The five-time Pro Bowl selection has 850 receptions for 9,930 yards and 56 touchdowns over his 11-year NFL career, all with the Chargers.
Sometime soon, Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen will catch a pass from Justin Herbert and his career receiving yardage will top 10,000. It might happen Monday night when the Chargers play the New York Jets. COSTA MESA — It’s bound to happen sooner or later. Keenan Allen will catch a pass from Justin Herbert and his career receiving yardage will top 10,000. It might happen Monday night when the Chargers play the New York Jets. Or it might happen when they face the Detroit Lions on Nov. 12.
Allen, 31, has played on great teams, average ones and subpar ones during his career. He has made highlight-reel catches seem routine too many times to count. The five-time Pro Bowl selection has lined up out wide, in the slot, been sent in motion and even thrown a touchdown pass himself, a 49-yard strike to wide receiver Mike Williams during the Chargers’ victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Week 3.
“I think just being two different football players,” Allen said of a career that dates to the Chargers drafting him in the third round in 2013 from Cal. “I was a rookie, didn’t know the game that much, just was running around trying to be in the right spot for Phil.”“Right now, I kind of know the offense,” Allen said. “I know what’s going on. I know what the defense is doing. You just understand the game a little more.
Allen is merely paying it forward. He said he learned from playing alongside players such as tight end Antonio Gates, the Chargers’ all-time leader in receptions with 955, receiving yardage with 11,841 and receiving touchdowns with 116. Allen is second with 850 catches and 9.930 yards and fourth with 56 touchdowns.Allen also has been a sounding board for Chargers coach Brandon Staley.
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