Iowa’s Tory Taylor Co-Big Ten Special Teams Player of Week

Taylor shares honor with a fellow Aussie punter of repute

Sep. 13, 2021 11:50 am, Updated: Sep. 14, 2021 11:08 am

Iowa Hawkeyes punter Tory Taylor (9) touches Nile Kinnick's helmet as players enter the stadium before an Iowa Hawkeyes football game with the Indiana Hoosiers at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

After one of the more-spectacular performances by an Iowa punter in this millennium, Tory Taylor shares this week’s Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week honor with a fellow native of Melbourne, Australia.

Taylor and Rutgers punter Adam Korsak were the co-honorees, and it’s easy to see why neither was chosen above the other.

Korsak, a senior, averaged 52.2 yards for his six punts in Rutgers’ 17-7 win at Syracuse Saturday. He pinned five of those kicks inside the 20 and had four of 50-plus yards. He had a 69-yarder.

Taylor, a sophomore, averaged 51.1 yards for eight punts in the Hawkeyes’ 27-17 triumph at Iowa State with four punts of 50-plus yards. He five punts inside the 20 and four inside the 10.

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