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Player Kickoff return yards Team Ref. 1960: Leon Burton: 862* New York Titans [3] 1961: Frank Jackson: 645 Dallas Texans [4] 1962: Dick Christy: 824 New York Titans [5] 1963: Bobby Jancik: 1,317* Houston Oilers [6] 1964: Odell Barry: 1,245 Denver Broncos [7] 1965: Abner Haynes: 901 Denver Broncos [8] 1966: Bobby Jancik (2) 875 Houston Oilers [9 ...
A return specialist or kick returner is a player on the special teams unit of a gridiron football team who specializes in returning punts and kickoffs. There are few players who are exclusively return specialists; most also play another position such as wide receiver , defensive back , or running back .
This is a list of National Football League kickoff returners based on their career kickoff return yards. Brian Mitchell is the all-time leader with 14,014 kickoff return yards over 14 seasons. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The NFL’s new kickoff rule did what it was implemented to do in the preseason. Nearly 300 kickoffs were returned in the preseason, a 70.5% return rate that was the highest since 2014.
In his senior year, 2023, he averaged 19.6 yards per punt return and 17.9 yards per kick return, scoring two punt return touchdowns. [5] He finished his collegiate career having started 41 games, totaling 93 tackles and 10 pass breakups on defense and 2,148 return yards and four return touchdowns on 130 total returns.
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.
Of course, the NFL, drawing on the expertise of many special teams coaches, adopted the new kickoff play (beginning with a one-year trial this season) in an effort to bring the return back into ...
In Week 6 of 1996 against the Cincinnati Bengals, he returned 5 kickoffs for 177 yards and 3 punts for 86 yards; the 263 total return yards remains tied with Billy "White Shoes" Johnson for the franchise record as of 2019. When he left the game in 1997, after 12 seasons in pro football, Gray was atop several all-time NFL kick return lists.