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The list of NCAA major college football yearly punt and kickoff return leaders identifies the major college leaders for each season from 1939 to the present. It includes yearly leaders in four statistical categories: (1) total punt return yardage, and (2) yards per punt return, (3) total kickoff return yardage, and (4) yards per kickoff return.
A punt return is one of the receiving team's options to respond to a punt. A player positioned about 35–45 yards from the line of scrimmage (usually a wide receiver or return specialist ) will attempt to catch or pick up the ball after it is punted by the opposing team's punter.
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.
Dolphins take a lead into halftime. The Bills moved the ball well in the first half. But they scored just seven points and trailed at the half. A lot of the blame for that was on Allen.
Kick return yards and punt return yards result from voluntary change in possession and most of the others result from involuntary forms of change in possession known as turnovers. Often kick return and punt return statistics are aggregated. and sometimes they are added to yards from scrimmage to yield all-purpose yards. When kick return yards ...
The return extended BYU’s lead to 31-6 in the 38-9 rout. Kansas State turned the ball over three times across the second and third quarters, and BYU turned all three of those mistakes into points.
None of that, though, encapsulates just the significance of this moment for Moore, who was the Chiefs’ fourth-string punt returner this week after losing three fumbles this season.. He kept ...
A receiver for a punt or kick return signals a "fair catch" by waving his hand in the air before catching the ball, and running after the catch was made. The return is neutralized, and the penalty is deducted from where the receiver caught the ball. Arm raised in the air, before waving it and dropping it back down, similar to the fair catch signal