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During the 1990 season Vaughn was closely watched in the press. [[NCAA]] football rushing averages are calculated on a per game basis. Since Vaughn started the season with two 200-yard efforts, he was atop the rushing charts well into the season. He entered Michigan's seventh game the weekend of [[October 28]][[1990]] as the nations leading rusher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEEDF123DF93BA15753C1A966958260|title= College Football: Midwest; Flowers Nets 208 for Nebraska|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=2007-12-12|date=[[1990-10-28]]}}</ref> Entering the eighth week he was averaging over 144 yards/game and was still second in the nation and first in the Big Ten.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFD61230F937A35752C1A966958260|title= College Football: Southwest/Midwest; Houston Goes to 8-0 A|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=2007-12-12|date=[[1990-11-04]]}}</ref>
During the 1990 season Vaughn was closely watched in the press. [[NCAA]] football rushing averages are calculated on a per game basis. Since Vaughn started the season with two 200-yard efforts, he was atop the rushing charts well into the season. He entered Michigan's seventh game the weekend of [[October 28]][[1990]] as the nations leading rusher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEEDF123DF93BA15753C1A966958260|title= College Football: Midwest; Flowers Nets 208 for Nebraska|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=2007-12-12|date=[[1990-10-28]]}}</ref> Entering the eighth week he was averaging over 144 yards/game and was still second in the nation and first in the Big Ten.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFD61230F937A35752C1A966958260|title= College Football: Southwest/Midwest; Houston Goes to 8-0 A|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=2007-12-12|date=[[1990-11-04]]}}</ref> He tailed off a bit and entered Michigan's bowl game as #11 in the nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DD1131F932A05751C1A966958260|title= A Long Day's Wait for No. 1|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=2007-12-12|date=[[1990-12-31]]}}</ref>


==Professional Football==
==Professional Football==

Revision as of 02:54, 12 December 2007

Jon Vaughn
No. 24
Position:Running back
Kickoff return specialist
Career information
College:Michigan
NFL draft:1991 / round: 5 / pick: 112
Career history
Career highlights and awards
  • 1992 NFL Kickoff return average leader (min 1 return/game avg.)
  • 1990 Big Ten Offensive Football Player of the Year
  • Michigan Wolverines Career Yard/Carry Recordholder (min 200 attempts)
  • Missouri State High School recordholder 100 metres (1988-2007)
Player stats at PFR
This article is about the former University of Michigan and NFL American football running back. For the former Auburn University American football placekicker, see John Vaughn.

Jonathan Stewart Vaughn ( (1970-03-12) March 12, 1970 (age 54) in Template:City-state) is a former professional American football player who played running back and served as a kickoff return specialist in the National Football League (NFL) for 4 seasons from 1991 to 1994 for the Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, and Kansas City Chiefs. In his most productive season, he led the 1992 Patriots in rushing and led the NFL in kickoff returns with a 28.2 yards/return average on twenty returns.[1] Vaughn measured 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) and [undue weight? – discuss] during his NFL playing days.[2]

Prior to declaring himself eligible for the NFL Draft despite remaining eligibility, Vaughn had starred in the Big Ten Conference for the University of Michigan Wolverines earning Co-Big Ten Offensive Football Player of the year honors during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. Vaughn had established new University of Michigan standards in 200-yard games and yards/carry. He had also previously been a record setting Missouri high school sprinter who for nearly two decades held both the Missouri 100 metre and 200 metre records.

Background

Vaughn was both born and raised in Florissant and attended Florissant McCluer North High School. Vaughn's 1988 Missouri State High School 200 meter dash record stood until 2003.[3] His State meet 100 metres time of 10.44 seconds stood until 2007 as the Missouri High School record.[4][5] Note that Terry Scott who is the track coach at Raytown South High School ran a 10.3 seconds, but the time was clocked by hand and the handheld adjustment is .24 seconds.[5][3]

College

He had a short collegiate career for the University of Michigan Wolverines. He accumulated statistics in only sixteen NCAA games for the Big Ten Wolverines over the course of two seasons.[6] However, in his redshirt sophomore 1990 season he was selected Co-Big Ten Offensive Football Player of the year (along with University of Iowa Hawkeyes players Nick Bell and Matt Rodgers) by the conference's coaches when he started 11 of 12 games.[7] Vaughn, who wore #25 for the Michigan Wolverines football program in 1989 and 1990, played running back after redshirting as a defensive back who wore #46 in 1988.[8]

Vaughn has claims to several important distinctions in University of Michigan Football history. First, he continues to hold the University of Michigan career yards/attempt record (minimum 200 attempts).[9] Second, he opened the 1990 season by posting 201 rushing yards on September 15 1990 against University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish and following it up with 288 rushing yards against the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins on September 22 1990 at the Big House.[10][11] This feat made him the first Michigan back to rush for 200 yards in consecutive games, a feat not duplicated until Mike Hart did so in 2004.[12] His third claim is that the 288 yard effort ranks third on the All-time Michigan single game rushing yards list (behind Ron Johnson's 347 yards in 1968 against the Wisconsin Badgers and Tshimanga Biakabutuka's 313 yards against the Ohio State Buckeyes in 1995).[9] In addition to these claims, his 1416 yards rushing that season still ranks 13th on the Michigan All-time single season rushing list.[6] During that redshirt sophomore season he paired with freshman Ricky Powers who set the Michigan freshman rushing record later broken by Hart and who tied with Vaughn for a team high 5 100-yard rushing games although accumulating far fewer total yards than Vaughn.[6][13]

During the 1990 season Vaughn was closely watched in the press. NCAA football rushing averages are calculated on a per game basis. Since Vaughn started the season with two 200-yard efforts, he was atop the rushing charts well into the season. He entered Michigan's seventh game the weekend of October 281990 as the nations leading rusher.[14] Entering the eighth week he was averaging over 144 yards/game and was still second in the nation and first in the Big Ten.[15] He tailed off a bit and entered Michigan's bowl game as #11 in the nation.[16]

Professional Football

He entered the 1991 National Football League Draft after his redshirt sophomore season,[17] which began with him as the nations leading rusher through the end of October.[18] The season trailed off as Powers got much of the late season workload with four consecutive 100-yard efforts in Michigan wins.[13] Vaughn was one of a relatively small class of underclassmen, headlined by Ragib "Rocket" Ismail to be approved in the NFL's second class of players allowed to declare themselves eligible for the draft despite remaining amateur eligibility.[19] In addition to Vaughn, other headliners among the underclassmen were Herman Moore, Todd Marinovich and Rob Carpenter (who also played for the 1991 Patriots).[19][20] John Vaughn was drafted with the first pick of the fifth round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots.[21] Coach Dick MacPherson used him sparingly from scrimmage in his rookie year as Leonard Russell was the featured back for the 1991 Patriots.[20] However, he had 34 kickoff returns, including one touchdown for an average of 21.1 yards.[22] Although his totals were modest in New England, he led the team in rushing yards in 1992 with 451 yards on 113 carries.[23] In addition, he had 20 kickoff returns for an average of 28.2 yards, including another return touchdown.[22]

After two seasons in New England, he was traded to the Seattle Seahawks for an undisclosed draft pick.[24] During the 1993 NFL season, his workload was modest in the backfield with Chris Warren and John L. Williams,[25] but when he got the chance to play for the 1993 Seahawks he rose to the occasion with a career best 131 yards on 26 carries.[26]

Vaughn spent most of the 1994 NFL season with the Seahawks, but in December he was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs.[27] In 1994 he did not accumulate statistics from the line of scrimmage either for the Seahawks or for the Chiefs, however he returned kickoffs for both teams and recorded a kick return touchdown for each,[22] including a 91-yard runback against the Miami Dolphins for the Chiefs in 1994.[28]

Over the course of his NFL career he ran back a total of 4 kickoffs for touchdowns.[22] In 1991, Vaughn averaged 21.1 yards/return on 34 returns, which ranked 12th among those with 16 returns.[29] In 1992, Vaughn posted a 28.2 averaged on 20 returns to lead the National Football League (Deion Sanders was second at 26.7).[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Statistics All NFL Kick Returns 1992 Regular Season". NFL Enterprises LLC. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
  2. ^ "Jon Vaughn". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
  3. ^ a b Spier, Jim (2003). "Missouri State Meet". DyeStat. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  4. ^ "1980-2006 Missouri State Track Meet Top 50 per Classification". mtccca.org. 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2007-11-20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ a b Althaus, Bill (2007-06-09). "Mitchell's records confirmed heading into AAU state finals". The Examiner. Retrieved 2007-11-20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b c "M Go Blue - University of Michigan Athletics Official Site". Regents of the University of Michigan. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  7. ^ "1990 Football Team". The Regents of the University of Michigan. 2007-03-31. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
  8. ^ "Bentley Historical Library -- -- U of M Football Rosters". The Regents of the University of Michigan. 2003-08-25. Retrieved 2007-11-04. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ a b "Michigan Football Statistic Archive Query Page". Regents of the University of Michigan. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
  10. ^ "Versus Notre Dame September 15, 1990". M Go Blue - University of Michigan Athletics Official Site. Regents of the University of Michigan. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
  11. ^ "Versus UCLA September 22, 1990". M Go Blue - University of Michigan Athletics Official Site. Regents of the University of Michigan. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
  12. ^ Bremmer, Daniel (2004-10-26). "Daniel Bremmer: Hart playing like a Heisman candidate". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
  13. ^ a b Spath, Michael (2007-07-12). "Top 5 freshman impacts of the last 20 years". STATS LLC. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
  14. ^ "College Football: Midwest; Flowers Nets 208 for Nebraska". The New York Times Company. 1990-10-28. Retrieved 2007-12-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ "College Football: Southwest/Midwest; Houston Goes to 8-0 A". The New York Times Company. 1990-11-04. Retrieved 2007-12-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ "A Long Day's Wait for No. 1". The New York Times Company. 1990-12-31. Retrieved 2007-12-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ "SPORTS PEOPLE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Vaughn to Enter N.F.L." The New York Times Company. 1991-01-18. Retrieved 2007-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ "College Football: Midwest; Flowers Nets 208 for Nebraska". The New York Times Company. 1990-10-28. Retrieved 2007-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ a b Eskenazi, Gerald (1991-02-05). "N.F.L. Has 29 Players Listed for Early Draft". The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2007-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ a b "1991 New England Patriots". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
  21. ^ "1991 NFL Player Draft". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
  22. ^ a b c d "All-Time Players: Jon Vaughn". NFL Enterprises LLC. 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
  23. ^ "1992 New England Patriots". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
  24. ^ "N.F.L. TRAINING CAMP REPORT". The New York Times Company. 1993-08-27. Retrieved 2007-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  25. ^ "1993 Seattle Seahawks". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
  26. ^ "PRO FOOTBALL; Hear the Cold Wind Blow: Pack Is Back in Playoffs". The New York Times Company. 1993-12-27. Retrieved 2007-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  27. ^ "Transactions". The New York Times Company. 1994-12-01. Retrieved 2007-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  28. ^ Nobles, Charles (1994-12-13). "PRO FOOTBALL; Shula and Dolphins on Wheels All Night". The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2007-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  29. ^ "Statistics All NFL Kick Returns 1991 Regular Season". NFL Enterprises LLC. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
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