Jon Vaughn

His 1,364 yards rushing that season ranks 13th on the Michigan all-time single season rushing list.

During that redshirt sophomore season, he played with freshman Ricky Powers, who set the Michigan freshman rushing record later broken by Hart and who tied with Vaughn for a team-high five 100-yard rushing games, although accumulating far fewer total yards than Vaughn.

The 288-yard effort ranks third on the All-time Michigan single-game rushing yards list (behind Ron Johnson's 347 yards in 1968 against the Wisconsin Badgers and Tshimanga Biakabutuka's 313 yards against the Ohio State Buckeyes in 1995).

Jonathan Stewart Vaughn (born March 12, 1970) is an American former professional football player who was a running back and kick returner in the National Football League (NFL) for four seasons from 1991 to 1994 for the Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, and Kansas City Chiefs.

His 1988 Missouri State High School 200 meter dash record time of 21.28 seconds stood until 2002.

Vaughn, who wore #25 for the Michigan Wolverines football program in 1989 and 1990, played running back after redshirting as a defensive back who wore #46 in 1988.

In 1989, Desmond Howard and Tony Boles shared the role.

Before declaring himself eligible for the NFL Draft despite remaining eligibility, Vaughn had starred in the Big Ten Conference for the Michigan Wolverines earning Co-Big Ten Offensive Football Player of the year honors for the 1990 Big Ten Champions during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Vaughn had set University of Michigan records for 200-yard games and yards per carry.

As a high school sprinter, he set the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) 100 meter and 200 meter records that stood for more than a decade.

Born and raised in Florissant, Missouri, Vaughn attended McCluer North High School there.

However, in his redshirt sophomore 1990 season, he was selected Co-Big Ten Offensive Football Player of the year (along with University of Iowa Hawkeyes players Nick Bell and Matt Rodgers) by the conference's coaches when he started 11 of 12 games.

He opened the 1990 season by posting 201 rushing yards on September 15, 1990, against University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, then 288 rushing yards against the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins on September 22, 1990, at the Big House.

During the 1990 season, Vaughn was closely watched in the press.

He entered Michigan's seventh game—the weekend of October 28, 1990—as the nation's leading rusher.

Entering the eighth week, he was averaging over 144 yards per game and was second in the nation and first in the Big Ten.

He only gained a total of 94 yards in his ninth, tenth and eleventh games combined and entered Michigan's bowl game as #11 in the nation.

He ran for 128 yards in his final game and ended the season as the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year.

He also ended the season eleventh in the nation in rushing and second in the Big Ten with 112.4 yards per game.

Despite his eventual professional success as a kickoff returner, he never returned kickoffs in college.

In 1990, Desmond Howard and Derrick Alexander shared the kick-return duties.

Vaughn entered the 1991 National Football League Draft after his redshirt sophomore season.

The season trailed off as Powers got much of the late-season workload with four consecutive 100-yard efforts in Michigan wins.

Vaughn was one of a relatively small class of underclassmen, headlined by Ragib "Rocket" Ismail, to be approved in the NFL's second class of players allowed to declare themselves eligible for the draft despite remaining amateur eligibility.

In addition to Vaughn, other headliners among the underclassmen were Herman Moore, Todd Marinovich, and Rob Carpenter (who also played for the 1991 Patriots).

Vaughn was drafted with the first pick of the fifth round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots.

Coach Dick MacPherson used him sparingly from scrimmage in his rookie year as Leonard Russell was the featured back for the 1991 Patriots.

However, he had 34 kickoff returns, including one touchdown, for an average of 21.1 yards in 1991, 10th among those with 1.2 returns per game.

He also completed a 13-yard touchdown pass to Marv Cook against the Houston Oilers on September 22, 1991, the Patriots' only non-quarterback touchdown pass until Dave Meggett repeated the feat during the 1997 NFL season.

In his most productive season, he led the 1992 Patriots in rushing and led the NFL in kickoff returns with a 28.2 yards per return average on twenty returns.

Vaughn was the tenth NFL player to accumulate four kickoff-return touchdowns and the second to accumulate kickoff return touchdowns for three teams.

Vaughn stood 5ft 9in and weighed 203 lb during his NFL playing days.

In 1992, Vaughn led the team in rushing yards with 451 yards on 113 carries.

He had 20 kickoff returns for an average of 28.2 yards, including another return touchdown.

This feat made him the first Michigan back to rush for 200 yards in consecutive games, a feat not duplicated until Mike Hart did so in 2004.

His state meet time of 10.44 seconds in the 100 metre event stood until 2007 as the Missouri High School record.

During his two years playing for the University of Michigan Wolverines, he played for back-to-back Big Ten Conference Champions.

He accumulated rushing statistics in only 16 NCAA games for the Wolverines over the course of two seasons.

As of 2007, Vaughn holds the University of Michigan career yards per attempt record (minimum 200 attempts).

In 2020, Vaughn would join at least 70 other plaintiffs in lawsuits against the University of Michigan charging the school with allowing team doctor Robert Anderson to sexually abuse students for decades.