Taylor Stubblefield Taylor Evans Stubblefield ( born January 21 , 1982 ) is a former American football wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers and St . Louis Rams of the National Football League ( NFL ) . He left Purdue owning the most receptions in NCAA history . Stubblefield is currently a wide receivers coach at Wake Forest . A three - sport athlete at A . C . Davis High School , Stubblefield committed to the Purdue University to play football for the Boilermakers . In his collegiate debut in 2001 , he had five receptions for 65 yards . He led the team in receptions and was named to the All - Freshman Big Ten team by " Sporting News " . Stubblefield fractured his skull following his red - shirt 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 , 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 his college success , Stubblefield was not selected in 2005 NFL Draft . He signed as an undrafted free agent with the Carolina Panthers , but failed to make the team as a wide receiver or return man . Stubblefield then signed with the Hamilton Tiger - cats of the Canadian Football League . During the 2006 season , he was invited to training camp with the St . Louis Rams , 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 . The following season he took the same position with Eastern Michigan , while also working towards his master ' s degree . For the 2009 and 2010 seasons , he was asked by former Purdue Defense Coordinator Brock Spack 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 as their wide receivers coach . Early years . Stubblefield was born in Yakima , Washington . He graduated from A . C . Davis High School in Yakima , where he was a member of the football , basketball and track and field 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 , located in West Lafayette , Indiana , where he played under head coach Joe Tiller . He played alongside current NFL player Kyle Orton , and consensus All - American kicker - punter Travis Dorsch . As a redshirt freshman he led the Boilermakers with 73 receptions . In the 2001 Sun Bowl against Washington State , 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 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 ' s David Boston in 1998 . The All - American participated in the East - West Shrine All - Star Game , 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 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 receptions leader with 325 in his college career ( until it was broken by Ryan Broyles of the University of Oklahoma on October 15 , 2011 ) . His teammate , John Standeford , had set the Big Ten Conference record with 266 receptions in 2003 . Stubblefield was named to the Sun Bowl ' s 75th anniversary team . Statistics . Source : Professional career . Carolina Panthers . Stubblefield went undrafted by the NFL after his successful college career . He was signed as a free agent by the Carolina Panthers on April 26 , 2005 . Hamilton Tiger - cats . He played during the 2005 season with the Hamilton Tiger - cats in the Canadian Football League . St . Louis Rams . On January 6 , 2006 , Stubblefield was signed to the St . Louis Rams . Return to the Hamilton Tiger - cats . Stubblefield returned to the Tiger - cats on March 6 , 2007 . Coaching career . 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 , an NCAA division II program . Eastern Michigan . After just one season with Central Washington , Stubblefield joined the Eastern Michigan staff to become an assistant coach under head coach , Jeff Genyk . Illinois State . After Genyk was replaced by Ron English , Stubblefield moved on to Illinois State to be an assistant and wide receiver coach . He joined head coach Brock Spack , who was a former defensive coordinator at Purdue . Central Michigan . On February 18 , 2011 , Central Michigan announced the addition of Stubblefield as their wide receivers coach .