Was Justin Jefferson’s catch higher than OBJ’s?

Vikings extensive receiver Justin Jefferson hauled in an all-time nice catch throughout Minnesota’s outstanding 33-30 win over Buffalo on Sunday.

It got here in an important spot, preserving the Vikings’ last-ditch effort to place factors on the board in a recreation that appeared all however over early within the fourth. 

However Jefferson’s snag helped preserve Minnesota alive on fourth-and-long, and the Vikings ultimately earned a victory that stored them close to the highest of the NFC at 8-1. 

And whereas quite a few performs from the affair will lengthy be remembered, Jefferson’s dazzling catch takes the cake. 

For Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer Shannon Sharpe, it’s the very best catch he’s seen in a very long time, even higher than Odell Beckham Jr.’s gargantuan one-hander for the Giants years in the past.

“The circumstances during which Jefferson caught the ball had been extra spectacular [than Beckham’s]. It was a 32-yard catch, it’s fourth-and-18, and proper now it’s the catch of the 12 months,” Sharpe mentioned Monday on “Undisputed.” ” … It’s in all probability going to win some type of award. In case you take a look at it, if he doesn’t make this catch, the sport’s over.

” … OBJ’s [catch] made the rating 7-3. It was phenomenal … but it surely wasn’t fourth-and-18 within the fourth quarter, do-or-die scenario. And likewise, Dallas got here again and received the [Beckham] recreation. … This was unbelievable. As a result of Jefferson’s catch, when it occurred … he doesn’t make this catch, they’re dropping the sport!”

Skip Bayless couldn’t coincide together with his cohost, as a substitute arguing that Beckham’s catch required extra dexterity.

“It’s not even in the identical stratosphere with Odell’s,” he argued. “I offer you circumstance … however the level is, if I simply do in a vacuum, which is the very best catch by itself? It’s utterly one hand, by himself, with nothing taking place to that hand as he goes to the bottom. … That is all Odell, on a regular basis. He goes and snatches it with one hand all the best way again behind his head, hauls it again in to the No. 13, and controls it to the bottom as he hits on his again.”

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