Taylor Stubblefield
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Taylor Evans Stubblefield (born January 21, 1982) is a former American football
American football
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 wide receiver
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 for the Carolina Panthers
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 and St. Louis Rams
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 of the National Football League
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. He left Purdue
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Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

 owning the most receptions in NCAA
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 history. Stubblefield is currently a wide receivers coach at Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan...

. A three-sport athlete at A.C. Davis High School
A.C. Davis High School (Washington)
Davis High School is a high school in Yakima, Washington, USA, serving students in grades 9-12. It is part of the Yakima School District and has approximately 2,000 students.-History:...

, Stubblefield committed to the Purdue University
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

 to play football
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 for the Boilermakers
Purdue Boilermakers football
The Purdue Boilermakers football team is the intercollegiate football program of the Purdue University Boilermakers. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision, and the team competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Boilermakers have an all-time record of...

. In his collegiate debut in 2001, he had five receptions for 65 yards. He lead the team in receptions and was named to the All-Freshman Big Ten team by Sporting News. Stubblefield fractured his skull
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 following his redshirt freshman season, but he did not miss a game and was fully recovered by the time the 2002 season came around. During his sophomore season, he finished with 77 receptions for 789 yards, but didn't record a touchdown catch. As a junior in 2003, Stubblefield earned second-team All-Big Ten honors at the conclusion of the season. In the 2001 Sun Bowl
2001 Sun Bowl
The 2001 Wells Fargo Sun Bowl edition to the Sun Bowl featured the Washington State Cougars, and the Purdue Boilermakers.Washington State's Jason David scored the game's first touchdown on a 45 yard interception return for a 7-0 WSU lead. Washington State quarterback Jason Gesser later threw a 46...

, he had nine catches for a Sun Bowl-record 196 yards. During the 2004 season, Stubblefield was a Biletnikoff Award finalist and earned first-team All-Big Ten honors. He finished his college career with an NCAA record of 325 receptions (that was broken in 2011), 3,629 yards and 27 touchdowns.

Despite is college success, Stubblefield was no selected in 2005 NFL Draft
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. He signed as an undrafted free agent
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 with the Carolina Panthers
Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...

, but failed to make the team as a wide receiver or return man. Stubblefield then signed with the Hamilton Tiger-cats
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...

 of the Canadian Football League
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

. During the 2006 season, he was invited to training camp with the St. Louis Rams
St. Louis Rams
The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...

, but once again didn't make the team. He was re-signed by the Tiger-cats, but he never recorded any statistics while he was on the team.

When the 2007 season came around, Stubblefield hung up his cleats and returned to his home state of Washington, where he was named the wide receivers coach for Central Washington University
Central Washington University
Central Washington University, often abbreviated CWU, is a public university in Ellensburg, Washington in the United States.This location was selected by the state legislature as a consolation prize after Ellensburg lost its bid to be state capital...

. The following season he took the same position with Eastern Michigan
Eastern Michigan Eagles football
The Eastern Michigan Eagles are a college football program at Eastern Michigan University. They compete in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the Mid-American Conference...

, while also working towards his master's degree. For the 2009 and 2010 seasons, he was asked by former Purdue Defense Coordinator, Brock Spack
Brock Spack
Brock Spack is the head coach of Illinois State University football. He was appointed to the position in December 2008. Previously, he was the defensive coordinator at Purdue University under Joe Tiller.-References:...

, to take the wide receivers coaching position at Illinois State. For the Redbirds, Stubblefield coached Eyad Salem, who broke the school's single-season receptions record (92 catches) and twice tied the single-game receptions record with back-to-back 14-catch efforts. Salem was an All-MVFC first-team selection. The next year he took a job with Central Michigan
Central Michigan Chippewas football
The Central Michigan Chippewas football team is a college football program in Division I FBS, representing Central Michigan University. They are a top 25 program in terms of all-time winning percentage and top five amongst all teams from non-BCS automatic qualifying conferences...

 as their wide receivers coach.

High school career

Stubblefield graduated from A. C. Davis High School
A.C. Davis High School (Washington)
Davis High School is a high school in Yakima, Washington, USA, serving students in grades 9-12. It is part of the Yakima School District and has approximately 2,000 students.-History:...

 in Yakima, Washington
Yakima, Washington
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, where he was a member of the football, basketball
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 and track and field
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 teams. For football, he set school records with 123 receptions, 1,900 receiving yards and 21 touchdowns. He also had the school record for receiving yards and receiving touchdowns in a single game, which was broken in 2011. He was named First Team All-State. He also led the basketball team to the state tournament three times, earning fifth and eighth place trophies.

College career

Stubblefield attended Purdue University
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

, located in West Lafayette, Indiana
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, where he played under head coach, Joe Tiller
Joe Tiller
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. He played along-side current NFL
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 player, Kyle Orton
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, and consensus All-American kicker/punter, Travis Dorsch
Travis Dorsch
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. As a redshirt freshman he lead the Boilermakers with 73 receptions. In the 2001 Sun Bowl
2001 Sun Bowl
The 2001 Wells Fargo Sun Bowl edition to the Sun Bowl featured the Washington State Cougars, and the Purdue Boilermakers.Washington State's Jason David scored the game's first touchdown on a 45 yard interception return for a 7-0 WSU lead. Washington State quarterback Jason Gesser later threw a 46...

 against Washington State
2001 Washington State Cougars football team
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, he tied a Sun Bowl record of nine receptions, and set a record with 196 receiving yards. He also scored two touchdowns and recorded a bowl record with a 244 all-purpose yards. He helped lead the Boilermakers to a second straight Sun Bowl appearance in 2002. As a junior in 2003, Stubblefield led the Big Ten Conference
Big Ten Conference
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 with 86 receptions. He totaled 835 yards and three touchdowns. He was a Second Team All-Big Ten selection.

Stubblefield was named a First Team All-Big Ten selection his senior year (2004), in which he caught 89 passes with 1,095 yards receiving and scored 16 touchdowns, third most in the nation. He became the first player to lead the conference in receptions two seasons in a row since Ohio State
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's David Boston
David Boston
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 in 1998. The All-American participated in the East-West Shrine All-Star Game
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, where he had seven receptions for 128 yards and scored two touchdowns, while throwing a pass that led to the first touchdown. He became the first consensus All-American receiver for Purdue since Bernie Flowers
Bernie Flowers
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 in 1952 and earned First Team-All Big Ten honors.

With career totals of 3,629 yards and 21 touchdowns, Stubblefield ranked as the all-time NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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 receptions leader with 325 in his college career, (until it was broken by Ryan Broyles
Ryan Broyles
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 of the University of Oklahoma on October 15, 2011). His teammate, John Standeford
John Standeford
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, had set the Big Ten Conference record with 266 receptions in 2003. Stubblefield was named to the Sun Bowl's 75th anniversary team.

Statistics

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    Receiving   Rushing   Kickoff Returns   Punt Returns
Season Team Avg Long Yds TD Yds Avg TD Long Yds Avg TD Long
2001
2001 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 2001 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented the US Purdue University in the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season.-Schedule:-Rivalries:*In the battle for the Old Oaken Bucket, Indiana beat Purdue....

Purdue
Purdue Boilermakers football
The Purdue Boilermakers football team is the intercollegiate football program of the Purdue University Boilermakers. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision, and the team competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Boilermakers have an all-time record of...

7 12 73 910 12.5 2 65 2 -2 0 5 114 22.8 0 28 0 0 -- 0 --
2002
2002 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 2002 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 2002 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Joe Tiller and played its home games at Ross-Ade Stadium...

Purdue
Purdue Boilermakers football
The Purdue Boilermakers football team is the intercollegiate football program of the Purdue University Boilermakers. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision, and the team competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Boilermakers have an all-time record of...

2 10 77 789 10.2 0 24 1 -9 0 0 0 -- 0 - 0 0 -- 0 --
2003
2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 2003 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Joe Tiller and played its home games at Ross-Ade Stadium...

Purdue
Purdue Boilermakers football
The Purdue Boilermakers football team is the intercollegiate football program of the Purdue University Boilermakers. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision, and the team competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Boilermakers have an all-time record of...

7 13 86 835 9.7 3 43 5 24 0 0 0 -- 0 -- 0 0 -- 0 --
2004
2004 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 2004 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 2004 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Joe Tiller and played its home games at Ross-Ade Stadium. Purdue played twelve games in the 2004 season, finishing with a 7-5 record and a loss in the...

Purdue
Purdue Boilermakers football
The Purdue Boilermakers football team is the intercollegiate football program of the Purdue University Boilermakers. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision, and the team competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Boilermakers have an all-time record of...

12 12 89 1,095 12.3 16 97 0 0 0 0 0 -- 0 -- 16 49 3.1 0 16
Totals 28 47 325 3.629 11.2 21 97 8 13 0 5 114 22.8 0 0 16 49 3.1 0 16
  • Numbers in Bold are Purdue school records

Carolina Panthers

Stubblefield went undrafted by the NFL after his successful college career. He was signed as a free agent
Free agent
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 by the Carolina Panthers
Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...

 on April 26, 2005.

Hamilton Tiger-cats

He played during the 2005 season with the Hamilton Tiger-cats
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...

 in the Canadian Football League
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

.

Central Washington

After a brief stint playing at the professional level, Stubblefield returned to his home state of Washington, where he served as a wide receiver coach for the Wildcats at Central Washington University
Central Washington University
Central Washington University, often abbreviated CWU, is a public university in Ellensburg, Washington in the United States.This location was selected by the state legislature as a consolation prize after Ellensburg lost its bid to be state capital...

, an NCAA division II program.

Eastern Michigan

After just one season with Central Washington, Stubblefield joined the Eastern Michigan
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...

 staff to become an assistant coach under head coach, Jeff Genyk
Jeff Genyk
Jeff Genyk is currently the Special Teams Coordinator and Tight End Coach for The University of California. He was also a television analyst for Atlantic Coast Conference College Football for ESPN during the 2009 season and is the former head college football coach at Eastern Michigan...

.

Illinois State

After Genyk was replaced by Ron English
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, Stubblefield moved on to Illinois State to be an assistant and wide receiver coach. He joined head coach, Brock Spack
Brock Spack
Brock Spack is the head coach of Illinois State University football. He was appointed to the position in December 2008. Previously, he was the defensive coordinator at Purdue University under Joe Tiller.-References:...

, who was a former defensive coordinator at Purdue.

Central Michigan

On February 18, 2011, Central Michigan
Central Michigan Chippewas football
The Central Michigan Chippewas football team is a college football program in Division I FBS, representing Central Michigan University. They are a top 25 program in terms of all-time winning percentage and top five amongst all teams from non-BCS automatic qualifying conferences...

announced the addition of Stubblefield as their wide receivers coach.

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