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2016 WVU Special Teams Needs to not be a Problem

The West Virginia kicking game should be fine, but can the return game continue to not lose games?

We have come to the fans’ seemingly last thought of many college football positions: Special teams.

Luckily, through most of our recent memory, West Virginia football has enjoyed relative success, if anything, reliability, in kickers. That reliability, however, has been missing on the return side of things.

In 2016, WVU football hopes to be able to use the kick and punt return games as ways to maintain field position while dealing with some transition in the punting game.