Brock Bowers set a new rookie receiving yards record for tight ends on Sunday, surpassing Mike Ditka’s mark of 1,076 set in 1961, during the Las Vegas Raiders’ matchup with the New Orleans Saints.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Brock Bowers has broken Mike Ditka’s 1961 record for yards receiving by a rookie tight end. Drafted by the Las Vegas Raiders 13th overall out of Georgia, Bowers eclipsed Ditka’s mark of 1,076 yards when he made a 13-yard catch late in the second quarter on Sunday against New Orleans.

The Raiders tight end's seven receptions for 77 yards gives him a total of 108 receptions for 1,144 yards in 16 games this season, surpassing the mark for a rookie that Mike Ditka

Brock Bowers is rewriting the NFL record books Sunday. The Las Vegas Raiders tight end now has the most receiving yards for a tight end in his rookie season in NFL history, breaking Mike Ditka's 63-year old record for most receiving yards by a tight end in his rookie season in the second quarter of Sunday's game against the New Orleans Saints .

Mike Ditka’s rookie tight end receiving yards record stood for 63 years. Today Raiders TE Brock Bowers broke it.

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Las Vegas Raiders tight end Brock Bowers is officially in the record books. As Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk, Bowers surpassed Chicago Bears

Brock Bowers of the Las Vegas Raiders moved past Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka on Sunday to set the NFL record for most receiving yards by a tight

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