When Shannon Sharpe retired from the NFL after the 2003 season, he held nearly every major receiving record for the Broncos, for all players, as well as career records for NFL tight ends.
Accolades
Eight Pro Bowls: 1992-1998, 2001
First-team All-Decade Team for the 1990s
Broncos Ring of Fame inductee: 2009
Three Super Bowl rings: 1997, 1998, 2000
Broncos’ records
Where Sharpe ranked in the Broncos’ record book when he retired:
675 Most career receptions (record broken by Rod Smith, 849)
55 Most receiving touchdowns (broken by Smith, 68)
8,439 Second most career receiving yards (Smith, 11,389)
214 Single-game receiving yards vs. Kansas City, Oct. 20, 2002. (Also an NFL record for a tight end.)
3 Most touchdowns in a game — which he did twice (tied with nine others)
47 Most postseason receptions: 47 catches in 12 games.
NFL records
NFL records held when Sharpe retired:
815 Most receptions by a tight end (since broken by Tony Gonzalez)
10,060 Most receiving yards by a tight end (since broken by Gonzalez)
62 Most receiving touchdowns by a tight end (since broken by Gonzalez)
Postseason feats
96 NFL postseason record for longest catch: 96-yard touchdown in 2000 AFC championship game for Baltimore.
13 His 13 catches in a 1993 playoff game against the Raiders were tied for the most (with Kellen Winslow and Thurman Thomas) in a postseason game.
Lindsay H. Jones, The Denver Post
