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One of the SEC’s historic lightweights was in the Playoff race until November, and that wouldn’t have been the case without Bowden.

#Eddie gran to lsu plus

His powerhouse game at Mizzou - 13 catches for 166 yards plus a 67-yard punt TD - led Kentucky to a 15-14 win and 7-1 record. He showed glimpses that exceeded even his four-star recruit rating, like this feisty catch-and-run:Īs a sophomore, he was UK’s leading receiver and retained his flare on special teams, returning a couple punts for touchdowns. He threw a few passes as a wildcat-position QB: three-of-four for 92 yards.

He caught 17 passes for 210 yards, impressive on a roster where the leading receiver, a senior, had 539. He was All-SEC Freshman as a returner, setting Kentucky’s record for kick return yards (869). Whatever we needed to do to win, he would play.” What Kentucky needed was to play Bowden all over the formation. At a bowl practice before his last game, Bowden played some secondary - “messing around,” Gran said - and impressed. “We could’ve put him at DB, and he probably would’ve been a star DB,” one of his offensive coordinators, Eddie Gran, told me. He didn’t play defense in college, but not because he couldn’t. Every specialty camp for middle school quarterbacks, defensive backs, and long snappers is evidence of football’s shift toward asking players to have one great trick.Īt Kentucky, Bowden played receiver, special teams, quarterback, and de facto running back. Sammy Baugh played quarterback, running back, DB, and punter.Įventually, college football implemented a two-platoon system.

Jim Thorpe played everywhere from halfback to defensive back to kicker. The one-platoon system meant teams didn’t have separate offenses and defenses. Until the 1940s (and for another spell until the 1960s), the best players did almost everything. For generations now, football’s rarely seen multi-position versatility like Bowden’s. This 109-yard romp turned out to be instructive about the eventual college star, not just because of his near-inexplicable way of avoiding tacklers, but because he was serving as his team’s punter. * At this time, I will not be accepting feedback about the caliber of tacklers in that video. “I was scared to take a safety,” Bowden told me in 2020. (via | /RXRSHiFTxX- Bleacher Report November 22, 2019 This one’s going in the ridiculous touchdown Hall of Fame