Tony Gonzalez Says Julio Jones Better Than Snoop Minnis, Bobby Sippio And So Forth

By Jason Kirk Aug 2, 2011, 3:21pm EDT

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Julio Jones has been drawing praise far and wide since day one of Falcons training camp. Tuesday, Tony Gonzalez joined a list that includes Mike Mayock, Peter King and others in making a mighty proclamation about the rookie receiver:

This kid Julio Jones is the real deal. He's the best incoming receiver I've ever played with. Come to think of it, it's not even close.less than a minute ago via HTC Peep Favorite Retweet ReplyTony Gonzalez
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Quite a compliment from a future Hall of Famer. Actually, once you look at the list of rookie receivers (the ENTIRE list of rookie receivers) Gonzalez has played with during his career, you'll see it's definitely not hyperbole at all.

Here is the entire list, along with each's career stats. We're quite sure Gonzalez didn't sit and review this list before complimenting his teammate. But he could've without having to change a thing. Yes, sure, fine, Dwayne Bowe was good, too:

Kevin Lockett:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
1997	23	KAN		81	9	0	1	35	35.0	0	35	0.1	3.9								35	0	0	0
1998	24	KAN		81	13	3	19	281	14.8	0	38	1.5	21.6								281	0	2	3
1999	25	KAN		81	16	1	34	426	12.5	2	39	2.1	26.6								426	2	0	4
2000	26	KAN	PR	81	16	2	33	422	12.8	2	34	2.1	26.4								422	2	3	4
2001	27	WAS		83	16	0	22	293	13.3	0	34	1.4	18.3								293	0	1	3
2002	28	2TM			13	4	16	205	12.8	4	35	1.2	15.8								205	4	1	2
		WAS		83	6	2	11	129	11.7	2	26	1.8	21.5								129	2	1	1
		JAX		85	7	2	5	76	15.2	2	35	0.7	10.9								76	2	0	1
2003	29	NYJ		89	3	0	5	76	15.2	0	23	1.7	25.3								76	0	0	1
Career					86	10	130	1738	13.4	8	39	1.5	20.2								1738	8	7	17
4 yrs		KAN			54	6	87	1164	13.4	4	39	1.6	21.6								1164	4	5	11
2 yrs		WAS			22	2	33	422	12.8	2	34	1.5	19.2								422	2	2	4
1 yr		JAX			7	2	5	76	15.2	2	35	0.7	10.9								76	2	0	1
1 yr		NYJ			3	0	5	76	15.2	0	23	1.7	25.3								76	0	0	1

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Larry Parker:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb
2000	24	KAN		80	16	0	3	41	13.7	0	27	0.2	2.6	1	-7	0	-7	-7.0	-0.4	0.1	34	0	1
2001	25	KAN		80	12	4	15	199	13.3	2	44	1.3	16.6	3	6	0	7	2.0	0.5	0.3	205	2	0
Career					38	4	18	240	13.3	2	44	0.5	6.3	4	-1	0	7	-0.3	0.0	0.1	239	2	2

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Sylvester Morris:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
2000	23	KAN	WR	84	15	14	48	678	14.1	3	47	3.2	45.2								678	3	3	6
Career					15	14	48	678	14.1	3	47	3.2	45.2								678	3	3	6

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Dante Hall:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb
2001	23	KAN	PR/KR	20	13	0	0	0		0	0	0.0	0.0	2	10	0	6	5.0	0.8	0.2	10	0	2
2002*	24	KAN	PR/KR	82	16	0	20	322	16.1	3	75	1.3	20.1	11	54	0	21	4.9	3.4	0.7	376	3	3
2003*+	25	KAN	PR/KR	82	16	2	40	423	10.6	1	67	2.5	26.4	16	73	0	16	4.6	4.6	1.0	496	1	3
2004	26	KAN	PR/KR/wr	82	16	6	25	230	9.2	0	22	1.6	14.4	8	56	0	17	7.0	3.5	0.5	286	0	1
2005	27	KAN	PR/KR	82	16	2	34	436	12.8	3	52	2.1	27.3	7	11	0	7	1.6	0.7	0.4	447	3	5
2006	28	KAN	PR/KR	82	15	0	26	204	7.8	2	19	1.7	13.6	3	11	0	9	3.7	0.7	0.2	215	2	2
2007	29	STL	PR/KR	82	7	1	5	27	5.4	0	12	0.7	3.9	3	18	0	9	6.0	2.6	0.4	45	0	2
2008	30	STL	KR	82	8	0	12	105	8.8	0	20	1.5	13.1	4	9	0	10	2.3	1.1	0.5	114	0	0
Career					112	11	162	1747	10.8	9	75	1.4	15.6	54	242	0	21	4.5	2.2	0.5	1989	9	19
7 yrs		KAN			97	10	145	1615	11.1	9	75	1.5	16.6	47	215	0	21	4.6	2.2	0.5	1830	9	17
2 yrs		STL			15	1	17	132	7.8	0	20	1.1	8.8	7	27	0	10	3.9	1.8	0.5	159	0	2

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Snoop Minnis:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
2001	24	KAN	WR	81	13	11	33	511	15.5	1	56	2.5	39.3								511	1	0	5
2002	25	KAN		81	2	0	1	4	4.0	0	4	0.5	2.0								4	0	0	0
Career					15	11	34	515	15.1	1	56	2.3	34.3								515	1	0	5

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Marc Boerigter:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
2002	24	KAN		85	16	2	20	420	21.0	8	99	1.3	26.3								420	8	0	5
2003	25	KAN		85	15	0	11	158	14.4	0	30	0.7	10.5								158	0	0	2
2005	27	KAN		85	10	0	8	119	14.9	0	38	0.8	11.9								119	0	0	1
Career					41	2	39	697	17.9	8	99	1.0	17.0								697	8	0	8

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LaShaun Ward:

							Punt Returns					Kick Returns
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Ret	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/R	Rt	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/Rt	APYd	AV
2003	23	KAN		84	1	0						1	11	0	11	11.0	11	0
Career					1	0						1	11	0	11	11.0	11	0

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Richard Smith:

Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	AV
2004	24	KAN		17	4	0	0
Career					4	0	0

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Samie Parker:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
2004	23	KAN		18	4	0	9	137	15.2	1	48	2.3	34.3								137	1	0	1
2005	24	KAN	WR	18	12	9	36	533	14.8	3	49	3.0	44.4								533	3	2	5
2006	25	KAN	WR	18	16	15	41	561	13.7	1	43	2.6	35.1	3	7	0	5	2.3	0.4	0.2	568	1	0	6
2007	26	KAN	wr	18	15	7	24	298	12.4	2	24	1.6	19.9	1	2	0	2	2.0	0.1	0.1	300	2	1	2
Career					47	31	110	1529	13.9	7	49	2.3	32.5	4	9	0	5	2.3	0.2	0.1	1538	7	3	14

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Chris Horn:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
2004	27	KAN		81	14	0	15	178	11.9	1	30	1.1	12.7	1	12	0	12	12.0	0.9	0.1	190	1	0	2
2005	28	KAN		81	14	3	18	187	10.4	0	50	1.3	13.4								187	0	0	2
Career					28	3	33	365	11.1	1	50	1.2	13.0	1	12	0	12	12.0	0.4	0.0	377	1	0	4

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Jeff Webb:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
2006	24	KAN		80	10	0	3	23	7.7	0	11	0.3	2.3								23	0	0	0
2007	25	KAN		80	16	2	28	313	11.2	1	32	1.8	19.6	1	5	0	5	5.0	0.3	0.1	318	1	2	2
2008	26	KAN		80	5	1	5	46	9.2	0	15	1.0	9.2								46	0	0	0
Career					31	3	36	382	10.6	1	32	1.2	12.3	1	5	0	5	5.0	0.2	0.0	387	1	2	2

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Bobby Sippio:

							Punt Returns					Kick Returns
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Ret	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/R	Rt	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/Rt	APYd	AV
2007	27	KAN		83	9	0						1	6	0	6	6.0	6	0
Career					9	0						1	6	0	6	6.0	6	0

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Dwayne Bowe (Hey! He's really good):

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
2007	23	KAN	WR	82	16	15	70	995	14.2	5	58	4.4	62.2								995	5	0	6
2008	24	KAN	WR	82	16	16	86	1022	11.9	7	36	5.4	63.9								1022	7	0	9
2009	25	KAN	WR	82	11	9	47	589	12.5	4	41	4.3	53.5								589	4	1	4
2010*	26	KAN	WR	82	16	16	72	1162	16.1	15	75	4.5	72.6	1	4	0	4	4.0	0.3	0.1	1166	15	1	12
Career					59	56	275	3768	13.7	31	75	4.7	63.9	1	4	0	4	4.0	0.1	0.0	3772	31	2	31

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Kevin Robinson:

							Punt Returns					Kick Returns
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Ret	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/R	Rt	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/Rt	APYd	AV
2008	24	KAN	PR	14	8	0	11	94	0	32	8.5	19	420	0	36	22.1	514	0
Career					8	0	11	94	0	32	8.5	19	420	0	36	22.1	514	0

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Generated 8/2/2011.

Will Franklin:

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
2008	23	KAN		85	13	1	7	83	11.9	0	42	0.5	6.4								83	0	0	1
Career					13	1	7	83	11.9	0	42	0.5	6.4								83	0	0	1

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Generated 8/2/2011.

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