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In gridiron football, a punt is a kick performed by dropping the ball from the hands and then kicking the ball before it hits the ground. The most common use of this tactic is to punt the ball downfield to the opposing team, usually on the final down, with the hope of maximizing the distance the opposing team must advance in order to score. The ...
Deonte Harty's 96-yard punt return proved to be a decisive blow in the Dolphins squandering an AFC East title and shot at hosting in the NFL playoffs.
The Chicago Bears' final regular season game saw one of the NFL's best plays of the season, as a 94-yard punt return was pure trickery against the Green Bay Packers.
He had a 22-yard punt return — IU’s longest gain of the second half — with less than six minutes to go in the game that set up a critical 41-yard field goal from Nicolas Radicic.
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]
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 Bills tied it on the return from Harty, an under-the-radar offseason signing after he had four good seasons primarily as a returner for the New Orleans Saints, and then Allen brought home the win.
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.