It's not every day that a Canadian scores four touchdowns in an NFL contest.
In fact, Chase Claypool's breakout game on Sunday featured the biggest-ever single-game output by a Canadian. The rookie from Abbotsford, B.C., led the Pittsburgh Steelers (4-0) to a 38-29 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles (1-3-1) with three receiving TDs and one rushing TD, rewriting the record books in the process.
In addition to becoming the first Steelers rookie to reach the end zone four times in a game (and first Pittsburgh player of any kind to do so in over 50 years), 22-year-old Claypool is now the fifth-youngest player in NFL history to score four TDs in the same contest.
Here are some other numbers from Claypool's historic game, via Stats Perform and the NFL:
- Claypool's 110 receiving yards and four scrimmage TDs make him the first rookie since Reggie Bush in 2006 with over 100 receiving yards and four or more scrimmage TDs in a game.
- He's the third rookie WR to record four TDs in one game, and the first since 1979.
- The Steelers rookie is the first Canadian-born NFL player to score three receiving TDs in a game since 1927 (Joe Rooney, Duluth Eskimos).
- Claypool is the first NFL player since 2003 (fifth overall) to score a TD in each quarter of a game.
- He's the first player in five years (fourth since 1990) to record at least three receiving TDs and one rushing TD in a single NFL game.
Claypool started his career by establishing a new record for the longest touchdown from scrimmage by a Canadian with an 84-yard reception in Week 2. With his ever-increasing output, it seems as though the young receiver may break a few more records in the near future.
For more on Claypool throughout the season, watch Rookie Diaries on DAZN.