The NFL may bechanging the way kickoffs look with rule changes this year, but Devin Hester changed them by being an outright force of nature. Hester twice created over 1,000 yards of return yardage, and twice created over 500 yards of returns on punts. He scored 19 special teams touchdow...
In 2013, Hester compiled a career-high 1,436 kickoff return yards and an additional 256 yards and one touchdown from punt returns. However, it's worthy of note that his 52 kickoff returns were a career-high number and his 18 punt returns were a career low -- arguably the product of an...
Hester is the most productive punt and kickoff returner in NFL history and the Lions' coverage units, beset by injuries and miscues, rank near the bottom of the NFC. "If you just kick it out of bounds, that's kind of showing weakness," said Stefan Logan, who covers and returns kicks....
as is the lot of any player who was good enough to have his name remembered after his sport is finished with him. For Hester's entire career, most of which was spent with the Chicago Bears returning kickoffs and punts, he was an oddity doing something normal in such an ...
As a rookie in 2006, Hester posted five returns for touchdowns. He opened Super Bowl XLI by returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown, becoming the first player in Super Bowl history to do so, but it was a punt return for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter of the Bears' come...
Neither was decision-making on returns, and that's what made all the touchdowns feel so redemptive. The issues that led to the Ravens letting Hester go were actually nothing new to anyone who watched him his whole career, as we were used to a frequent lack of consistent judgment regarding...