It's official: Jabrill Peppers is the punt return specialist

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Hoke: punt return duties will go to jabrill peppers

— Sam Webb (@SamWebb77) August 22, 2014
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alum96

August 22nd, 2014 at 7:49 PM ^

whoa man...whoa.  Didn't even know kids your age used "paper" - thought it was all fancy schmancy wired stuff - the cloud man, the cloud!... and that fancy "10101001010" electron stuff.  Old school man...old school. Nice.

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GoBLUinTX

August 22nd, 2014 at 8:05 PM ^

that the obverse to your observation is that your own team has to be giving up a boat load of scores for your Kick Returner to rack up a boat load of returns.

I'd much rather see our KO returner get one return for 30 yards per game than the gaudy numbers you're talking about.  The Punt Returner, on the other hand, is a horse of a different colour.

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Unfiltered Manball

August 22nd, 2014 at 9:09 PM ^

Breaston's records- he'll have earned it.  He has been an exciting return man and hopefully will finally reach pay-dirt on one this season.

However, what would Norfleet setting the record for number of KOR already as a junior mean?  Did DN field a larger percentage of kick-offs than SB because the other return man caught more on Breaston's teams?  I remember SB being injured from time- could this be why?  And, the least desireable reason- have we been giving up so many scores that Norfleet can reach these marks already?

Not sure if we can really know this answer for sure......(I need to get back to drinking)

Anyway, here's hoping Norfleet smashes the records-  by fielding only the 2nd half kick-off every game!

 

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UMxWolverines

August 22nd, 2014 at 6:50 PM ^

Can someone remind me? Did we have a punt returned for a touchdown last year? The only punts returned for a touchdown I can remember are Martavious Odoms in 2008...and before that when Lloyd was coaching. God I miss watching Steve Breaston. Make it happen Jabrill.

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Wolverine Devotee

August 22nd, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^

Every punt return for a TD since the official records began in 1949. 

 
Date Player Yds Opponent

11/18/1950

Harry Allis

23

vs Northwestern

11/25/1950

Anton Momsen

0

at #8 Ohio

10/27/1951

Lowell Perry

75

vs Minnesota

11/6/1954

Dave Raimey

54

vs Illinois

11/13/1954

Tom Hendricks

67

vs Michigan State

11/13/1954

Ron Kramer

26

vs Michigan State

10/8/1955

Terry Barr

82

vs #6 Army

11/2/1957

Jim Pace

65

vs #3 Iowa

10/24/1959

Darrell Harper

83

at Minnesota

11/5/1966

Dick Sygar

64

vs Illinois

11/11/1967

George Hoey

60

at Illinois

9/20/1969

Marty Huff

31

vs Vanderbilt

11/1/1969

Barry Pierson

51

vs Wisconsin

9/18/1971

Dave Elliott

10

vs Virginia

9/30/1972

Gil Chapman

49

vs #18 Tulane

10/7/1972

Dave Brown

83

vs Navy

10/6/1973

Gil Chapman

83

vs Oregon

10/13/1973

Dave Brown

53

at Michigan State

9/21/1974

Dave Brown

88

vs Colorado

9/8/1979

Anthony Carter

78

vs Northwestern

9/18/1982

Anthony Carter

72

at #20 Notre Dame

10/12/1985

Edward Hood

2

at Michigan State

11/16/1985

Gilvanni Johnson

84

at Minnesota

10/20/1990

Dwayne Ware

7

vs #22 Iowa

11/3/1990

Dwayne Ware

17

at Purdue

11/23/1991

Desmond Howard

93

vs #18 Ohio

10/10/1992

Derrick Alexander

80

vs Michigan State

10/17/1992

Derrick Alexander

70

at Indiana

10/16/1993

Derrick Alexander

48

at #7 Penn State

1/1/1994

Derrick Alexander

79

NC State

10/22/1994

Amani Toomer

72

at Illinois

9/2/1995

Anthony Williams

28

at #25 Illinois

10/21/1995

Amani Toomer

56

at Indiana

11/22/1997

Charles Woodson

78

vs #4 Ohio

10/14/2000

Marquise Walker

41

vs Indiana

10/17/2001

Roy Manning

0

at Iowa

11/17/2001

Marlin Jackson

43

at Wisconsin

10/10/2003

Steve Breaston

69

at #17 Minnesota

10/18/2003

Steve Breaston

74

vs Illinois

10/2/2004

Leon Hall

76

at Indiana

11/13/2004

Steve Breaston

67

vs Northwestern

11/11/2006

Steve Breaston

83

at Indiana

11/1/2008

Martavious Odoms

73

at Purdue

10/17/2009

Brandon Graham

2

vs Delaware State

8/31/2013

Joe Reynolds

30

vs Central Michigan
 
Edit: no idea why this table looks like this. I actually had to trim the result column out. I copied this straight from my statistical record book. 

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ShadowStorm33

August 22nd, 2014 at 7:07 PM ^

This isn't right, or at least not in terms of actual punt return TDs. A number of these are punt block return TDs, at very least Reynolds' last year (off Dymonte's block), BG's in 2009, Marquise Walker's in 2000 and Roy Manning's in 2001. Marlin Jackson's may have been, too...

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Wolverine Devotee

August 22nd, 2014 at 7:23 PM ^

Yes. The Roy Manning 0yd PR was a block by Zach Kaufman and Manning recovery. 

That was the Marquise Walker one-handed catch game at Iowa. Michigan was down 10-0 until that punt block TD. Something about Kinnick Stadium and special teams from that time period. 

1998, they hilariously blew any chance at winning by their PR man running into his own endzone and being tackled for a safety that gave Michigan a 12-9 lead (and win). 

2003......ugh....I still remember that game and I was pretty young at the time. Effing special teams that year cost us two games. 

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Wee-Bey Brice

August 22nd, 2014 at 6:53 PM ^

I think it's funny that people continue to freak out over Hoke's hypothetical "if the game was today" starters. The game isn't today. Last week Smith was #1 RB, Peppers/Lewis were starting corners and Godin was a starter. This week none of that is true. Green is back to #1, Countess/Taylor are your starting corners and Willie Henry is a starter again. Anybody else starting to notice a pattern? Just relax.

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