Taylor Stubblefield coached the Chippewas' wide receivers for the 2011 season.

Stubblefield mentored a group that included one of the top freshman receiving tandems in the country in Titus Davis and Courtney Williams. Davis earned All-MAC third team accolades Freshman All-America honors from Phil Steele's Magazine after catching 40 passes for 751 yards and eight touchdowns; his eight touchdown catches were a CMU freshman record and tied for the sixth most in a season in CMU history. Both Davis and Williams scored touchdowns on their first career receptions, and they were the only freshman teammates in the country with at least five touchdown catches apiece.

Stubblefield also worked with Cody Wilson, who was an All-MAC third team selection after leading the Chippewas with 48 receptions in 2011.

Stubblefield came to CMU from Illinois State, where he coached the Redbirds' receivers for two seasons. Stubblefield worked directly with three All-Missouri Valley Football Conference honorees and two All-MVFC All-Newcomer selections during his two seasons at Illinois State.

In 2009, Stubblefield coached Eyad Salem during a season in which he 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.

Stubblefield began his coaching career as the receivers coach at Central Washington in 2007. He was a graduate assistant working with the receivers at Eastern Michigan in 2008.

As a player at Purdue, Stubblefield was a consensus All-American and a 2004 finalist for the Biletnikoff Award. He finished his career (2000-04) with an NCAA record 325 receptions and ranks second in Big Ten history with 3,629 receiving yards. (His NCAA-recognized total is 316 since it did not count bowl game statistics until 2002, and he had nine catches against Washington State in the 2001 Sun Bowl.) Stubblefield's performance against Washington State in the 2001 Sun Bowl (nine receptions, Sun Bowl-record 196 yards, two touchdowns, Sun Bowl-record 244 all-purpose yards) earned him a spot on the Sun Bowl's 75th anniversary team. His 16 receiving touchdowns in 2004 are a Purdue single-season record.

After graduating from Purdue in 2005, Stubblefield had professional stints with the NFL's Carolina Panthers and St. Louis Rams as well as the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

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