Amari Cooper
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| Dallas Cowboys - No. 19 | |
| Wide receiver | |
| Date of birth: June 17, 1994 | |
| Place of birth: Miami , Florida | |
| Height: 1.85 m | Weight: 95 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2015 for the Oakland Raiders | |
| Career | |
| College : Alabama | |
| NFL Draft : 2015 / Round: 1 / Pick: 4th | |
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| Current status: Active | |
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Selected NFL stats as of week 17 of the 2019 season |
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| Captured passports | 357 |
| Captive yards | 5,097 |
| Captured touchdowns | 33 |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Amari Cooper (born on 17th June 1994 in Miami , Florida is) a US American football poker players on the position of wide receiver . He played college football for the University of Alabama , won the Fred Biletnikoff Award in 2014 and was voted All-American . In the 2015 NFL Draft , he was selected in fourth position by the Oakland Raiders . He is currently active for the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL).
Early years
Cooper attended Miami Northwestern High School , where he played with future NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater football. He mostly missed his junior year due to injury, but as a senior he caught passes for 722 yards and six touchdowns . Rivals.com rated him as a four-star talent, eighth best player in Florida, and 45th on the US Top Talent list.
college
Among numerous scholarship offers, he finally decided on the University of Alabama .
As a freshman he played in all 14 games for the Alabama Crimson Tide and caught 59 passes for 1,000 yards and eleven touchdowns, breaking the freshman records set by Julio Jones . In triumphing over the University of Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship Game , he gained 105 yards of space and 2 touchdowns. In 2013 he played again and again and caught a total of 45 passes for 736 yards and four touchdowns. As a junior, he set several records a year later. Against the University of Tennessee he got pass catches for 224 yards, which was also a school record as the 124 catches over 1,727 yards and 16 touchdowns that he got over the entire season. He won the Fred Biletnikoff Award for best college football wide receiver and was named All-American . Cooper then skipped another year of college and signed up for the 2015 NFL Draft .
NFL
Oakland Raiders
Together with Kevin White was Cooper as one of the best available wide receiver for the Draft 2015. The Oakland Raiders selected him in fourth place, and he signed a four-year contract for 22.7 million US dollars . He made his NFL debut on Matchday 1 against the St. Louis Rams when he caught three passes for 22 yards. His first touchdown came a week later against the Baltimore Ravens after a pass from Derek Carr over 68 yards. After making pass catches for a total of 109 yards in this game and catching eight passes for 134 yards against the Cleveland Browns the following week , he became the first Raiders player since Randy Moss in 2005 to win the 100- in two games in a row. Could break yard mark by pass catches. Cooper became the first Oakland Raiders rookie to catch passes for more than 1,000 yards (1,070) this season . Together with Derek Carr and Latavius Murray , he was named the Pro Bowl alternative at the end of the season , and with Brandon Marshall's cancellation he moved up to the list of participating players.
In the 2016 season, Cooper scored the game-winning touchdown in week 8 at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in overtime. In total, he caught 83 passes for 1,153 yards and five touchdowns in the season. He was nominated again for the Pro Bowl, in which he did not take part due to a shoulder injury.
In 2017 , he started in the 31:30 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Matchday 7 for 210 yards of space and 2 touchdowns, after having previously scored only 146 yards and one touchdown in all games, making him the first player in the Raiders since Art Powell getting over 200 receiving yards in one game in 1965. Overall, the season didn't go as well as expected for him as he suffered several injuries. Unlike in his first two seasons, he did not get over the 1000 yard mark. He scored a total of seven touchdowns in the 2017 season.
Dallas Cowboys
On October 22, 2018, Cooper moved from the Raiders to the Dallas Cowboys in return for a first-round pick.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amari Cooper profile on rivals.com, accessed December 10, 2018.
- ↑ Amari Cooper owns every major Alabama receiving record on foxsports.com, December 2, 2014, accessed December 10, 2018.
- ↑ Alabama's Amari Cooper wins Biletnikoff Award for nation's top receiver on al.com, December 11, 2014, accessed December 10, 2018.
- ↑ Amari Cooper signs Raiders rookie contract for a serious pay day al.com, May 8, 2015, accessed December 10, 2018.
- ↑ Amari Cooper added to Pro Bowl as injury replacement for Brandon Marshall on espn.com, January 22, 2016, accessed December 10, 2018.
- ↑ Let's Watch Just How Badly Amari Cooper Clowned the Buccaneers Defense , Vice Sports, November 1, 2016, accessed December 10, 2018.
- ↑ Raiders WR Amari Cooper has been historic in first two seasons on raiderswire.usatoday.com, May 22, 2017, accessed on December 10, 2018.
- ↑ NFL Pro Bowl roster 2017: Amari Cooper latest Raiders Pro Bowler to bow out of All Star game, replaced by Broncos Emmanuel Sanders on silverandblackpride.com, January 18, 2017, accessed on December 10, 2018.
- ↑ Derek Carr, Amari Cooper back to having fun with Raiders offense on espn.com, October 20, 2017, accessed December 10, 2018
- ↑ Derek Carr says Amari Cooper battled injuries throughout 2017 on cbssports.com, February 16, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018.
- ↑ NFL: Trade! Dallas Cowboys Bring Amari Cooper from Oakland Raiders www.spox.com, accessed December 10, 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cooper, Amari |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miami , Florida , United States |