AJ Green
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| Cincinnati Bengals - No. 18 | |
| Wide receiver | |
| Date of birth: July 31, 1988 | |
| Place of birth: Summerville , South Carolina | |
| Height: 1.93 m | Weight: 94 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2011 for the Cincinnati Bengals | |
| Career | |
| College : Georgia | |
| NFL Draft : 2011 / Round: 1 / Pick: 4th | |
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| Current status: Active | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Selected NFL stats as of week 17 of the 2019 season |
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| Captured passports | 602 |
| Captive yards | 8,907 |
| Touchdowns | 63 |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Adriel Jeremiah "AJ" Green (born on 31 July 1988 in Summerville , South Carolina is) a US American football poker players on the position of wide receiver . He played college football at the University of Georgia and was selected in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals . Since then he has been active for her in the National Football League (NFL) and was elected to the Pro Bowl every year from 2011 to 2017 .
Early years
Green attended Summerville High School, where he played basketball and athletics in addition to football . He was considered a great wide receiver talent early on and was listed by Sports Illustrated as the best player of his year. In his school days, he achieved a total of 5,373 yards of space gained by passing catches, which is the second best value ever achieved by a high school football player.
As a sophomore in high school, Green decided to attend the University of Georgia later . There he played for the Georgia Bulldogs from 2008 to 2010. In his first season, he set freshman school records for the number of passes caught (56), yards caught (963) and touchdowns (8). In 2009 he caught 47 balls for 751 yards and 6 touchdowns, despite having been injured in the last three games. For the first four games of the 2010 season he was suspended because he illicitly his jersey from the 2009 Independence Bowl for $ 1,000 dollars was sold to a former team member, which the NCAA has been classified as a player consultant. Part of his punishment was to donate $ 1,000 to a community service. Despite the missed games, he caught most of the passes within his team (57) for 848 yards and nine touchdowns. On January 9, 2011, he signed up for the 2011 NFL Draft and thus waived another possible year at college.
NFL
Cincinnati Bengals
Green was selected fourth in the 2011 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals . On July 28, 2011, he signed a four-year contract for $ 19.6 million. With his first catch in the NFL, he scored a 41-yard touchdown against the Cleveland Browns . In his rookie season, he broke Chris Collinsworth's 1981 franchise record by catching passes for more than 1,009 yards (1,031). In addition, together with rookie quarterback Andy Dalton, he set a new NFL record for passes and gained space between rookie WR and QB. After the season he was elected to the Pro Bowl as the first rookie wide receiver since Anquan Boldin in 2003 .
On the third day of the 2012 season, he set a personal best when he caught nine passes over 183 yards in the 38-31 win over the Washington Redskins . On game day ten, he caught a touchdown pass against the Kansas City Chiefs in the ninth game in a row, setting a new NFL record. In the Pro Bowl he won 119 yards and three touchdowns.
In 2013 he set new records in pass catches (98) and caught yards (1,426) and scored eleven touchdowns. He's also had six 100-yard games, five of them in a row, which is a Bengals franchise record.
In the 2014 season he missed three games due to a toe injury and still managed to gain over 1,000 yards of space and six touchdowns. However, he missed the play-offs and could not intervene in the defeat by the Indianapolis Colts .
On the third day of the 2015 season, Green set a new personal best with passes over 227 yards and two touchdowns in the last quarter of the game against the Baltimore Ravens . On the 13th game day he broke in the game against the Cleveland Browns by pass catches the 1000-yard mark, which he succeeded as the second player after Randy Moss in each of his first five NFL seasons.
Career statistics
| season | team | Games | Receiving | Rushing | Fumbles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | Att | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | FUM | Lost | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Cincinnati Bengals | 15th | 15th | 65 | 1,057 | 16.3 | 80T | 7th | 5 | 53 | 10.6 | 22nd | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Cincinnati Bengals | 16 | 16 | 97 | 1,350 | 13.9 | 73T | 11 | 4th | 38 | 9.5 | 20th | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Cincinnati Bengals | 16 | 16 | 98 | 1,426 | 14.6 | 82T | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Cincinnati Bengals | 13 | 13 | 69 | 1,041 | 15.1 | 81T | 6th | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Cincinnati Bengals | 16 | 16 | 86 | 1,297 | 15.1 | 80T | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Cincinnati Bengals | 10 | 10 | 66 | 964 | 14.6 | 54T | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Cincinnati Bengals | 16 | 16 | 75 | 1,078 | 14.4 | 77T | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Cincinnati Bengals | 9 | 9 | 46 | 694 | 15.1 | 38T | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| total | 111 | 111 | 602 | 8,907 | 14.8 | 82 | 63 | 11 | 93 | 8.5 | 22nd | 0 | 12 | 7th | |||||||||||||||||
| Source: NFL.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georgia lands top wide receiver usatoday.com, Retrieved October 11, 2015
- ↑ AJ Green Declares for NFL draft (English) washingtontimes.com, Accessed on October 11, 2015
- ↑ Bengals WR Green passes Collinsworths rookie receiving yardage record (English) megasportsnews.com, accessed October 11, 2015
- ↑ bengals rookie duo set encore (English) courier-journal.com, accessed on October 11, 2015
- ↑ aj green surpasses 1000 yards receiving (English) endzonescore.com, Accessed December 8, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Green, AJ |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Green, Adriel Jeremiah (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Summerville , South Carolina , United States |