Green Bay Packers rookie Randall Cobb (notes) , the team's second-round pick out of Kentucky, is the first NFL player born in the 1990s. That's right — the 5-foot-10, 191-pound 2011 junior was born on August 22, 1990, just a year before the beginning of the career of New Orleans Saints kicker John Kasay (notes) . Kasay was on the wrong side of the Packers 42-34 season-opening win, and Cobb made all the difference in his first regular season NFL game.
The man who amassed 980 kick return yards in his entire collegiate career, went off on this breathtaking 108-yard return touchdown halfway through the third quarter:
The play tied the NFL's distance record for a kick return.
And that wasn't all -- Cobb caught a 32-yard touchdown pass from the white-hot Aaron Rodgers (notes) with just 11 seconds left in the first quarter.
All of that in Cobb's first game? If he's any indication of the class that's coming out of his decade soon, we are in for some kind of football.
The man who amassed 980 kick return yards in his entire collegiate career, went off on this breathtaking 108-yard return touchdown halfway through the third quarter:
The play tied the NFL's distance record for a kick return.
And that wasn't all -- Cobb caught a 32-yard touchdown pass from the white-hot Aaron Rodgers (notes) with just 11 seconds left in the first quarter.
All of that in Cobb's first game? If he's any indication of the class that's coming out of his decade soon, we are in for some kind of football.
