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In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest was an All-American kick returner for the Alabama Crimson Tide under Bear Bryant in the mid 1960s. Brian Mitchell, who played running back in the NFL for 14 seasons, is the league's career leader in kickoff return yards (14,014) and punt return yards (4,999) by a very wide margin.
The length of the punt is measured from the line of scrimmage to the spot of the catch or the point where the kick goes out of bounds. The punt return is measured independently, though the value of the punt to the kicking team is determined by distance from the line of scrimmage to the end of the return.
Punters therefore must be able to kick the ball high, long distances, and precisely. One standard is that a punt should be in the air for at least 1 second for every 10 yards it travels, [1] but the linear relationship drops off once it hits over 50 yards. [2] Chicago Bears punter Brad Maynard (#4) holds for placekicker Robbie Gould.
Because of an injury, the Chiefs likely going to use new players as return specialists vs. Chicago on Sunday. Here are Chiefs’ options for punt and kickoff returns if Richie James is out vs ...
A fair catch of a punt in American football. A fair catch is a feature of American football and several other codes of football, in which a player attempting to catch a ball kicked by the opposing team – either on a kickoff or punt – is entitled to catch the ball without interference from any member of the kicking team. [1]
That would’ve been the longest punt return of the Chiefs’ season if it hadn’t gotten wiped out by a holding penalty. His final opportunity late in the fourth quarter had no such callback.
The return was just the seventh of the season for Blackwell, who's Chicago's secondary punt returner behind DeAndre Carter. At 4-12 entering Sunday's game, the Bears had long been eliminated from ...
Kevin Kelly and the 2007 Penn State Nittany Lions football team kicks the ball off after scoring a touchdown in their season opening game. A kickoff is a method of starting a drive in gridiron football. Additionally, it may refer to a kickoff time, the scheduled time of the first kickoff of a game. Typically, a kickoff consists of one team ...