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Featured Player
- Donald Driver - Packers WR
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Driver made the first big play in the second quarter, and it's one for his career highlight reel. Running down the left sideline with rookie cornerback Bradley Fletcher on his heels, Driver fought off Fletcher with his right hand and amazingly pulled in Rodgers' rainbow throw solely with his left. While falling to the turf, he even pinned the ball against his shoulder pads and helmet, and drew a flag for pass interference against Fletcher, who was grabbing his other arm.
Driver declared after the game it might have been the best catch of his career. Driver also admitted to being a bit motivated by something Rodgers told him to read on page 59 of Sunday's game program, an unattributed Packers team preview presumably produced by someone in St. Louis that referred to Driver as the receiving corps' "savvy old man" who had "lost a little juice."
"My mind was a little bit more focused today to go out there and prove that I'm not (what they said)," Driver said. "Just because I'm 34 doesn't mean that I'm old. That's old in dog years maybe but not in human years."
Driver finished the day with four catches for 95 yards, all in the first half. He moved past Sterling Sharpe and into second place on the franchise's all-time receiving yards list with 8,222, trailing only James Lofton (9,656) in team annals. With 591 career receptions, he now needs just five more catches to pass Sharpe (595) for first all-time in that category.
Text: Mike Spofford, Packers.com
Photo: stltoday.com (Getty Images) |
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