Career:  Ranks first in Wolfpack history in career kickoff return average with a 28.63 mark, his 1,145 yards in kickoff returns is the fourth-best mark ever by an NC State player ... Boast 542 yards in career punt returns, the fifth-best mark in school history, his 9.5 career average is tied for 10th in the record books ... His 2,742 career all-purpose yards ranks 14th on the NC State career list.

In 2006:  A first-team All-ACC performer as a specialist, he was named a preseason all-conference specialist by Blue Ribbon ... Tallied 549 yards in kickoff returns, the sixth-best mark in school history ... Ranked fourth in the ACC in all-purpose yardage with 105.5 per game ... Led the ACC with a 28.9 KOR average, the fifth-best mark in school history and the fourth-best mark in Division I for 2006 ... Ranked sixth in the ACC with an 8.6 yard punt return average ... Tallied 234 all-purpose yards against Georgia Tech, the highest mark in the ACC last season and the eighth-best mark in school history ... Suffered a knee sprain on the opening kickoff at Southern Miss, he missed the rest of that game and the Boston College contest ... Ranked third on the team with 27 receptions in his first year at wide receiver ... Moved from tailback to wideout in the spring of 2006 ... Led the red team to a comeback victory in the 2007 red/white game, he scored two touchdowns in the final three minutes, one a 50-yard catch.

In 2005:  Led the ACC and ranked sixth in the nation in kickoff returns with 29.1 yards per return ... That mark was the fifth-best in Wolfpack single season history ... The first Wolfpack player to lead the ACC in kickoff returns since 1988 ... Earned second-team All-ACC honors as a specialist ... A second-team rivals.com All-American ... Also ranked 10th in the ACC in punt returns and ninth in all-purpose yardage, even though he did not see action from scrimmage against Georgia Tech and played just 15 snaps in the last three games ...     Tallied 161 yards on three kickoff returns against Clemson, that mark ranks third in school history and was the best mark in the ACC in 2005 (tied for eighth nationally)  ... His 138 yards against UNC was the eighth-best mark in school history at that point (now ninth) ...     His 538 yards of kickoff returns for the season ranks fifth in school history ... Earned the starter's job at tailback to open the season, he missed the start against Eastern Kentucky for being late to a meeting and then against Georgia Tech due to the ankle injury ...     The recipient of the second-longest pass of QB Jay Davis' career, he scored on the 70-yard grab versus Eastern Kentucky.

In 2004:  Led the ACC and ranked third nationally in punt returns with a 17.83 average, even though he didn’t return a kick until the eighth game of the season ... That was the best average ever for a Wolfpack freshman and ranks third in school history ... NC State’s third-leading rusher with 206 yards ... Posted the top two single-game punt return marks ever by a Wolfpack freshman with 103 versus Florida State and 85 versus East Carolina ... Scored the Wolfpack’s only touchdown in the loss to No. 11 FSU, he ran a punt return back 87 yards, the third-longest return in school history ...   That was only his second game as a punt returner ... Rushed for a career-high 90 yards in the loss at Clemson ... Finished with a season-best three catches for 53 yards ... Earned his first career start in his first collegiate game versus Richmond ... Missed the Wake Forest game with an AC (shoulder) separation ... Sat out most of 2005 spring workouts with a high ankle sprain.

Prep:  Committed to NC State in spring of 2003 out of Williamsport (Pa.) Area High School, but attended Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Va. ... Rushed 220 times for 2,323 yards and 22 TDs while averaging 10.6 yards per carry in his senior season of high school ... As a junior, gained 2,457 yards and scored 32 touchdowns ... Set new school records with 6,775 career rushing yards and 70 touchdowns ... One of 78 players chosen nationally to participate in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, where he rushed for 86 yards on only six carries ... 2002 First-Team Parade All-American selection ... Ranked as the No. 3 running back nationally by Tom Lemming in 2003 ... G&W and Lemming ranked him the top player in the state in 2003 ... Two-time first-team all-state performer in football ... Named conference player of the year three times ... Was first-team all-state in basketball as a junior and second-team as a senior ... Averaged more than 20 points per game his final two seasons ... Majoring in sports management ... Born 1/7/85.

2005 Blackman Game by Game Stats

Opponent Pl Att Yds TD Lg KD Rec Yds TD BT YAC KOR PR

*Virginia Tech 38 12 58 1 25 1 4 40 0 6-54 2 1-38 2-15

E. Kentucky 14 6 17 0 8 0 1 70 1 0-0 5 2-37 2-21

*N. Carolina 26 4 28 0 11 0 1 7 0 0-0 7 3-138 1-0

@ Ga. Tech Special Teams Only 0-0 1-6

*Clemson 34 10 46 1 20 2 2 12 0 2-9 2 3-161 2-13

*@ WFU 23 4 3 0 4 0 1 2 0 1-1 0 3-55 3-8

*South. Miss 12 3 8 0 5 0 0 0 0 1-4 2 1-19 3-10

@ FSU 3 2 12 0 15 0 1 (6) 0 1-5 0 3-50 5-48

@ Boston Coll 8 2 7 0 4 2 7 0 0-0 0 1-40 2-1

MTSU 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 0 0-0 0-0

Maryland 6 1 (1) 0 (1) 0 1 12 0 0-0 0-0 3-44 0-0

#S. Florida 8 2 25 0 23 0 2 7 0 2-24 0 0-0 0-0

Blackman Career Stats

Year GP-GS Pl Att Yds TD KD Rec Yds TD BT-Yds KOR PR

2004 10-1 134 50 206 1 0 9 90 0 13-48 1-14 12-214-1

2005 12-5 173 46 203 2 3 15 151 1 13-97 20-582 21-122-0

Totals 22-6 307 96 409 3 3 24 241 1 26-145 21-596 33-336-1

KD = Knockdown; BT = Broken tackles plus additional yd; YAC = Yds after contact