Top Sterling Sharpe Touchdowns | Sterling Sharpe Highlights

The 21 longest touchdown receptions of former Packers WR Sterling Sharpe's NFL career, sorted by distance.

Sterling was the first round, seventh overall, draft pick by the Packers in 1988 and had an immediate impact on the team. In his rookie season, he started all sixteen games and caught 55 passes. His sophomore season he led the league with 90 receptions, the first Packer to do so since Don Hutson in 1945, and broke Hutson's records for receptions and receiving yards in a season. Sharpe was known as a tough receiver with strong hands, who was willing to go over the middle to make difficult catches in traffic.

A few years later, in 1992, Sterling and the new quarterback, Brett Favre, teamed up to become one of the top passing tandems in the league. In the final game of that season, Sterling and Favre hooked up for Shape's 107th reception of the season which broke the NFL's single-season receptions record, set by Art Monk in 1984. That season, Sterling became one of only six players in NFL history to win the outright "Triple Crown" at the receiver position: leading the league in receiving yards, receiving touchdowns, and receptions. Ray Flaherty (1932), Don Hutson (1936, 1941–44), Elroy Hirsch (1951), Raymond Berry (1959) led all three categories during the same season in years before the Super Bowl era. Jerry Rice (1990) and Steve Smith Sr. (2005) are the only other players to accomplish this feat since the first Super Bowl season. In the 1993 season Sterling subsequently broke his own record, with 112 receptions; this also made him the first player to have consecutive seasons catching more than 100 passes. In 1994, his 18 touchdown receptions were the second-most in league history at the time, behind Jerry Rice's 22 in 1987. On October 24, 1993, Sterling became the second Packer in team history to catch four touchdown passes in one game since Don Hutson in 1945.

At the end of the 1994 regular season, Sterling suffered a neck injury which ended his playing career.

After his retirement from the NFL, Sterling Sharpe became an analyst for the NFL Network.

His younger brother, Shannon Sharpe, was one of the NFL's top tight ends from the 1990s to the early 2000s. Shannon retired in 2003 and once again followed in his brother's footsteps, becoming a sportscaster for the NFL pregame show on CBS, The NFL Today. Shannon Sharpe was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011. In his Hall of Fame speech, Shannon implored the Hall of Fame voters to consider Sterling's candidacy.

Sterling's tenure at wide receiver was cut short by the neck injury, ending a career in which he was invited to the Pro Bowl five times (1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, and 1994). Since he was unable to continue playing and was not on the Packers team that won the Super Bowl in 1996, his younger brother Shannon Sharpe gave him the first of the three Super Bowl rings he won

Sterling Sharpe played for the following teams:
1988 Packers
1989 Packers
1990 Packers
1991 Packers
1992 Packers
1993 Packers
1994 Packers

Sterling Sharpe caught touchdown passes from the following players:
Brett Favre
Don Majkowski
Mike Tomczak
Anthony Dilweg
Randy Wright
Blair Kiel

Sterling Sharpe played in the 1989 Pro Bowl, 1990 Pro Bowl, 1992 Pro Bowl, 1993 Pro Bowl, and 1994 Pro Bowl