Updated: December 31, 2006, 11:39 PM ET
Week 17: Sunday Studs
Our list of Sunday Studs features two Lions and a Chiefs back who ran his team into the playoffs.
Two Lions among the Stud nominees? Is this The Twilight Zone? Cast your vote in our final Sunday Stud poll of the season, and don't forget to vote for our final regular-season Sunday Dud.
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Mike Furrey
The Detroit wideout had 11 catches for 102 yards, giving him 98 for the season, the most by a non-rookie following a season with no catches. Furrey is a fourth-year player who started 11 games as a defensive back for St. Louis last season. Lionel Taylor had 92 catches for Denver in the AFL in 1960, the previous mark for the most catches by a non-rookie following a season with none. Anquan Boldin of the Cardinals had 101 catches as a rookie in 2003, the most catches by any player with none the previous season.
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Santonio Holmes
If Sunday was Bill Cowher's last game as Steelers coach, Holmes sent him out in style, scoring on a 67-yard touchdown pass in overtime to extinguish the Bengals' playoff hopes in Cincinnati. Holmes, a rookie from Ohio State, caught four passes for 124 yards.
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Steven Jackson
Jackson tortured the Vikings' league-leading run defense for 142 yards on 25 carries. He scored a career-high four TDs, including runs of four, three and 59 yards and a 10-yard reception, in the Rams' rout. Jackson's 59-yard score prevented Minnesota from establishing a post-merger (since 1970) NFL record for fewest yards rushing allowed in a season, missing by 15 the mark of 970 yards set by the Ravens in 2000.
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Larry Johnson
The KC running back set an NFL record he'd rather not have: most carries in a season. "Nobody really wants that record," Johnson said recently. He carried 33 times, giving him a league-record 416 carries for the season, as the Chiefs defeated Jacksonville. Johnson, who finished with 138 yards rushing, ran for a team-record 1,789 yards this season.
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Jon Kitna
Kitna and the lowly Lions (3-13) burned the playoff-bound Cowboys for 304 yards passing in a win in Dallas. Two Lions receivers -- Roy Williams (104 yards) and Mike Furrey (102) -- topped 100 yards receiving as the Cowboys lost for the third straight time at home.





