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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