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Knox played in all 14 games for the Bears for the third consecutive season in 1976, totaling two fumble recoveries, one fumble, and one punt return for no yards. [3] He was released by the Bears on September 7, 1977. [2] Knox played in four games for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League in 1978. [1]
Johnny Otis Knox II (born November 3, 1986) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for three seasons with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Abilene Christian University .
Daniel Hardy blocked Ryan Stonehouse's punt and Owens scooped up the ball at the Tennessee 21 and sprinted into the end zone for the score. It pared Tennessee's lead to 17-10. Bears block the punt ...
This is a list of National Football League punt returners who have led the regular season in punt return yards each year. The record for punt return yards in a season is currently held by Desmond Howard of the Green Bay Packers who had 875 yards in 1996.
The Bears opened scoring on Sunday with a punt return for a touchdown aided by some well-executed misdirection. Midway through the first quarter, the Packers Daniel Whelan punted from the Chicago ...
Deonte Harty had an electric 96-yard punt return in the fourth quarter that turned Sunday night's regular-season ... Allen led a go-ahead drive that ended with a 5-yard touchdown to Dawson Knox ...
Net yards per punt, or net average, as opposed to a player's gross average, is considered a more revealing indicator of a punter's performance. [6] This is due to the net average taking into account return yardage or a touchback on the punt which are subtracted from the gross punting yards, or how far the ball travels on a punt. [6]
Sammy Baugh was a 5-time league leader in yards per punt, which is still the most in NFL history, with only one other player ever reaching four seasons leading in yards per punt. His record for yards per punt for a season of 51.4 lasted 82 years. In 1963, Yale Lary became the second player to lead the league yards per punt for a third time.