George Fant, for a brief moment, had one more catch than Minnesota Vikings’ star receiver Adam Theilen on Monday.
George. Fant. The 6-foot-5, 322-pound 26-year-old. He had more catches than the Pro Bowl pass catcher, Thielen, who already had 1,166 receiving yards.
It wasn’t all that graceful. But it was fairly Fant-abulous on primetime Monday Night Football, no less.
Fant’s No. 74 has to be announced over the loudspeakers that he’s an eligible receiver in the Seahawks’ jumbo run package. But he slipped out to the flat on Seattle’s opening drive of the second half and rumbled nine yards before he, well, tripped on the turf just short of the first down.