Cameron Wake

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Cameron Wake
Cameron Wake 2014.JPG
Wake 2014
Defensive end
Date of birth: January 30, 1982
Place of birth: Beltsville , Maryland
Height: 1.91 m Weight: 122 kg
NFL debut
2009 for the Miami Dolphins
Career
College : Penn State
Not drafted in 2005
 Teams:
Current status: Free Agent
Career highlights and awards
  • 5 × Pro Bowl (2010, 2012 , 2013, 2014, 2016 )
  • First-Team All-Pro (2012)
  • 2 × Second-Team All-Pro (2010, 2014)
  • Miami Dolphins MVP (2012)
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Tackles     364
Sacks     100.5
Forced fumbles     22nd
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Derek Cameron Wake (born on the thirtieth January 1982 in Beltsville , Maryland is) a US American football poker players on the position of the defensive ends . He played college football for Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) before he was briefly committed in 2005 by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent . After two seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the BC Lions , he played with the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League (NFL) from 2009 to 2018 . In 2019 he was under contract with the Tennessee Titans .

Early years

Born in Beltsville, Maryland, he grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC and attended DeMatha High School in Hyattsville . As a football player, he was named Defensive Player of the Year by the Washington Post in his senior year .

Career

college

He then accepted a scholarship offer from the Pennsylvania State University and ran from then on for the Penn State Nittany Lions . He was used as a linebacker and defensive end and ended his college football career with 191 tackles , 8.5 sacks and 24 tackles for loss of space.

NFL

New York Giants

Wake was not selected in the 2005 NFL Draft and was therefore signed by the Giants as an undrafted free agent. However, he was released before the start of the season.

BC Lions

It wasn't until two years later that he got the chance to play professional football again when he signed with the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL) in May 2007 . He played on the defensive end position from the start and performed well immediately. After an impressive debut with seven tackles and three sacks, he was named Defensive Player of the Week on matchday one after beating the Toronto Argonauts 24:22 . This season he had the most sacks in the CFL (16) and also blocked the only field goal . He also made 72 tackles and was the first CFL player to be named both Rookie of the Year and CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award .

In 2008 he scored again the most sacks (23) and received, among other things, the "CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award" (most outstanding defender award). He was also later elected to the CFL All-Decade Team by The Washington Examiner from 2000 to 2009.

Miami Dolphins

After the 2008 season, 17 NFL teams showed an interest in Wake. He graduated with eight teams tryouts and eventually signed on 18 January 2009, four-year contract of 4.9 million US dollars for the Miami Dolphins . On the fourth day of the 2009 season he came for the first time in the NFL, and he got two sacks, four tackles for loss of space and a forced fumble against the Buffalo Bills . In 2010 he got the third most sacks in the NFL (14), 57 tackles and three forced fumbles, which earned him his first nomination for the Pro Bowl . On May 5, 2012, he signed a four-year contract extension that could bring him up to 49 million US dollars including bonus payments. In 2012 he moved from the position as outside linebacker to the defensive end, which gave him what was probably his best season in the NFL. He collected 53 tackles and 15 sacks, making it, after Randy Starks , only the second Dolphins player to be nominated for two different positions for the Pro Bowl. Also in 2014 he was called up to the Pro Bowl with 8.5 sacks. In 2015, he was only used in seven games, as he tore his Achilles tendon on matchday eight against the New England Patriots , causing him to be out for the rest of the season.

Tennessee Titans

In March 2019, Wake signed a three-year contract with the Tennessee Titans for $ 23 million . In Tennessee, he was used in nine games before he was put on the Injured Reserve List . He previously scored 2.5 sacks on Matchday 1 and posted 11 quarterback hits. He was released from the Titans on March 12, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wake reflects on release by giants (English) espn.com, accessed on October 29, 2015
  2. ↑ WAKE WINS SECOND OUTSTANDING DEFENSIVE PLAYER AWARD. Retrieved February 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Dolphins import pass rusher wake (English) nfl.com, accessed October 29, 2015
  4. ↑ dolphins give wake fouryear contract (English) nfl.com, accessed on October 29, 2015
  5. ↑ wake out for season with torn achilles (English) nfl.com, accessed October 30, 2015
  6. ↑ Grant Gordon: Cameron Wake leaving Dolphins to join Titans on nfl.com. March 12, 2019, accessed on March 13, 2020.
  7. ↑ Erik Bacharach: Titans release outside linebacker Cameron Wake, running back Dion Lewis. In: USA Today . March 12, 2019, accessed on March 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Wake, Cameron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wake, Derek Cameron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Beltsville , Maryland , United States