THE CANADIAN PRESS
CFL.ca Staff
TORONTO — We’ve all watched S.J. Green make that diving catch over the middle of the field, arms outstretched and body fully extended — no, not just that one catch, that one he’s done seemingly over and over again while making it look easy, like just another day at the office. We’ve seen Chad Owens and his patented reaching back to haul in a one-hander, the kind of catch many players in pro football might not make with two hands.
We’ve seen Andy Fantuz set the record for most one-handed catches in a single minute and Emmanuel Arceneaux, nearly impossible to stop in the red zone, outmuscle defenders for the touchdown time and time again. And others, like Weston Dressler, they don’t need a highlight-reel catch to grab your attention, they’re just remarkably consistent as in they never drop a pass.
On Thursday, CFL.ca releases the fourth episode of Best in the League, a series that engages current star players in a discussion about the best players in the CFL. This one focuses on the players with the best hands.
The CFL has some receivers with very special ball skills and they seem to put them on display in a million different ways. Even this early in 2015 you could build a pretty remarkable highlight reel of the best catches in the league through just seven weeks.
So we ask, who has the best hands in the CFL? We asked the players, but first we want to hear from the fans.
First, our writers weigh in with their picks:
Steinberg: Adarius Bowman
Dunk: S.J. Green
Cauz: S.J. Green
Nye: S.J. Green
Landry: S.J. Green
Pedersen: S.J. Green
Andy Fantuz is expected to be a popular pick among the fans. He’s been one of the league’s most reliable pass-catchers his entire career, his skills even turning heads in a brief NFL stint. But nothing gets the point across more than this video that set a world record for most one-handed catches in a minute:
S.J. Green is always a popular choice and sometimes it’s not even fair for him — he makes so many incredible diving catches that it’s hardly even news anymore when he does it. He’s already built a highlight package in 2015 bigger than the majority of CFL players will ever make in their careers. Not even exaggerating. Plays like this one, eventually the game-winning catch to beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats this season, are pretty run of the mill for S.J. Green:
