Alfred Morris (football player)

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Alfred Morris
Alfred morris 2014.jpg
Morris in the 2014 Redskins jersey
Dallas Cowboys - No. 23
Running back
Date of birth: December 12, 1988
Place of birth: Pensacola , Florida
Height: 1.78 m Weight: 102 kg
NFL debut
2012 for the Washington Redskins
Career
College : Florida Atlantic University
NFL Draft : 2012 / Round: 6 / Pick: 173
 Teams:
Current status: active
Career highlights and awards
  • 2 × Pro Bowl (2013, 2014)
  • Second-team All-Pro (2012)
  • 3 × Pepsi Rookie of the Week (Weeks 7, 14 and 17, 2012)
  • NFC Offensive Player of the Week (Week 17, 2012)
  • Most yards in a Washington Redskins season running game (1,613 yards , 2012)
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2018 season
Yards in the running game     5,931
Yards per run     4.3
trapped yards     494
Touchdowns     34
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Alfred Bruce Morris (* 12. December 1988 in Pensacola , Florida ) is an American American football poker players in the position of running backs who for the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League plays (NFL). He was selected by the Washington Redskins in the sixth round of the 2012 NFL Draft and previously played college football for Florida Atlantic University .

High school

Morris attended Pine Forest High School in Pensacola, where he practiced football, basketball, and track and field . In football, he played both offense and defense . He ran 1,049 yards for 17 touchdowns . In defense, he put 147 tackles and caught five interceptions . He was named the North West Florida MVP , the First-Team All-State (fictional national team) and several times the MVP of a game. He was also extremely successful in athletics.

college

In the 2009 season at Florida Atlantic University , he ran 236 runs, 1,392 yards and eleven touchdowns. In his next season he managed to gain 928 yards of space and seven touchdowns in 227 attempts. This gives an average gain of 4.1 yards per run.

NFL

Washington Redskins

On May 6, 2012, Morris signed a four-year deal with the Washington Redskins . Morris finished his first season with the Redskins with 1,613 yards run and 13 touchdowns. He became the fourth player in NFL history to run over 1,600 yards in his rookie season. He ran 1,275 yards in the 2013 season and 1,074 yards in the 2014 season . Morris was thus only the fourth running back in the history of the Redskins, who managed to run over 1000 yards in three consecutive seasons.

Dallas Cowboys

After his contract with the Redskins expired, he signed a two-year contract with the Dallas Cowboys on March 22, 2016 .

San Francisco 49ers

On August 14, 2018, he signed a new contract with the San Francisco 49ers, where he temporarily advanced to starting running back after Jerick McKinnon's injury .

Dallas Cowboys

After a year-long stint with the 49ers, Morris returned to the Dallas Cowboys during Ezekiel Elliott's training strike on July 29, 2019 to use his experience to reinforce the Cowboys' backfield.

Rushing statistics

year team Att Yards Avg Lng TD Fmb Fmb lst
2012 WHAT 335 1,613 4.8 39T 13 4th 3
2013 WHAT 276 1,275 4.6 45T 7th 5 4th
2014 WHAT 265 1,074 4.1 30th 8th 2 0
2015 WHAT 202 751 3.7 48 1 0 0
2016 DAL 69 243 3.5 17th 2 0 0
2017 DAL 115 547 4.8 70 1 0 0
2018 49ers 111 428 3.9 51 2 2 1
total 1,373 5,931 4.3 70 34 13 8th

Source: nfl.com

Private life

Alfred is the son of Ronald and Yvonne Morris and has six brothers. One of his brothers, Shawn Morris, played college football for Birmingham – Southern College from 2009 to 2012 .

Web links

Commons : Alfred Morris (American football)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Chase: Alfred Morris Drives a $ 1,300 car to Redskins Park . In: usatoday.com , September 20, 2012. 
  2. ↑ Mike Jones: Redskins sign two more draft picks . In: WashingtonPost.com , May 6, 2012. 
  3. ↑ Mike Jones: Alfred Morris eclipses 1,000 yards for third time in three seasons . In: WashingtonPost.com , December 21, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2015. 
  4. ↑ cowboys agree to two year contract with alfred morris (English) nfl.com, accessed on March 22, 2016
  5. ^ 49ers Sign RB Alfred Morris; Waive OL Alan Knott. 49ers.com, August 14, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Nick Eatman: Cowboys To Add Veteran RB Alfred Morris. Dallas Cowboys website, July 29, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Career statistics on nfl.com. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ Mike Jones: Redskins RB Alfred Morris: Parents' example is key to his success . In: The Washington Post . September 4, 2012, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Morris, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morris, Alfred Bruce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Pensacola , Florida , United States