Larry Fitzgerald

Totaling the second-most receiving yards in NFL history, sure-handed wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald set a standard for consistency and excellence over a 17-year pro career.  

Fitzgerald earned All-America honors at the University of Pittsburgh, won the Biletnikoff Award and finished as Heisman Trophy runner-up in 2003. He was selected third overall in the 2004 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals, where he spent his entire NFL career, and he holds franchise records for receptions (1,432), receiving yards (17,492) and touchdowns (121). 

In Year 2 with the Cardinals, Fitzgerald caught a franchise-record and league-leading 103 passes, becoming the youngest NFL player (22) with a 100-catch season. He earned his first of 11 Pro Bowl invitations. He broke his own team record with a league-leading 107 receptions in 2016.

Fitzgerald fully ascended into the national spotlight in 2008, hauling in a league-leading 12 touchdowns in the regular season while leading the Cardinals to a division title and the franchise’s first home playoff game since 1947. Flourishing in the postseason, he reeled in six passes for 101 yards and a touchdown in his Wild Card Round playoff debut. 

He then tallied eight catches for 166 yards in the divisional round and set an NFL record with three first-half touchdowns in the NFC Championship Game. He scored two more touchdowns in Super Bowl XLIII and broke Jerry Rice’s 1988 postseason records for receiving yards with 546 on 30 receptions with seven touchdowns over four games. 

Fitzgerald eclipsed 1,000 receiving yards in six of his first eight seasons, earning three selections to an All-Pro team in that span. He notched three more 1,000-yard seasons from 2014-16. 

Widely recognized for his impact off the field, Fitzgerald was a co-recipient of the 2016 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award for his charitable and philanthropic work. Named for his mother, the Carol Fitzgerald Memorial Fund and the First Down Foundation help fund books, field trips, supplies and technology to children in Phoenix and Minneapolis, his hometown.