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.
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Former St. Louis Rams quarterback Marc Bulger drops back to pass during a 2009 game. Bulger had an eight-year professional career.
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Former St. Louis Rams quarterback Marc Bulger drops back to pass during a 2009 game. Bulger had an eight-year professional career. AP PHOTO
MORGANTOWNÂ â The first two days of the NFL draft are for the blue bloods.
The third day is for the blue collars, like the players of West Virginia.
As this year s draft started, WVU was being predicted to have two players selected â defensive lineman Darius Stills and linebacker Tony Fields II, each a All-Big 12 selection.
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23-20 win. This was the first of three straight Packers walk-off playoff losses.
T. Paige Dalporto/for the Register-Herald Greenbrier East s Piner wins Fulton Walker Award as state s top special teamer
By Tyler Jackson
The Register Herald Dec 15, 2020
Dec 15, 2020
Greenbrier East s Colby Piner runs upfield during a game against Sissonville this season. T. Paige Dalporto/for the Register-Herald
For Colby Piner, 2019 was a tough year.
After earning Class AAA second-team all-state honors as a sophomore in 2018 while helping guide Greenbrier East to the playoffs, he was ruled academically ineligible for his junior season. As a result, he missed out on another playoff campaign as the Spartans hosted their first playoff game since 1998.
That served as motivation.
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