16%

[dagdaj]

16% of the time Wetjen attempted a punt or kick return, he scored a TD.

I don't have a petcentage of how often he returned it for more yards than the nationwide average, and how much more he returned it than the nationwide average....but I'm guessing it's high.

Take the ISU game out of the stats, and Wetjen was returning kicks for TDs well over 20% of the time he elected to attempt a return. One out of every 5 returnable kick went for 6.

That's well beyond significant.

 

[Hawke]

That's a staggering statistic.

 

[SCHawkeye2]

Without Wetjen's heroics, Iowa loses to MSU.
Maybe another game or two.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Here is what I could find for college football:

Punts - Using 2020 data, 27.5% of punts returned with a TD rate of less than 1%.

Kickoffs - Using 2020 data, 32% were returned with a return rate slightly over 1%.

(Return and TD rates were given as a percentage of all kicks.)

 

[Fryowa]

He’s the best to have ever done it in the history of college football, not just better than Tim Dwight. I don’t think people realize the significance of what that kid has done here.