Benardrick McKinney
 McKinney 2018 |
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| Houston Texans - No. 55 | |
| Linebacker | |
| Date of birth: November 19, 1992 | |
| Place of birth: Tunica , Mississippi | |
| Height: 1.93 m | Weight: 118 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2015 for the Houston Texans | |
| Career | |
| College : Mississippi State | |
| NFL Draft : 2015 / Round: 2 / Pick: 43 | |
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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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| Tackles | 493 |
| Sacks | 11.5 |
| Forced fumble | 4th |
| Interceptions | 1 |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Benardrick Cornelius McKinney (* 19th November 1992 in Tunica , Mississippi ) is an American American football poker players on the position of the linebackers . He plays for the Houston Texans in the National Football League (NFL).
college
McKinney, who also made a name for himself as a basketball player in high school , attended Mississippi State University and played college football for their team, the Bulldogs, successfully between 2012 and 2014 , setting 243 tackles and preventing 7 passes. He also got 7.5 sacks .
NFL
In the 2015 NFL Draft , he was selected in the second round as the 43rd player by the Houston Texans . The Texans swapped their second, fourth, and six- round picks for the Cleveland Browns ' second-round pick , so they could move forward and pick it. He was awarded a four-year contract worth $ 5.34 million , of which $ 2.82 was guaranteed, and a signing bonus of $ 2.1 million. McKinney was able to prevail from the start and was featured 14 times in his rookie season , 11 of them as a starter . In the following three seasons he kept this position in all encounters and developed alongside JJ Watt and Jadeveon Clowney to a fixture in the defense of the Texans. In 2018, he received a new five-year contract worth 50 million US dollars early on. He thanked it with consistently good performances, for which he was elected to the Pro Bowl for the first time .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ College stats on sports-reference.com, accessed January 5, 2019
- ↑ Report on sbnation.com from May 1, 2015, accessed on January 5, 2019
- ↑ Contract details on spotrac.com, accessed on January 5, 2019
- ↑ Report on nfl.com from June 14, 2018, accessed on January 5, 2019
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | McKinney, Benardrick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McKinney, Benardrick Cornelius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunica , Mississippi , United States |