Torry Holt Standout Wide Receiver of...

June 5, 1976 - Gibbonsville, North Carolina - Torry Holt is well remembered as the great St. Louis Rams WR who caught passes from Kurt Warner as part of the Greatest Show on Turf.

Mr Holt also excelled as a receiver in college at North Carolina State University. His collegiate accolades are well remembered in the College Hall of Fame after he was inducted in 2019. The website Holt Brothers.com shares with us that during his senior year at NC State, Torry was a first-team All-American and was named ACC Offensive Player of the Year. He had 88 receptions for 1,604 yards and a record number of touchdowns for NC State with 16. During his junior year, he set Wolfpack season records with 62 receptions for 1,099 yards, becoming the first player in team history to gain more than 1,000 yards in a season. Torry was the sixth overall pick in the 1999 NFL Draft by the Rams and was a key component of their prolific offense. And what did Holt do in the NFL? Well, for starters, he is the only receiver in NFL history to record 1,300 or more yards in six consecutive seasons.

The NFL.com tells us that Torry had 13382 yards receiving and 74 touchdowns during his time in the NFL with both the Rams and the Jacksonville Jaguars.