"Since coming to the Patriots [team stats] via a 2007 trade with the Miami Dolphins, wide receiver Wes Welker has played in 69 games and leads the NFL with 498 receptions over that span. With two more catches tonight against the Jets, Welker would become the fastest player to record 500 receptions with one team (70 games), breaking the record of 80 games that Anquan Boldin set with the Arizona Cardinals between 2003 and 2008.

What's perhaps even more impressive is that the diminutive Patriots wideout would also become just the fourth player in NFL history with at least 500 catches in any five-year span. Only Marvin Harrison (five times), Cris Carter (twice) and Hall of Famer Jerry Rice (once) have done that.

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