Props to Donahue

[hawkod]

This might seem trivial to some of you, but I feel Ryan Donahue and the rest of the punting team were a great asset this season. I was reminded this especially after watching Penn State and then Texas continually punt the football into the endzone for touchbacks during their bowl games--guess I got spoiled by watching our opponents fair catch punts at the 11 yard line. Hard to find punting stats sometimes other than yardage average but this season Ryan only had 5 punts for touchbacks plus only 23 punts returned for a total of 131 yards. Hope the NFL pays attention to these little things--takes a team player to intentionally take 10-15 yards off a punt (hurting his yards/kick average) to help win the field position battle.

 

[archfiend]

Agreed. Donahue was the unsung hero of the Penn State game.

He had an awful Minnesota game though. Which obviously didn't matter. He could have shanked every punt he had. Minnesota was not scoring on Iowa that day.

 

[tweeterhawk]

This is a great point. Donahue generally did well with his kicks and the coverage backed it up. He was an essential weapon in the battle of field position.