Los Angeles Rams all-time Mount Rushmore

LOS ANGELES, CA - CIRCA 1971: (L-R) Jack Youngblood #85, Deacon Jones #75, Merlin Olsen #74 and Gregory Wojcik #78 of the Los Angeles Rams looks on during an NFL football game circa 1971 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. Olsen played for the Rams from 1962-76. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images) /

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3. WR Isaac Bruce

Do you know the fairly unheralded receiver who is fifth on the NFL’s all-time receiving yards list? If you said Bruce, you are either a Rams’ fan going back awhile, a fantasy football owner that owned him in some of his best years (raising my hand) or Google and/or Pro Football Reference is your friend. But indeed there he is with 15,208 yards, and he’s also top-15 all-time in catches (1,024; 13th) and receiving touchdowns (91; 12th).

Bruce was a key cog in the most prolific of Rams’ offenses, with over 1,100 yards each season from 1999-2001. But his success pre-dates that run, with 119 catches for 1,781 yards (second in the league) and 13 touchdowns as a second-year player in 1995, and a league-leading 1,338 yards in 1996.

Bruce also aged pretty gracefully, with 89 catches for over 1,200 yards in 2004 as a 32-year old and 74 receptions for over 1,000 yards as a 34-year old in 2006. For some reference, Randy Moss spent his age-34 season (2011) out of the league before coming back in 2012. At 36 years old, in 2008 with the 49ers, Bruce had 61 receptions.

Bruce got elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, finally. So he and his underappreciated career will get proper recognition on that scale, but Bruce gets his bust carved into the Rams’ Mount Rushmore here first.

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