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Cooper becomes Alabama’s all-time leader in receiving yards

Christopher Walsh

By Christopher Walsh

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BATON ROUGE, La. — Another week, another record-setting performance for University of Alabama junior wide receiver Amari Cooper, who is now the Crimson Tide’s all-time leader in receiving yards.

With his first reception at Tiger Stadium on Saturday night, a 9-yard gain, Cooper broke the Alabama mark for receiving yards during a single season, previously held by Julio Jones.

He then set the career mark with his 23-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter.

“It’s great,” Cooper said. “One of things that I want to do in life, and in football is to leave indelible marks. Hopefully it’ll never be broken.”

Cooper had eight receptions for 83 yards, giving him 2,951 for his career.

He came into the game with 71 receptions for 1,132 yards and nine touchdown catches. The Alabama single-season records were 78 and 1,133 (Jones in 2010) and 11 (Cooper in 2012).

His final catch gave him 79 for the season, setting that record as well, for 1,215 yards with three regular season games to go.

Cooper is pace to finish the regular season with 105 catches, 1,620 yards and 13 touchdowns.

He also came into the game with 2,868 career receiving yards, needing 56 to break the Alabama record held by DJ Hall (2,923).

Cooper needs 12 more receptions to break Hall’s career mark of 194.

Christopher Walsh

Christopher Walsh has covered Alabama football since 2004 and is the author of 19 books. In his free time, he writes about college football.

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