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Taylor A Longshot For NFL Draft
Football
Kevin Duffy
Issue date: 4/23/08 Section: Sports
Fastforward three years, and Taylor stands alone in the middle of Bank of America field in Charlotte at the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Wake Forest punter Sam Swenk boots the ball to Taylor, who drops it. The ball rolls backwards, taking unpredictable bounces as Wake Forest defenders near. Taylor has been here before - or at least it seems so. He calmly retrieves the ball, turns around, splits two would-be Demon Deacon tacklers, and darts up the sidelines. Nobody catches him. Taylor has given the Huskies a 7-0 lead and ended his career where it started - with a 68-yard touchdown.
He may not have known it at the moment, but that punt return pushed Taylor into first-place on the Big East's all-time punt return yardage list, surpassing Miami's Santana Moss, who went on to average 11.5 yards per punt return in the NFL despite standing 5-foot-10, 195 pounds.
Maybe Larry Taylor isn't the biggest guy. Maybe he isn't even the fastest. But whatever team he ends up being drafted by in whatever league he ends up playing in should be forewarned that they aren't getting a game-breaking wide receiver or a grind-it-out running back. They're just getting a football player.
Contact Kevin Duffy at Kevin.R.Duffy@UConn.edu.
He may not have known it at the moment, but that punt return pushed Taylor into first-place on the Big East's all-time punt return yardage list, surpassing Miami's Santana Moss, who went on to average 11.5 yards per punt return in the NFL despite standing 5-foot-10, 195 pounds.
Maybe Larry Taylor isn't the biggest guy. Maybe he isn't even the fastest. But whatever team he ends up being drafted by in whatever league he ends up playing in should be forewarned that they aren't getting a game-breaking wide receiver or a grind-it-out running back. They're just getting a football player.
Contact Kevin Duffy at Kevin.R.Duffy@UConn.edu.
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marco
posted 4/24/08 @ 9:45 PM EST
do you think larry taylor will get drafted in the nfl 2008 draft
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