Fans want to enjoy great quarterback play and dominant defenses get to work. A star kick returner changes all of that. Everyone pays attention to kickoffs when the returner has the ability to take ...

Crowder returned a career-high 35 punts for Washington in 2023, the third most in the NFL last season. However, he was not in the top ten in punt return yards, and his 7.9 yards per return was ...

With the NFL kickoff rule undergoing a major change this year, it sounds like Samuel would like the 49ers to give him a shot at another position: Kick returner. "I wouldn't mind doing it from ...

Playing on the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field would be second nature. Horton, a premier playmaker at receiver and returner, was in Green Bay on Wednesday for a predraft visit with the Packers ...

Nixon received seven second-team All-Pro votes this season at kick returner (and one at cornerback). But he only returned 18 kicks in the 2024 regular season after returning 30 last season and 35 ...

Everyone watching on television could see it, and yet the NFL's replay center couldn't at the time: Seattle Seahawks returner Dee Williams definitely had a punt touch his finger, which meant it ...

The ball will be considered in play if the returner catches it or if the ball hits the ground in the landing zone or if the ball gets to the end zone. Coverage team will be lined up together.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – To start, Marvin Mims Jr. was counted on mostly as a returner. Then, some receiver reps were thrown in. Now, he’s also spending time in the Denver Broncos' backfield.

MINNEAPOLIS — Despite general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah last week naming Myles Gaskin as the Minnesota Vikings' kick returner, special teams coordinator Matt Daniels said Tuesday that isn't the ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Detroit Lions took some shots in the third quarter, with multiple offensive players missing time with injuries. Kalif Raymond has been ruled out with a foot injury. The ...

His special-teams role became larger when he took over as Iowa’s punt returner after Cooper DeJean went down with an injury. That set the stage for this season when, with the departure of DeJean ...