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Kevin Youngblood Fact: Led Clemson in receptions last year with 59 after missing the 2001 season with a broken leg.
Fall 2003 Depth Chart Position: Starting wide receiver
Years Lettered: 2000,02
Bowl Participation: 2000 Gator Bowl against Virginia Tech and the 2002 Tangerine Bowl against Texas Tech.
Overview: Tall possession receiver who looks to have a strong final season...comeback Player-of-the-Year on the Clemson team; he was the team’s top receiver in 2002 after suffering a broken leg in the preseason of 2001...a candidate for the Brandon Streeter Award, which is given by the Clemson Athletic Department in 2002 for overcoming injury to gain success...that is a department-wide award named after the former Clemson quarterback...earned his undergraduate degree in August of 2003, so he will be a graduate student during the 2003 season...ranked as the 19th-best wide receiver in the nation by Lindy’s preseason magazine...preseason first-team All-ACC receiver by Athlon and Lindy’s...has the best hands in the ACC according to Lindy’s...ranked as the most physical receiver in the ACC by The Sporting News...has a 39.5-inch vertical jump, so he can go up in traffic and come down with the ball...a big reason Clemson’s receiving corps is ranked among the top 10 in the nation by Lindy’s, The Sporting News, and Athlon...Clemson’s leader in receptions in 2002 with 59; that was the fourth-most receptions in Clemson history for a single season...became just the eighth different Tiger to eclipse the 50-catch mark for a single season...has a 15-game streak with at least one catch entering 2003, the longest active streak by a Tiger...another outstanding Clemson receiver from Jacksonville; he is from the same high school as Rod Gardner, a Clemson first-round draft pick in 2000 who is now the leading receiver for the Washington Redskins...started five games during Clemson’s 9-3 2000 season when Clemson finished 14th in the final coaches’ poll...has 72 career receptions to rank 19th in Clemson history...needs 184 yards to reach 1,000 for his career...has started 17 of his 25 career games played...red-shirted his first year (1999), then missed the 2001 season with a broken leg...averaged 35 snaps per game in 2002 and 32 plays per game over his career...had a strong Spring Game of 2003; he had five catches for 57 yards to lead all pass catchers in total receptions...like Yusef Kelly, will make his first ever appearances at Georgia Tech, Maryland, N.C. State, Wake Forest, and South Carolina due to the fact he missed the 2001 season.
In 2002: Named Clemson’s offensive MVP for the Tangerine Bowl; he had seven catches for 134 yards...that was just 13 yards away from the Clemson bowl record...the 134 yards were his career high and the most reception yards by a Tiger all season...the total included a 67-yard reception from Charlie Whitehurst, the longest reception of his career...ranked sixth in the ACC in receptions per game and 63rd in the nation...got the season off to a big start with six catches for 66 yards and a touchdown at Georgia...the scoring pass came on a 21-yard pass from Willie Simmons just eight seconds before halftime and cut the Bulldogs’ lead to just one touchdown...followed that performance up with a career-high 10 receptions for 89 yards against Louisiana Tech...became just the seventh player in Clemson history to have double figures in receptions in a single game...had six catches in the win over Wake Forest on Homecoming; he came off the bench to accomplish that...had at least one reception in every game and had at least two catches in 12 of the 13 games...had a standout game at Duke with eight receptions for 61 yards and a score...the touchdown came on a 14-yard pass from Charlie Whitehurst, Clemson’s first drive of the game...finished the regular season with three receptions for 35 yards in the win over rival South Carolina...started 11 of the 13 games; he did not start the Wake Forest game or the bowl game...played at least 17 snaps in every contest and at least 38 snaps in nine of the 13 games.
In 2001: Red-shirted due to a broken leg suffered during preseason practice in August.
In 2000: Had a 17.3-yard average for his 13 catches, similar to Rod Gardner’s 18.1 average...figures he would have something in common with Gardner; Youngblood and Gardner both went to Raines High School in Jacksonville, FL...had two touchdown receptions and five catches of 20 yards or more...had a 49-yard reception on a bomb from Willie Simmons in the Missouri game...Youngblood moved into the starting lineup late in the season; he started five of the 12 contests overall and was a co-starter for the season with Matt Bailey...Youngblood and Simmons also teamed up for scoring passes against Wake Forest (30 yards) and Duke (38 yards)...played at least 40 snaps in each of the last five games, but he only caught five passes in those games...fifth on the team in total catches; he was fourth in yards...developed into one of Clemson’s top special-teams players at the end of the season; he had eight tackles on punt coverage in the last four games, including two plays in which he stopped the punt returner for negative yardage...had two special-teams tackles in the Gator Bowl against Virginia Tech...had one catch for four yards in the Gator Bowl...had two receptions for 42 yards, including a 27-yarder against South Carolina...also had a tackle for loss on punt return coverage in that game...had an outstanding spring for the second year in a row...had 11 catches for 142 yards in the 2001 Spring Game, a Clemson Spring Game record for receptions and the second-most yardage...has a 39-inch vertical jump; it comes in handy when he is looking for deep balls...was the tallest receiver on the Clemson team at 6’5”...from the same high school as former Tigers and current NFL players Brian Dawkins (1992-95) and Patrick Sapp (1992-95), and former All-ACC Tiger receiver Terrance Roulhac (1983-86).
In 1999: Red-shirted as a true freshman...had the top receiving stats of all players in the spring of 2000; he had 18 catches for 289 yards combined in three spring scrimmages.
In High School: Had 18 receptions and seven touchdown catches as a senior at Raines High School in Jacksonville, FL...one of at least six players in his senior class to sign with Division I teams, as Raines High had one of the most talented senior classes in the country during the 1998 season according to SuperPrep...named an honorable mention all-american according to Southeastern Recruiting Alliance...he lettered three times in football...coached by Welton Coffey at Raines High...lettered in track as well...won the state championship in the long jump as a junior with a leap of 23’6”...was the state runner-up in the high jump as a junior with a jump of 6’7”...also anchored the state champion 4x100 (40.86) and 4x400 (3:21) relay teams as a junior to help garner all-state honors...chose Clemson over Alabama, Syracuse, and Virginia...born Kevin G. Youngblood on Nov. 22, 1980...earned his degree in human resource development in August of 2003.
Youngblood 2000 Game-By-Game Stats
Date Opponent Plays Rec Yds Avg TD LG ST 9-2 THE CITADEL 22 2 2 1.0 1 1 9-9 MISSOURI 18 2 75 37.5 49 9-16 WAKE FOREST 17 1 30 30.0 1 30 9-23 at Virginia 0 0 0 ---- --- 9-30 at Duke 20 1 38 38.0 1 38 10-7 N.C. STATE 9 0 0 ---- --- 10-14 MARYLAND 14 1 7 7.0 7 10-21 at North Carolina *42 1 17 17.0 17 10-28 GEORGIA TECH *57 2 10 5.0 8 3 11-4 at Florida State *63 0 0 ---- --- 2 11-18 SOUTH CAROLINA *55 2 42 21.0 27 1 1-1 Virginia Tech *40 1 4 4.0 4 Totals 357 13 225 17.3 2 49 7 * - start
Youngblood 2002 Game-By-Game Stats
Date Opponent Plays Rec Yds Avg TD 8-31 at Georgia *40 6 66 11.0 1 9-7 LOUISIANA TECH *48 10 89 8.9 0 9-14 GEORGIA TECH *35 4 9 2.1 0 9-21 BALL STATE *31 2 14 7.0 0 10-3 at Florida State *26 2 22 11.0 0 10-12 at Virginia *41 5 42 8.1 0 10-19 WAKE FOREST 38 6 43 7.2 0 10-24 N.C. STATE *17 1 23 23.0 0 11-2 at Duke *40 8 61 7.6 1 11-9 at North Carolina *25 2 28 14.0 0 11-16 MARYLAND *24 3 25 8.3 0 11-23 SOUTH CAROLINA *49 3 35 11.6 0 12-23 Texas Tech 47 7 134 19.1 0 Totals 461 59 591 10.0 2 * - start
Youngblood Career Stats
Year GP-S Plays Rec Yds Avg TD LG ST TFL RF 2000 12-5 357 13 225 17.3 2 49 8 2-3 1 2002 13-12 461 59 591 10.0 2 67 0 0-0 0 Totals 25-17 818 72 816 11.3 4 67 8 0-0 1
• Favorite NFL teams: Jacksonville Jaguars and Washington Redksins
• Favorite all-time football players: Rod Gardner and Randy Moss
• Favorite athlete outside football: Jesse Owens
• Favorite hobby: Shopping
• Favorite food: Lasagna
• If I could spend a day with anyone in history it would be: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (he was a leader and set a great example)
• Person who has had the most influence on my career: Akoya Love (my sister)
• My most memorable moment in sports: My first touchdown reception at Clemson
• Current bowl system or change to NCAA playoff?: Bowl system
