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Jerry Rice

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Jerry Rice had already done it all as a 49er, catching passes for 19,247 yards and 176 TDs before moving across the Bay to the Raiders. Too old? Not quite. In his three full seasons in Oakland, he caught passes for better than 3,200 yards and 18 more scores.