Sentences with phrase «passing yards returning»

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(If you're wondering if it helped, I'll remind you that Brady returned to football, his first professional game in nine months, with a ridiculous game: passing for 400 yards and three touchdowns, leading the Patriots to victory.

In all, 11 of the league's 14 teams returned a vast majority of last year's passing yards, nine returned at least half of their rushing yards (10 if you include Missouri with the return from injury of Henry Josey), and eight returned at least half of their offensive line starts.

His Tigers romped North Carolina to finish 8 - 5 (the same record as Chase Daniel and Blaine Gabbert in their respective first seasons as Missouri's starting quarterback), and his lovely stat line (2,865 passing yards, 21 passing touchdowns, 981 rushing yards, 15 rushing touchdowns) and the returning talent around him suggested that Mizzou might survive just fine on offense in the SEC.

The return of Flowers and some key targets — receivers Marquez Valdes - Scantling, Tyre McCants, and Ryeshene Bronson and tight ends Mitchell Wilcox and Elkanah Dillon combined to catch 77 passes for 1,442 yards and 14 touchdowns last year — should ensure that USF's potential explosiveness is as high as ever.

He caught a 31 yard touchdown pass and returned a kickoff to pay dirt.

LSU had loaded up on big plays — a 100 - yard kickoff return by Leonard Fournette, a 75 - yard pass from Anthony Jennings to John Diarse, an 89 - yard rush by Fournette * — while Notre Dame had ground out long touchdown drives: 15 plays and 66 yards, 11 plays and 75 yards, 10 plays and 59 yards.

Jabrill Peppers today: * 90 + plays * 16 rushing yards, TD * 43 kick return yards * 41 punt return yards * 2 pass breakups

But a Mark Sanchez pass was tipped by Texans defensive end J.J. Watt and intercepted and returned 86 yards by cornerback Brian McKnight.

Hill rips off another nice return, Barrett finds Austin Mack for a 36 - yard gain, and on second - and - 8 from the 14, he threads a nice pass over the middle for a touchdown to Terry McLaurin.

Breaston returned six kickoffs for a bowl - record 221 yards, ran the ball three times for 15 yards and caught three passes for 77 yards and a touchdown.

Freshman wide receiver Christian Kirk has developed as one of the top young playmakers in the country, catching 70 passes for 925 yards and six touchdowns, and returning another two punts for scores as well.

Jet safety Brian Washington stepped in front of a weak Jim Kelly pass with 1:41 left and returned the interception 23 yards for the winning touchdown.

The redshirt sophomore, who announced his return to Oregon next season, finished the game with 133 - yards rushing and 253 passing.

McCaffrey was certainly more versatile — Derrick Henry led the country with 339 rushing attempts this season, but he only caught 10 passes for 97 yards compared to McCaffrey's 41 for 540 this season, to say nothing of punt and kick returns (McCaffrey also passed for 39 yards and a pair of touchdowns).

Ginn struggled as a Cardinal last season, hauling in just 26 passes for 190 yards and recording 277 punt return yards, his lowest total since 2009.

They had touchdown passes of 50 and 37 yards and a punt return TD of 59 yards.

Only two returning wideouts caught more than 10 passes last year — Kamathi Holsey and Jamarl Eiland — and they combined for a dreadful 40 percent catch rate while averaging just 9.8 yards per catch.

In the first meeting with Pittsburg, Rivers rushed for 157 yards and two TDs while also completing a 9 - yard touchdown pass early in the game and a 97 - yard momentum - changing kick return for a score in the third quarter.

Trevon Diggs returns the kickoff 55 yards to the Auburn 39, then Carlton Davis commits pass interference to prevent another bomb to Ridley.

The Lancers return six defensive starters and four on offense, plus junior quarterback Reed Vettel, who made his first varsity start in the state bowl game and passed for 209 yards in the 23 - 20 loss at Citrus Hill - Perris.

Heisman Watch: Louisville QB Lamar Jackson - 21 for 42, 317 pass yards, 64 rush yards, 3 pass TD, 1 INT UCLA QB Josh Rosen - 34 of 56, 463 pass yards, 32 rush yards, 4 pass TDs, 1 rush TD, 2 INT USC QB Sam Darnold - 28 of 49, 397 pass yards, 3 pass TDs, 2 INT Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield - 17 of 27, 331 pass yards, 4 pass TDs Okla St QB Mason Rudolph - 23 of 32, 497 pass yards, 5 pass TDs, 1 INT Penn St RB Saquon Barkley - 10 rushes for 47 yards, 4 catches for 142 yards, 1 REC TD, 37 kick return yards

Laolagi jumped a passing route from his linebacker position and returned the interception 19 yards for a touchdown.

Senior linebacker A.J. Nicholson intercepted BC quarterback Quinton Porter's first ACC pass and returned it 19 yards for a touchdown, then picked off another throw, leading to Weatherford's 20 - yard touchdown pass to wideout Greg Carr.

The Mountaineers returned quarterback Armanti Edwards, who'd passed for 2,000 yards and rushed for 1,000 as a true freshman, and they had senior skill players on both sides of the ball.

Senior Phil Mayhue and sophomore utility man Pollard also return, and while tight end Daniel Montiel does not, sophomore returnees Kedarian Jones and Sean Dykes combined to catch 12 of 20 passes for a decent 122 yards.

The nation's best passing combination — $» FSU's Chris Weinke to Peter Warrick - $» - struck for a 64 - yard score late in the first quarter, and within the next eight minutes, the Seminoles would score on both a blocked punt and a Warrick punt return to take a 28 - 7 lead.

Box Score Hero: Diggs caught four passes for 89 yards, and had the 100 - yard kickoff return to start the game.

In the second quarter defensive end Brad Scioli picked off another Northwestern pass, returning it 46 yards to set up a mini-scoring drive of 17 yards.

Maryland jumped on Virginia quickly, taking a 17 - 0 lead just over 10 minutes into the game on the strength of a kickoff return for a touchdown by Stefon Diggs, and a 20 - yard scoring pass from Hills to Justus Pickett.

The veteran wideout, whose roster spot has long been reserved for his clutch playoff performances, had five receptions (on seven targets) for 57 yards, two receiving touchdowns, a 20 - yard punt return, and a 20 - yard pass, all in just the fourth quarter.

He gained twice as many yards in a single kick return (56) as he did catching passes (three receptions for 27 yards).

Lockett emerged as a fun return threat in 2011 and morphed into one of the game's steadiest receivers, catching 174 passes for 2,613 yards (and counting) in 2013 - 14 and scoring 33 touchdowns (and counting) in his career.

He returns punts and kick - offs, as does Wallace, and has caught 22 passes for 666 yards (30 yards a catch) and seven touchdowns.

Three minutes later Hughes returned a punt 85 yards for another Texas Western touchdown, and late in the third quarter Wallace, standing on the goal line while fending off the New Mexico safety man, pulled in a 41 - yard Stevens pass for the final score of the game and an eventual 21 - 6 victory.

They smoked poor TCU this weekend, 30 - 7, outgaining the Horned Frogs by 169 yards, limiting Casey Pachall to 13 - for - 34 passing and 3.9 yards per attempt (including sacks) in his return to action; and when Pachall wasn't in, the «Horns were limiting Trevone Boykin to 0.3 yards per attempt.

Then, in quick order, Safety Nick Rassas intercepted a pass and ran it back 92 yards for a touchdown, Ken Ivan kicked a 23 - yard field goal and Rassas, on the loose again, returned a punt 72 yards.

He has 236 in the last two weeks; he caught eight of 13 passes for 158 yards in a tighter - than - expected 40 - 27 loss to Clemson, and at the very least, he could give Maryland a pretty incredible 1 -2-3 punch next year if or when Stefon Diggs and Deon Long, both injured for the season, return to full strength.

The 5 - 5, 155 - pound Cotton and 6 - foot, 170 - pound Hampton combined for 90 catches for 1,863 yards and 22 TDs, and junior Marcus Aponte returns after catching 27 passes.

He completed a touchdown pass, and had three kickoff returns of 90 yards or more (scoring on two of them).

He has rushed for 623 yards and nine TDs, caught 15 passes for 360 yards and two scores, and added a pair of punt return TDs.

In the Cougars» 55 - 21 win over Alhambra, Fadelli broke loose for three rushing touchdowns, a 73 - yard screen pass turned score and an 87 - yard kickoff return for a touchdown that got the game started.

Defensive back Jimmy Legree picked off a Zach Mettenberger pass - one of several quick slants that had seen success early for LSU - and returned it 77 yards to set up the Gamecocks for a three - play touchdown drive that ended with a Connor Shaw pass to Ace Sanders on a rollout.

In the AFC West, Seattle scored 23 points in the second quarter to rout the Raiders 33 - 3 as Dave Krieg passed for two touchdowns and cornerback Terry Taylor returned a pass interception 75 yards for another TD.

Oakland Linebacker Willie Hall intercepted a Terry Bradshaw pass that bounced off the outstretched hands of Fuqua, returning it 22 yards to the Steeler one - yard line.

Newcastle returns to its normal, cool style; a fullback dribbles the ball 15 or 20 yards, then slips a short pass to a halfback, who carries a few yards and passes to another halfback, who rips a curving, spinning drive around a defender and spang on the foot of a forward.

Against Florida, the Tigers proved that their offense's diminishing returns had nothing to do with «holding back» or pacing itself; LSU allowed just 237 yards and 14 points against Florida, and they sacked Gator quarterback Jeff Driskel five times in just 17 pass attempts, but the Tigers lost, 14 - 6.

On the third play of the season, Texas» Holton Hill picked off a Tyrrell Pigrome pass and returned it 31 yards for a touchdown to give the Longhorns a 7 - 0 lead on Maryland.

In 1 game, 103 rushing yards on 19 carries Threw 3 TD passes 201 yards on punt returns 171 yards on KO returns And he kicked / punted And he played defense too.

Lipscomb may have been asked to do more than he was ready to do in the passing game, but he averaged 14.9 yards per return and ranked 33rd in punt return efficiency.

My goal was to begin compiling «percentage returning» data for every level of an offense and defense — passing yards / attempts / completions, rushing attempts / yards, receiving targets / receptions / yards, offensive line starts (because that's all we have), and tackles / TFLs / pass breakups at each level of the defense.