Chris Godwin

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Chris Godwin
Tampa Bay Buccaneers - No. 14
Wide receiver
Date of birth: February 27, 1996
Place of birth: Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
Height: 1.85 m Weight: 94 kg
NFL debut
2017 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Career
College : Penn State
NFL Draft : 2017 / Round: 3 / Pick: 84
 Teams:
Career highlights and awards
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Captured passports     179
Captive yards     2700
Touchdowns     17th
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Rod Christopher "Chris" Godwin Jr. (born February 27, 1996 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American American football player on the position of wide receiver . He played college football for Pennsylvania State University . He has been with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the National Football League (NFL) since 2017 .

college

Godwin attended Middletown High School in Middletown , Delaware . He was rated by 247Sports as a four-star recruit, i.e. one of the top 300 players of his year. He was invited to the Under Armor All-America Game , the all-star game for high school players. From 2014 to 2016, Godwin played football in college . He attended Pennsylvania State University , where he played for the Penn State Nittany Lions in the NCAA Division I FBS. In the 2016 season, he was the lead receiver for the Nittany Lions. He played his last college game with the Rose Bowl , in which he caught two touchdown passes in the 49:52 loss of Penn State to the University of Southern California and scored 187 yards of space. As a result, Godwin decided to forego his senior year of college and enroll in the 2017 NFL Draft .

Overall, Godwin ran in 39 games for Penn State, in which he caught 154 passes for 2,421 yards and 18 touchdowns.

NFL

Godwin was selected 84th in the third round in the 2017 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers . In his rookie season, Godwin competed with DeSean Jackson and Adam Humphries for the position of second receiver behind Mike Evans . In the past two weeks, Godwin was given extra time due to an injury to Jackson. In the last game of the season, he caught his first touchdown in the NFL with a 39-yard pass from Jameis Winston with nine seconds remaining , which secured the Buccaneers victory over the New Orleans Saints . In total, he caught seven passes for 111 yards in this game. For his performance he was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week .

In his second season Godwin was able to establish himself increasingly and scored 842 receiving yards and seven touchdowns.

The 2019 season turned out to be Godwin's most successful season to date. In the 35:22 win over the Atlanta Falcons in Week 12, he caught two touchdown passes and gained 184 yards of space with his captured passes, for which he was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week . On December 17, 2019, Godwin was nominated for the Pro Bowl for the first time . In total, he caught 86 passes for 1333 yards and nine touchdowns during the season, leading his team in all of these statistics. With a hamstring injury, Godwin missed the last two games of the season. With his 1333 yards of space gain Godwin was third in this statistic in the NFL, only behind Michael Thomas and Julio Jones .

Before the 2020 season, Godwin changed his shirt number and decided to use the number 14 in the future. He left 12, his old number, to quarterback Tom Brady , who had moved to Tampa and had previously worn this number for the New England Patriots for twenty years .

NFL statistics

Regular season
year team Games Receiving Fumbles
GP GS Rec Yds Avg Lng TD Fum Lost
2017 TB 16 2 34 525 15.4 70 1 0 0
2018 TB 16 5 59 842 14.3 48 7th 4th 1
2019 TB 14th 14th 86 1,333 15.5 71 9 0 0
Total 46 21st 179 2,700 15.1 71 9 4th 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Kulha: Chris Godwin Commits to Penn State: What 4-Star WR Brings to Nittany Lions on bleacherreport.com. April 24, 2013, accessed January 3, 2020.
  2. ↑ Dustin Hockensmith: Penn State commit Chris Godwin accepts invitation to play in Under Armor All-America game on pennlivecom. June 5, 2013, accessed January 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ Vinnie Duber: After monster Rose Bowl performance, Penn State wideout Chris Godwin declares for NFL Draft on nbcsports.com. January 5, 2017, accessed January 3, 2020.
  4. ↑ College statistics on sports-reference.com, accessed January 3, 2020.
  5. ^ Daniel Gallen: NFL Draft 2017: Penn State WR Chris Godwin goes to Tampa Bay Buccaneers in third round, No. 84 overall on pennlivecom. April 29, 2017, accessed January 3, 2020.
  6. ↑ Rick Stroud: Bucs rookie Chris Godwin named NFC Offensive Player of the Week after game-winning TD vs. Saints. In: Tampa Bay Times . January 3, 2018, accessed January 3, 2020.
  7. ↑ Josh Alper: Bucs view Chris Godwin as a starting wide receiver on profootballtalk.nbcsports.com. August 7, 2018, accessed January 3, 2020.
  8. ↑ Carmen Vitali: Chris Godwin's 2018 Year in Review on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers website. January 15, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020.
  9. ^ Scott Smith: Chris Godwin Catches Another Player of the Week Award on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers website. November 27, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020.
  10. ↑ Rick Stroud: Bucs' Mike Evans, Chris Godwin picked for Pro Bowl. In: Tampa Bay Times . December 17, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020.
  11. ↑ Eduardo A. Encina: Chris Godwin likely to miss Bucs' season finale. In: Tampa Bay Times . December 27, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020.
  12. ↑ 2019 NFL Receiving on pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  13. ↑ Scott Smith: TB12, Still: Tom Brady Accepts Chris Godwin's Offer on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers website. March 31, 2020, accessed on March 31, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Godwin, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Godwin, Rod Christopher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania