Most seasons leading league in points scored: 5, (1940–1944; tied)[a][b]
Most seasons leading league in touchdowns: 8 (1935–1938, 1941–1944)[c]
Career NFL statistics
Receptions:
488
Receiving yards:
7,991
Receiving touchdowns:
99
Interceptions:
30
Interception yards:
389
Safeties:
1
Player stats at PFR
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame
Donald Montgomery Hutson (January 31, 1913 – June 26, 1997), nicknamed "the Alabama Antelope", was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). In the era of the one-platoon football, he played as an end and spent his entire 11-year career with the Green Bay Packers. Under head coach Curly Lambeau, Hutson led the Packers to four NFL Championship Games, winning three in 1936, 1939, and 1944.
Hutson joined the Packers in 1935 and played 11 seasons before he retired in 1945. He led the league in receiving yards in seven separate seasons and in receiving touchdowns in nine. A talented safety on defense, he also led the NFL in interceptions in 1940. Hutson was an eight-time All-Pro selection, a four-time All-Star, and was twice awarded the Joe F. Carr Trophy as the NFL Most Valuable Player.
Hutson is considered to have been the first modern wide receiver,[1] and is credited with creating many of the modern pass routes used in the NFL today. He was the dominant receiver of his day, and is widely considered one of the greatest receivers in NFL history.[2][3][4][5][6] Hutson was the first 1,000-yard receiver in the NFL.[7] He held almost all major receiving records at the time of his retirement, including career receptions, yards, and touchdowns.[8] He was inducted as a charter member of both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hutson's number 14 was the first jersey retired by the Packers, and he is a member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. Hutson was selected to the National Football League 50th Anniversary All-Time Team as one of the greatest players of the NFL's first 50 years in 1969, to the 75th in 1994, and to the 100th in 2019.
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Fame. Alabama had two members inducted into the inaugural 1951 class—DonHutson and Frank Thomas. Heisman Trophy Mark Ingram II (2009) Derrick Henry (2015)...
coach Curly Lambeau and its stars were running back Ted Fritsch, end DonHutson, and quarterback Irv Comp. The Giants were led by head coach Steve Owen...
aforementioned MVP awards, with 29 MVP awards going to these players. DonHutson, who played wide receiver for the Packers in the 1930s and 1940s, won...
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