With the return of Devrin, will EB still return kicks?

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If Devrin plays, it will be at that WR/RB role.
 
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I believe we use 2 return men and its bascially just whichever side the ball goes to as to who returns it.
 
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No...because EB didn't make ESPN's "list"

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Devrin has good hands so from that perspective he's never hurt is in the return game, that I can recall. He showed some flashes of speed in his earlier years and I thought he would really turn it up as he got older but it never really happened. At this point I'm happy with EB making the returns. I feel like we have a shot at a TD every time it's in his hands.
 
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I'm aware of that, but he has mad ball skills and I think he would add another dimension to the run game.
 
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Since most Volnation members think DY is the 2nd coming of Darren Sproles I'm sure it will have zero impact on the team. Anyone with a half a brain knows that EB improved the speed and play making of the return game.
 
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KBVol said:
Evan is in the top 5 nationally for avg kickoff return yardage. I'll be shocked if it's anybody else other than him returning kicks.
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Actually no. The biggest criteria is how many KOR's you want to use to qualify. (Christian Holmes averaged 61yds per return in the SEC...for one return) If you consider 10 returns a pretty fair number (Berry had 14) then Evan's national ranking for KOR average would be 9.

Not top 5 but top 10 is very good.
 
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volswillrise12 said:
Since most Volnation members think DY is the 2nd coming of Darren Sproles I'm sure it will have zero impact on the team. Anyone with a half a brain knows that EB improved the speed and play making of the return game.
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Actually I think the biggest difference is Berry is simply bigger and harder to bring down after contact.
 
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volswillrise12 said:
Since most Volnation members think DY is the 2nd coming of Darren Sproles I'm sure it will have zero impact on the team. Anyone with a half a brain knows that EB improved the speed and play making of the return game.
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By "most" you mean 1or 2? :huh:
 
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Devrin young? LOL WHO? 4 year waste of a scholarship Devrin? Get outa here, play your athletes butch. Not a guy who made a career of running out of bounds at the 15.
 
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I'm glad DY has been a kick returner simply for the fact that his hands were good after years of people not being able to catch the ball. That being said, I hope that only Cam and EB return. Not knowing when to take a knee in the endzone has hurt the field position way too much.
 
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Jdh13579 said:
Devrin young? LOL WHO? 4 year waste of a scholarship Devrin? Get outa here, play your athletes butch. Not a guy who made a career of running out of bounds at the 15.
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Seriously? D. Young played his heart out for this team and this is the way you talk about him?

Get a life.
 
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Hey he got a free ride to play in the sec and a degree, he did his job. As far as a football player he should be playing at Carson Newman. Any ut fan with eyes will say he's nowhere near division 1 talent.
 
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hndog609 said:
Actually no. The biggest criteria is how many KOR's you want to use to qualify. (Christian Holmes averaged 61yds per return in the SEC...for one return) If you consider 10 returns a pretty fair number (Berry had 14) then Evan's national ranking for KOR average would be 9.

Not top 5 but top 10 is very good.
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Actually no. CFBStats.com has Evan ranked #7 nationally and #2 in the SEC. I'd say the biggest criteria you want to use is average yards per return. If you want to split hairs and say 14 returns is a disqualifying sample size then have at it. Marcus Murphy was ranked #1 in the SEC with 18 returns. The average # of returns of the top 10 returns nationally according to CFBStats.com was 19.5. The top returner in the country had 22, the second place guy had 13.

If Evan had returned one kick for 61 yards and I or anyone else was saying he was the top returner in the country then you'd be right, it would be ridiculous and invalid. But he had 14 returns for one of the highest return aversges in the SEC and the country.
 
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KBVol said:
Actually no. CFBStats.com has Evan ranked #7 nationally and #2 in the SEC. I'd say the biggest criteria you want to use is average yards per return. If you want to split hairs and say 14 returns is a disqualifying sample size then have at it. Marcus Murphy was ranked #1 in the SEC with 18 returns. The average # of returns of the top 10 returns nationally according to CFBStats.com was 19.5. The top returner in the country had 22, the second place guy had 13.

If Evan had returned one kick for 61 yards and I or anyone else was saying he was the top returner in the country then you'd be right, it would be ridiculous and invalid. But he had 14 returns for one of the highest return aversges in the SEC and the country.
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(I have no idea what the boldened refers to as nothing in my post DQ'd Berry for anything. The only number I used was a 10 return minimum, which of course included Berry. I'll chalk that up to a miscommunication and move on)

Well for starters my post was in response to another poster stating Berry being in the top 5 nationally in KOR return average and what you cite backs up my contention, does it not? And again what you cite is entirely a matter of criteria. If you look at the bottom of the page you reference you'll see the qualifying condition is:

"To qualify, player must have played in 75% of his team's games and have a minimum of 1.2 kickoff returns per game played."

That's actually a lot more arbitrary than the 10 return minimum since someone could be a monster returner and be DQ'd from this list merely by missing too many games from injury. Just to throw it out there why wouldn't Guley's 44.8 average count? He had 4 returns. Korliss Marshall averaged 30.1 YPKR for AR but he's not on your list either. His 9 Returns not enough? Just pointing out how one decides to include/exclude players matters. I thought a 10 return minimum to pretty easy get behind without throwing in % of games played, etc.

And just to be clear Evan has been doing great. The fact he's a Fr only makes it more exciting looking forward.
 
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