Alshon Jeffery
 Jeffery (2017) |
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| Philadelphia Eagles - No. 17 | |
| Wide receiver | |
| Date of birth: February 14, 1990 | |
| Place of birth: St. Matthews , South Carolina | |
| Height: 1.91 m | Weight: 98 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2012 for the Chicago Bears | |
| Career | |
| College : South Carolina | |
| NFL Draft : 2012 / Round: 2 / Pick: 45 | |
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| Current status: Injured Reserve List | |
| 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 | 469 |
| Captive yards | 6,671 |
| Captured touchdowns | 39 |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Alshon Jeffery (* 14. February 1990 in St. Matthews , South Carolina ) is an American American football poker players on the position of wide receiver . He played college football for the University of South Carolina before being selected by the Chicago Bears in the second round of the 2012 NFL Draft . He has played for the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football League (NFL) since the 2017 season .
Early years
Jeffery attended Calhoun County High School in St. Matthews, South Carolina, where he was part of the basketball team that went undefeated in 80 games in four years and won the state championships four times. He also played football for two years and caught 35 passes for 740 yards and 14 touchdowns in his senior season , which earned him many scholarship offers. He eventually chose the University of South Carolina. Rivals.com had him on the list of the best players of the year as the fourth best player in South Carolina and thirteenth best high school wide receiver in the United States.
For the South Carolina Gamecocks, he caught as a rookie five passes in five games before catching seven passes for 138 yards and three touchdowns against the University of Kentucky . He was elected First-Team Freshman All- SEC that season . In 2010, in his second season, he scored 88 trapped passes for 1,517 yards and nine touchdowns in 14 games. He caught more than 100 yards in eight games and was a finalist in the Fred Biletnikoff Awards for best wide receiver in college football . He was elected All-American and helped the Gamecocks to participate in the SEC championship game for the first time. In 2011, he caught 49 passes for 762 yards and eight touchdowns. He then decided to forego another possible year of college and sign up for the 2012 NFL Draft .
NFL
Chicago Bears
Before the draft, he was considered a potential top 10 pick , but ultimately he was only selected as the 45th player by the Chicago Bears . On May 2, 2012, he signed a four-year contract for 4,448,000 US dollars . In his professional debut against the Indianapolis Colts , he caught a 42-yard pass from Jay Cutler for his first NFL touchdown. On the fifth game day he broke his hand and had to sit out a few games, which meant that he caught only 24 passes for 367 yards and three touchdowns this season due to limited hours.
On the fourth day of the 2013 season , he caught passes for more than 100 yards against the Detroit Lions for the first time in the NFL. The next week, he broke the Chicago Bears franchise record for yards trapped in one game when he caught ten passes for 218 yards against the New Orleans Saints . On the thirteenth game day against the Minnesota Vikings , he was the first player in Bears history to catch more than 200 yards in two games in one season. Ultimately, he made 89 pass catches for 1,421 yards and seven touchdowns this season and was invited to the Pro Bowl after being injured by Calvin Johnson .
In 2014 , he became the fourth Chicago Bears player to achieve pass catches for more than 1,000 yards in two consecutive seasons when he caught 85 passes for 1,133 yards and ten touchdowns in 16 games.
In the final year of his rookie contract in 2015, he got off to a good start to the season, catching passes for more than 100 yards three times in the first four games. After that, however, he often struggled with injury problems and therefore only came on five more missions. When he played, however, he convinced and finally came in nine games to pass catches over 807 yards and four touchdowns. After the season, the Bears Jeffery occupied the franchise day , which they secured his services for the next season.
In the 2016 season Jefferey had to serve a 4-game suspension because of doping, but at the end of the season he still had 52 pass catches for 821 yards, but only two touchdowns.
Philadelphia Eagles
On March 9, 2017, he initially signed a one-year contract for $ 14 million with the Philadelphia Eagles . There he convinced and received on December 2nd of the same year an extension of the contract to four years, which can bring him up to 56 million dollars with a guaranteed sum of 27 million. This season the Eagles won the Super Bowl for the first time in their franchise history ( Super Bowl LII ). In the 41:33 success over the New England Patriots, it was reserved for Jeffery, who had already convinced with strong performances in the previous play-off games, to achieve the first touchdown of the game. Only later did it become known that Jeffery had disputed the whole season with a shoulder injury that made surgery inevitable just two and a half weeks after winning the Super Bowl.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a peek into recruiting with south carolinas jeffery (English) espn.com, accessed on October 31, 2015
- ↑ alshon jeffery bio (English) gamecocksonline.com, accessed on October 31, 2015
- ↑ alshon jeffery nfl mock draft 2012 (English) sbnation.com, accessed on October 31, 2015
- ↑ bears draft pick jeffery agrees to 4 year contract (English) sbnation.com, accessed October 31, 2015
- ^ Jeffery sets bears record in loss to saints. (English) chicagobears.com, accessed April 30, 2019
- ↑ bears use franchise tag on jeffery (English) cbssports.com, accessed on March 1, 2016
- ↑ Kevin Patra: Alshon Jeffery suspended four games by NFL. NFL.com, November 4, 2016, accessed April 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Kevin Patra: Alshon Jeffery, Eagles agree to one-year deal. NFL.com, March 9, 2017, accessed April 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Jeremy Bergman: Alshon Jeffery signs four-year, $ 52M Eagles extension. NFL.com, December 2, 2017, accessed April 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Chris Wesseling: Philadelphia Eagles knock off Patriots, win Super Bowl. NFL.com, February 4, 2018, accessed April 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Marc Sessler: Eagles WR Alshon Jeffery undergoes shoulder surgery. NFL.com, February 21, 2018, accessed April 30, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jeffery, Alshon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Matthews , South Carolina , United States |