making a clutch catch in an important moment just based off that GB game. It was too easy for people to get in his head and mess up his concentration. But in terms of pure hands he is at the top of the list.
I still think Nicks in terms of hands and clutch moments.
With that said, I am not putting him up there in the top anything when it comes to making a clutch catch in an important moment just based off that GB game. It was too easy for people to get in his head and mess up his concentration. But in terms of pure hands he is at the top of the list.
I still think Nicks in terms of hands and clutch moments.
ODB had the best hand... but his hands didn't show up in Green Bay playoffs... must have lost them on the boat trip... Mark Bavaro, Bobby Johnson and Bob Tucker had better hands when it counted, but I agree, Hakeem Nicks and Steve Smith certainly were the most consistent receiving targets.
With that said, I am not putting him up there in the top anything when it comes to making a clutch catch in an important moment just based off that GB game. It was too easy for people to get in his head and mess up his concentration. But in terms of pure hands he is at the top of the list.
I still think Nicks in terms of hands and clutch moments.
Beckham has really good hands. Just not in playoff games. LOL
Now none of those plays would be classified as Odell “drops” but those are catches he needed to make. Those are the catches that have made Larry Fitzgerald and Deandre Hopkins so special. Hakeem Nicks was strong enough to make those catches. Hell, Sterling Shepard has made more of those catches than Odell.
2nd When he was focused Jeremy Shockey
Just don't ask him to field an onside kick.
3. Plax
That’s the first name I thought of when I read the question
No. 38 was a dependable, tough player on a bunch of God-awful teams...
Surest hands/least drops: Toomer
Toomer also was great.
But as far as consistently catching the ball, I'd go with Toomer
What about "what Giants receiver had the WORST hands you've seen"
Gotta be a three-way tie between Tim Carter, Sinorice Moss and Preston Parker, right?
Toomer arrived to the NFL with terrible hands!
To his credit, he greatly improved in that area. But he didn't have "great hands" by any stretch of the imagination.
I guess people focus on the acrobatic catches but forget that he was near the tops in drop passes in a single season. He dropped a good amount of easy ones let’s not forget green bay playoff game.
Nicks and plax come to mind. Great hands might give a slight edge to nicks
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Nicks had big hands, not sure about great hands.
I guess people focus on the acrobatic catches but forget that he was near the tops in drop passes in a single season. He dropped a good amount of easy ones let’s not forget green bay playoff game.
Nicks and plax come to mind. Great hands might give a slight edge to nicks
That comment about Beckham says a lot. I'll go with Nicks.
Just don't ask him to field an onside kick.
I was gonna say Chris Calloway, but that you said the rest E, lol.
Whoever is talking about Odell has a short memory. Yes he had some nice one handed grabs but he dropped balls in bad spots.
Like the infamous Carolina game when he was 10 yards behind Norman, then there was that playoff game
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Nicks had big hands, not sure about great hands.
I guess people focus on the acrobatic catches but forget that he was near the tops in drop passes in a single season. He dropped a good amount of easy ones let’s not forget green bay playoff game.
Nicks and plax come to mind. Great hands might give a slight edge to nicks
thank you. Beckham did not have great hands. Nicks did. and Burress and Toomer. and they did it with the $$ on the table
This is my favorite catch. Shockey catches the ball and Dawkins make the correct defensive move by getting his arm in between Shockey's and ripping one of Shockey's hands off the ball. But Shockey has big mitts and he holds onto the ball with his OTHER hand. Unbelievable!
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Half of BBI wanted to run him out of town after that.
That was a day he had 6 for over 100 yards but that one play could have changed the game!