Carson Wentz
 Carson Wentz (2017) |
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| Philadelphia Eagles - No. 11 | |
| Quarterback | |
| Date of birth: December 30, 1992 | |
| Place of birth: Raleigh , North Carolina | |
| Height: 1.96 m | Weight: 108 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2016 for the Philadelphia Eagles | |
| Career | |
| College : North Dakota State | |
| NFL Draft : 2016 / Round: 1 / Pick: 2nd | |
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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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| Touchdowns - interceptions | 70 - 28 |
| Space gain | 14,191 yards |
| Pass attempts | 2,055 |
| Passes arrived | 1.311 |
| Passes arrived | 63.8% |
| Quarterback rating | 92.7 |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Carson James Wentz (* the thirtieth December 1992 in Raleigh , North Carolina ) is an American American football player at the position of quarterback . He plays for the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for North Dakota State . In the 2016 NFL Draft , he was selected second by the Eagles.
Early years
Wentz attended Century High School in Bismarck, North Dakota , where he played on the football team as quarterback and defensive back . In addition to football, he also played baseball and basketball .
college
From 2011 he attended North Dakota State University , a college of the Division I category, where he played for the bison from then on. After being suspended for the first season, he was named backup quarterback for Brock Jensen in 2012. He had his first use on September 22, 2012, when he brought all of his eight passes for 93 yards and a touchdown to the teammate against Prairie View A&M University . In 2013 he was still a substitute quarterback, but was used in eleven games. In total, he threw 30 passes for 209 yards and a touchdown that year.
In 2014 he was appointed as a junior starting quarterback for the bison. He led his team to a record of 15 wins and one defeat and then into the NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, where he and his team beat Illinois State 29:27 and thus brought the fourth championship in a row for North Dakota State. In 16 games he completed 228 of 358 pass attempts for 3,111 yards, 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions . He also ran an additional 642 yards and six more touchdowns.
In 2015, his fifth and final year of college, he missed eight games with a broken wrist. He returned to the team in December and led his team to the fifth straight championship when he ran two touchdowns and passed for another. He was named Best Player of the Championship Game for the second year in a row.
NFL
Philadelphia Eagles
In the 2016 NFL Draft , he was selected as the second player behind Jared Goff by the Philadelphia Eagles . This makes him the first quarterback since Donovan McNabb in 1999, whom the Eagles drafted in the first round. In order to be able to sign him in second place, the Eagles gave three top 100 picks in the 2016 draft, a first round pick for 2017 and a second round pick for the 2018 draft to the Cleveland Browns . On May 12, 2016 , he signed a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles that will bring him $ 26.67 million over four years.
Since Wentz played in his college career with the bisons in the FCS (a subdivision of the NCAA Division I ) and thus not in the highest college football league, according to many experts and coaches Wentz was not yet ready to take on the role of starting Take on quarterbacks. Accordingly, he was initially only intended as the third quarterback behind starter Sam Bradford and back-up Chase Daniel with the Eagles . The Eagles' original plan was not to let Wentz play in his rookie season, but instead to give him at least a year to adjust to the rigors and pace of the NFL and learn behind his two teammates as well as his own skills work. However, Sam Bradford was swapped for a first-round pick and a prospective fourth-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft for the Minnesota Vikings about a week before the start of the regular season . Shortly before that, Teddy Bridgewater , the Vikings quarterback, had torn a cruciate ligament and a knee dislocation during training, which is why he was out at least for the entire 2016 season. Two days later, Wentz was named by Head Coach Doug Pederson to start the first regular season game against the Cleveland Browns.
In his NFL debut, Wentz confidently led the Eagles to a 29:10 win, throwing passes for 278 yards and 2 touchdowns, achieving a quarterback rating of 101.
In the 2017 season Wentz showed outstanding performances, threw 33 touchdowns at 3,296 yards and reached the play-offs with the Eagles as the best team in the NFC . He himself had to sit out at the play-offs because he tore a cruciate ligament on matchday 14 of the regular season .
It wasn't until week 3 of the 2018 season that he celebrated his comeback and led his team to a 20:16 win against the Indianapolis Colts . As early as December 14, 2018, a stress fracture in the spine meant that Wentz had another season off. In June 2019, the Eagles extended their contract with Wentz by four years until 2024. The contract extension guarantees Wentz $ 107 million, which is a new NFL record.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ wentz has found his own success after taking over starting job inforum.com, accessed May 3, 2016
- ↑ carson wentz bio (English) gobison.com, accessed on May 3, 2016
- ↑ eagles select carson wentz with no 2 overall pick espn.com, accessed on May 3, 2016
- ↑ eagles now have no 2 pick after trade with browns (English) cbssports.com, accessed on May 3, 2016
- ↑ Carson Wentz signs with the Eagles (German) ran.de, accessed on June 7, 2016
- ↑ http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/06/26/for-now-eagles-plan-to-make-carson-wentz-inactive-on-sundays/
- ↑ http://www.spox.com/de/sport/ussport/nfl/1609/Artikel/sam-bradford-trade-minnesota-vikings-philadelphia-eagles.html
- ↑ http://www.espn.com/blog/philadelphia-eagles/post/_/id/18363/eagles-carson-wentz-steals-the-show-in-nfl-debut
- ↑ Carson Wentz suffers cruciate ligament rupture on spox.com. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
- ↑ Report on apnews.com, accessed December 15, 2018
- ↑ Report on ran.de from December 14, 2018, accessed on December 15, 2018
- ↑ NFL: New record contract - Eagles extend with Carson Wentz on ran.de, June 7, 2019, accessed on June 15, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wentz, Carson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wentz, Carson James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bismarck (North Dakota) , North Dakota , United States |