Has anyone else ever caught a TD and blocked a punt in the same NFL game? (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

I thought Juwan Johnson’s double (blocked punt and receiving TD) has to be very rare in the modern era so I looked it up.

Taysom did it in 2019! (though his TD “reception” was a shovel pass). I can’t find any other examples of this being done but perhaps there’s a few others.

Bills special teams ace Steve Tasker was a WR on the roster and has 7 blocked punts and 9 TD receptions but I wasn’t able to tell if any were in the same game.

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[IceHot]

It would be hard to say but you might lookup Ed Meador, Ed Sprinkle, Bill Hewitt, Gary Lewis, and Dick Lynch to see if they matched the feat.

All notable punt/kick blockers that played in positions that caught passes on offense.

 

[Rouxble]

Pretty difficult to find. I could find eight instances where a player had their punt blocked that scored a receiving TD in the same game, all from before 1970. Finding stats on the players that blocked the punts is not as easy.

 

[Mac Man]

Taysom was my first guess.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Guido Merkens

worth a shot

 

[IceHot]

It would be hard to say but you might lookup Ed Meador, Ed Sprinkle, Bill Hewitt, Gary Lewis, and Dick Lynch to see if they matched the feat.

All notable punt/kick blockers that played in positions that caught passes on offense.

Its hard to find any details about the old legends of the game but so far I encountered a game where Bill Hewitt one of (the last few players who refused to wear a helmet in the NFL) played in the 1933 opener against the Packers. The Bears found themselves down 7-0 with 5 minutes remaining as their star RB Bronko Nagurski out of the game with an injury. Before the game ended Bill blocked a FG. When the Bears attack was stymied they hand the ball to Bill on an end around he pulled up and threw a 46-yd TD pass. then with 2 minutes left in the game he blocked a point and ran it in for TD ti win the game 14-7.

Punt blocking stats were not kept back then but Bill did catch 23 TD passes and was known for being a fast punt blocker who would time the snaps - so it may be possible he achieved the feat as well.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

I thought Juwan Johnson’s double (blocked punt and receiving TD) has to be very rare in the modern era so I looked it up.

Taysom did it in 2019! (though his TD “reception” was a shovel pass). I can’t find any other examples of this being done but perhaps there’s a few others.

Bills special teams ace Steve Tasker was a WR on the roster and has 7 blocked punts and 9 TD receptions but I wasn’t able to tell if any were in the same game.

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It technically wasn't a blocked punt, it was a deflection. If the ball travels forward after contact, it's a deflection, not a block.

 

[SaintJ]

It technically wasn't a blocked punt, it was a deflection. If the ball travels forward after contact, it's a deflection, not a block.

Mods please move this to the punt-deflection-and-caught-a-TD-pass-in-the-same-game thread.

 

[zeetes]

i have, but i decided football wasn't the sport for me and found information technology is. now i get ints like crazy.

 

[SWJJ]

It would be hard to say but you might lookup Ed Meador, Ed Sprinkle, Bill Hewitt, Gary Lewis, and Dick Lynch to see if they matched the feat.

All notable punt/kick blockers that played in positions that caught passes on offense.

My AI tool says nope:



For a CONTROL question I followed up with this and loved the response:

 

[kansast]

Funny. When I saw the headline for this thread, my first thought was I don’t remember Taysom blocking a punt this game

 

[VPCajun]

My AI tool says nope:



For a CONTROL question I followed up with this and loved the response:

Stoopid AI - can't even look up what Dy-no-MIGHT did yesterday!

 

[kcirdor]

My AI tool says nope:



For a CONTROL question I followed up with this and loved the response:

It used this thread as it's source of information.