Are there any White Wrs/RBs that have never once returned a punt/kick

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Was just talking about this with some DWFs and I couldn't think of any. I have no issue with this other than the fact that it is just another glaring example of how coaches are completely enslaved to caste stereotypes...What do you guys think?
 

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There are plenty of white wr/rb that never ran a punt or kickoff for a TD......

We could all name a few that have.....
Amendola, Welker, Switzer,
 

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There's been a lot of White WRs used as kick returners, in fact a number who were/are used as kick returners but rarely as receivers. Marc Mariani and Alex Erickson come readily to mind but there's been a bunch over the years. In fact, one season about seven or eight years ago, something like 13 different NFL teams were using a White player as either a punt and/or kickoff returner.

Running back is a different story because there have been so few White RBs, even as backups, and they've tended to be of fullback size, ala Peyton Hillis. McCaffrey, Woodhead and Burkhead have been the three smaller sized ones. Woodhead was used at times to return kickoffs, and Burkhead's returned a few punts. I wouldn't want to see McCaffrey returning kicks, period. I'll always remember the Giants using Jason Sehorn as a kickoff returner one preseason when he was at his peak; he promptly had one of his knees wrecked during one of his first returns and was never the same player afterward.
 
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Using Sehorn as a kickoff returner in a preseason game is one of the dumbest coaching decisions ever made. Why risk a pro bowl caliber cornerback?
 

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Was just talking about this with some DWFs and I couldn't think of any. I have no issue with this other than the fact that it is just another glaring example of how coaches are completely enslaved to caste stereotypes...What do you guys think?
Any one game call up that was a special team gunner type probably would have never returned a kick or punt. I think you meant any established starters who have returned kicks or punts. I recall Welker as a punt returner in Miami and doing it for New England in the playoffs.
 
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