Brian Mitchell

[Steve Gossen]

Brian missed the magic # of 5,000 punt return yards by 1 (one) yard. It should't take him long next year to blow by 5,000 and extend it as far as he can.

K

[Turbine]

I like how this writer said this matter of factly.

"McNabb was the first player to speak out -- sort of. Feeling like a stranger because of all of the new faces at minicamp, McNabb called the loss of playmaking linebacker Shawn Barber, future Hall of Fame kick returner Brian Mitchell and others, "tough to swallow." It took McNabb much of the remaining offseason to distance himself from his remarks."

I agree.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?n...id=18170&rfi=6

[Turbine]

In the area of all-time career yardage gained for their respective teams, Brian Mitchell and Jerry Rice stand alone.

University of Louisiana great Brian Mitchell went into 2003 trailing Jerry Rice by 247 yards and left the season on top by 249 yards.

The chart below reflects a week by week look at Brian Mitchell’s run for the top; it includes both Jerry Rice and Brian Mitchell's bye weeks and the gain made on the other those respective weeks.

[kaballa19]

does jerry rice return kicks?

[Turbine]

Originally posted by kaballa19
does jerry rice return kicks?

Not recently, but in Brians last year he returned kickoffs, returned punts, caught the ball, ran the ball out of the backfield, and finished the season under center..

[kaballa19]

So all Jerrys yards are from receptions? That's awesome

[Turbine]

Originally posted by kaballa19
so all jerrys yards are from receptions? Thats awesome

Not quite, but you are right Jerry is incredible.
97% of his yards came from recieving
645 yards came rushing the ball
and he had 6 return yards his rookie year.

Brian is just as incredible, in some ways more so.
 8% came rushing
10% receiving
21% from punt returns
60% kick returns
the other 1% is mixed in with the rest.

[Boomer]

I think that the small percentage of yards that he is credited with came from fumble returns. He would have even more yards if his pass completions were included ---Now that is worthy of Hall of Fame status. Can one come up with his passing yardage and add it in to the stats to compare with Rice????

[Turbine]

Originally posted by bboomer
Can one come up with his passing yardage and add it in to the stats to compare with Rice????

Here are a couple of notables.

In 1992 Brian Mitchell threw a lateral pass to Desmond Howard on a punt return that resulted in a 55-yard touchdown return.

In 2002 Brian threw a 57 yard touchdown pass on a fake punt.

That's 107 yards right there.

[NewsCopy]

Former Redskin Mitchell Looking For Work

Brian Mitchell, the kick returner and running back who has had stints with the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants since leaving the Washington Redskins, is without a team after being released by the Giants following last season. But he apparently isn't ready to retire. He and agent Steve Baker have been in contact with a few teams interested in possibly signing Mitchell later in training camp and hope to have Mitchell, who turns 36 this month, on a roster within a few weeks.

The source of the story

[NewsCopy]

Brian Mitchell, the kick returner and running back who has gained more yards than anyone else in NFL history would like to play one more season. But he isn't on a roster with preseason games underway and he says he will wrap up his 14-year career if he hasn't signed with a team by the time the regular season begins next month.

"If the phone rings early enough, I'll play," Mitchell said over the weekend. "If it's too long, I'm done. If they wait until the season starts, I'll move on and do the things I'm doing."

Mitchell, who turns 36 this week, was released by the New York Giants in February. He said his agent, Steve Baker, has been in contact recently with the Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins and Green Bay Packers. But it's only been talk so far, and Mitchell has begun operating a business out of his Northern Virginia home. He has a staffing company up and running, with plans to expand into other fields. He was at FedEx Field for Saturday night's game between the Washington Redskins and Carolina Panthers, working as a studio analyst for Comcast.

"I plan to see how soon I get a call," Mitchell said. "If I don't get a call soon, I'm going to call it quits. . . . We'll see how it works. The thing is, I thought I'd miss it, and I don't miss it. I get up in the morning, work out, play golf and do some things I want to do. I'm doing some business things that interest me."

He has crafted a remarkable career since being drafted in the fifth round by the Redskins in 1990. He was a quarterback at Southwestern Louisiana who never returned a punt or a kickoff in college, yet he became perhaps the most successful return man in NFL history as well as a reliable pass-catching running back. He is the league's leader with 23,330 combined yards (rushing, receiving and return yards), 213 yards ahead of Oakland Raiders wide receiver Jerry Rice. Mitchell has led the league in that category in four different seasons -- a feat matched only by Cleveland Browns Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the league leader in combined yards in five different seasons between 1958 and '64.

If he never plays another game, Mitchell said, he will be proud of what he has done. But he'd rather not go out on the down note of his 2003 season, in which he averaged a career-low 5.3 yards per punt return and 20.3 yards per kickoff return (his lowest figure since 1991) for a Giants team that lost its final eight games, resulting in the firing of Coach Jim Fassel.

The rest of the story

By Mark Maske
Washington Post

Charlie with Brian Mitchell at the 2003 UL Football banquet

[CAJUNJUDO]

Does anyone know if Brian Mitchell re-signed with the NY Giants or any other NFL team?

On NFL.com, he is listed 3rd on the Giants depth chart.

All of the depth charts were supposed to be updated towards the end of preseason.

Does anyone know for certain?