Punter Tori Taylor remains a job during the bear

Chicago, IL – 08. September: Eric Wilson # 55 Minnesota Vikings Blocks Tori Taylor # 19 Chicago Medveda Tunt During the second half. September 2025. years in Solider field in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo Melissa Tamez / Icon SportsVire via Getty Images)

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Tori Taylor is made to be a weapon for the bearing of the bear, but so far there was only another NFL punter. This is not so typed as a statement about the skills of the best pets.

Chicago chose the former recorder of the university in Iowa in the fourth round of the draft 2024, with a total of 122 years. Only four other patterns were chosen in the first four rounds since 2010. years.

Taylor is often described as a “generational punter” in his four seasons in Iowa. Bears GM Ryan Poles who entered their second season.

“Really excited about Tory,” Poles said during the training camp. “(He is) one of the best pets I have ever seen, in terms of his placement, as well as legs of legs so that he can switch the field.”

However, external analysts were not necessarily as it was sold. Pro Football Focus ranked Taylor as NFL 21. Best bursts in his Rookie Seasons.

Inconsistent congested time and tendency to get its coverage limited its influence through the first 18 games of his NFL career.

Taylor set up the NCAA record with 4479 total courtyards in 2023. years, average 48.2 yards per Punt. It was 15.7 yards for Chicago in her Rookie Seasons, but it ranked only 15. Place. Detroit Jack Fox led the league with 51.0 yard per Punt.

Taylor net yards are 41.6 on average, which ranked the 20th place. Opponents compiled 422 returned courtyards with Chicago Punts, the third most in the league in weighted yield. He was 19. in the stubs of teams in a line of 20 yards.

Kaleb Williams once sent that Taylor would have a lot of smelling time, but it was hard to prove the case. He had more than one shot as a rookie than Williams did the courtyards, as his 82 total punts ranked to another Cleveland Corey Bojorkuez.

Taylor had his moments. Name NFL’s special teams in the week after the game 2 win over the Rams last season, becoming the first Chicago Punter to win in 2007. years won the weekly award from the MayAnard’s beard.

Taylor’s Putts produced 23 fair catches last season, which ranked sixth in the league. He forced opponents to start drives in 20 times, heel in heel in the league.

Taylor, gender in Melbourne, Australia, has developed a full bag of tricks on the way to the NFL. She varied his technique on Iowa, using one step, two steps and rugby style.

In addition to the height and placement of a punishment, he defeated various different spins to cause PUNT returnees. But while his skills are obvious, they have not been translated into the type of advantage that is intended when bears are a priority to adding suggestions that are in front of Bucky Irving and others still on the board in the general thin draft class.

Taylor was called for six chargers in the loss in opening the minesota season on Monday night. The best of them left Vikinga starting from their 19 yard in the first quarter, but one almost turned into an accident when the Eric Wilson turned it.

The one was just 25 meters, which reduced the average Taylor to 44.3 yards. The alarming part of Minnesota’s price of Milenest returned four from the channels, covering away from 9, 20, 17 and 22 meters.

Wilson broke through the left side of the line to handle the last Taylor’s sixth Taylor. It was not a real block, but allowed Vikings to start driving on their 32, not within 20. They capitalized with nine-play-play, 68-yard drive, taking leadership.

PFF taylor gave a grade of 62.2, which is 11. place in a week. They will get a chance to improve on it in Sunday conditions on Sunday, when bears play on Ford Polje, Detroit’s closed stadium.

Logan Fox and Jacksonville Cole were the first and second team of all-Pro Puntes last season. Cole and Dallas’ Brian Anger deserved that recognition of 2023. years.

Taylor, blessed with an unusual amount of job security specialist, eventually can reach that height. But as almost everyone else in Halas Hall, his play is leaving space for improvement to this day.

As the 2025 season is officially becoming a focus for Taylora, it has a high task to live until his season of 2024. Years. The good news is that chief coach Ben Johnson He decided to retain the coordinator of the Richard Hightot special team coordinator so that there is continuity for Taylor in the context of momentum of momentum to develop into one of the best players in the game.

While the field was filled, two other numbers tell the right story about how good Taylor really was last season. 41.5%, exactly 34 of its 82 kant, was precipitated in a line of 20 opponents’ courtyards, with the longest punt is 68 meters last season.

Production shows that the player who has really finished is a massive manufacturer’s difference in the season that has never had significant bright moments.

Against NFC opponents, a total of six games, Taylor also had only one touch. Although this number that should not be held against him, the bears eventually lost in close games, so it is fair to wonder if at least one or two touches matches per game could change the momentum for the whole team.

While moving in its second season, focusing more on getting touches, especially against NFC teams, could end up to see some growth and goes from the fourth round to turn into one of the best punters in the league.

Working on a variety of techniques to cause PUNT returnees