Former Packers WR Desmond Howard
Resuming a series that began last summer, packers.com is taking a look back at some of the team's single-game records and how the individual set the mark. The series continues with Desmond Howard's 167 punt return yards on Dec. 15, 1996.
GREEN BAY – Breaking the Packers' previous single-game record for punt return yards was almost too easy for Desmond Howard.
In mid-December 1996 at the Pontiac Silverdome, he did it in the first half with room to spare.
Howard's dynamic season as the Packers' primary return man had two defining postseason performances – 117 punt return yards, including a 71-yard TD, in the muddy divisional-round victory over the 49ers; and, of course, the 244 total return yards (154 on kickoffs, 90 on punts), including a 99-yard kickoff return TD, to earn MVP honors in Super Bowl XXXI.