Dennis Northcutt and the Greatest WR4 Season in History

Welcome back to the Gridiron Deep Dive everybody, where we’re doing a bit of a hybrid piece today. Not quite byte sized, but not longform either.If you read last week’s post about Kelly Holcomb and the Browns’ performance in their 2002 wild card playoff game (which I highly recommend. It’s a good one!), you’re bound to have noticed that you heard the name Dennis Northcutt a lot of times.Dennis scythed through the Pittsburgh secondary that day, to the tune of six catches and 92 receiving yards on just eight targets, on a sloppy field, in the snow. It was nothing short of a fantastic playoff performance. In a game featuring both Hines Ward and Plaxico Burress (both 1300+ yard WRs in 2002), the best WR on the field was clearly Dennis Northcutt, who finished the 2002 season with just 51 targets.Gridiron Deep Dive is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.That game ended with Dennis dropping the most important…