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After getting a chance to digest the season and go back and review some games, Hoosier Huddle is doing a full post-season evaluation of the Indiana Football program. Today, we look at the special teams and how the group performed in 2022.
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It’s award season for the Big Ten football as the regular season and Indiana’s freshman running back Jaylin Lucas is taking home some hardware. Lucas is the first freshman and first Hoosier to earn the Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year Award in its history.
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It is Transfer Portal Season and there will be names pouring in and out since the regular season has ended. Indiana kicker Charles Campbell announced he entered his name into the portal on Monday. Campbell will have one year of eligibility left.
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For teams like Indiana who are trying to spring upsets or get back on track special teams plays a vital role. Just ask Scott Frost at Nebraska who onsides kicked his way onto a seat hotter than the sun in Week 0.
Last season, IU was either great or terrible in the special teams department. Placekicker Charles Campbell was one of the best kickers in the Big Ten early on but, like the rest of the team, tanked in the second half. IU had little-to-no return game after D.J. Matthews and Reese Taylor got injured and Punter James Evans was very inconsistent.
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Phil Steele’s annual college football preview magazine came out earlier this month. It’s a magazine regularly referred to as ‘the Bible’ of college football and has a section ranking the top draft eligible players at each position. Here are where some of the draft eligible football players rank in their position groups:
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The Hoosier Huddle countdown to kickoff is underway! Over the next 100 days, we at Hoosier Huddle will feature every player from the 2022 roster in anticipation of Indiana’s first game of the season against Illinois in Bloomington. Today, we will highlight star kicker for the Hoosiers, Charles Campbell.
Charles Campbell (Redshirt Senior)
Hometown: Jackson, Tennessee
Height: 5’9”
Weight: 170 Pounds
Position: Kicker
Twitter: (@ChuckCampbell3) Instagram: (@charles_campbell3)
Indiana football had a disappointing 2021 season, and unfortunately that carried over to the leg of Charles Campbell. After nailing 10-of-11 field goal attempts and all 25 extra points in 2020, Campbell came into the season with extremely high expectations. He was still solid – nailing 13-of-18 field goal attempts and all 20 extra points – but he left some desired for his final season. Campbell will enter 2022 having made 25-of-31 (80.6 percent) of his field goal attempts and all 46 of his extra points. He sits 10th on the program’s career field goals list. Campbell is 4-of-5 from 50-plus yards and his four 50-yarders are second only to Pete Stoyanovich's six from 1985-88 in Hoosier lore.
"Charles did not have the year he expected to have, none of us expected to have," special teams coach Kasey Teegardin said earlier this spring. "He has to be more consistent, for sure, in the way that he approaches things and prepares for when his opportunity is called. We put him in some tough kicks last year, but he had the 55-yarder at Maryland. We feel like he can handle those situations. We're excited about his leg power."
On top of place kicking duties, Campbell will compete with Chris Freeman for kickoff responsibilities after the graduation and departure of Jared Smolar. Expect that competition to continue into the fall, but Campbell has a strong hold on the starting place kicking spot.
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The Indiana Hoosiers had an interesting year on special teams. When they were on their game, this unit was one of the best in the conference. However, when it did not go their way, the wheels fell off.
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The final installment of the Hoosier Huddle preseason position previews are the special teams. IU brings back most of their starters on these units and add impact players in the positions they lost their starters from 2020. Punter Haydon Whitehead and returner Whop Philyor left to chase their NFL dreams, but the replacements have the talent to fill the gaps. The Hoosiers were excellent in nearly ever phase of special teams, including their “Crimson Watch” punt coverage team. Anyways let’s start with who the Hoosiers have coming back at kicker.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana redshirt junior kicker Charles Campbell is one of 30 players on the Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award Watch List, the Palm Beach County Sports Commission announced on Wednesday morning.
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The 2021 Countdown to Kickoff continues! There are still 93 days left until the Indiana Hoosiers begin their 2021 season with a clash in Iowa City against the Iowa Hawkeyes but this countdown will hopefully help us all pass the long summer. Today’s profile piece is on Charles Campbell, a sophomore kicker who had a huge 2020 season in route to second team All-Big Ten honors.
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