Cole Beasley

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Cole Beasley
Cole Beasley September 2016.jpg
Beasley 2016
Buffalo Bills - No. 10
Wide receiver
Date of birth: April 26, 1989
Place of birth: Houston , Texas
Height: 1.73 m Weight: 82 kg
NFL debut
2012 for the Dallas Cowboys
Career
College : Southern Methodist University
Not drafted in 2012
 Teams:
Current status: Active
Career highlights and awards
  • No significant events
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Captured passports     386
Captive yards     4,049
Touchdowns     29
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Cole Beasley Dickson (* 26. April 1989 in Houston , Texas ) is an American American football player at the position of wide receiver . He played college football for Southern Methodist University and is active for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League (NFL).

Early years

Beasley attended Little Elm High School, where he was able to lead the Lobos football team to the playoffs for two consecutive years , earning him an award as District co- MVP ( District Most Valuable Player). In his senior year, he scored 1,184 yards in running game , 1,570 yards in passing game, and 12 touchdowns . The jersey with the number 11 was no longer awarded in his honor.

college

After high school, he decided against an offer to play as a quarterback for the Air Force Academy . Instead, he accepted a scholarship to Southern Methodist University. There he was retrained as a wide receiver , as his chances of ever getting into the NFL on his regular position were rated as rather low. As a freshman , he was used in 11 games, 7 of them as a starter . In his strongest game against Tulsa , he caught 8 passes for 94 yards.

In his sophomore year, his 71 yard gain in the first play (opening drive) contributed to winning the Hawaii Bowl (43:10 against Nevada). In his senior year he was the undisputed regular player in all 14 games. Together with his teammate Aldrick Robinson (now a wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings ), he set a new school record for receiver tandems with 2,631 yards of space gained and 165 passes.

NFL

Although he was the most frequently alluded pass recipient at his college with 86 pass catches for 1074 yards in his senior year at SMU, he only managed two touchdowns during the season. This fact, combined with his small height of only 1.73 m, resulted in Beasley not being selected in the 2012 NFL Draft. However, since the Dallas Cowboys, as a supplement to their two athletic wide receivers, Dez Bryant and Miles Austin, still have exactly this type of player of the small, fast and agile slot receiver (player for mostly short passes in the "gap" between the offensive line and another wide receiver) they hired Cole Beasley as an undrafted free agent .

After an impressive performance in the training camp, Beasley left the team for "personal reasons" and even toyed with the idea of ​​finally saying goodbye to professional football. It was only after a long conversation with his father that he decided to reconsider this decision and return to his team. On September 5, in week 1 of the 2012 season , he finally played his first game for the Cowboys. In his rookie year he had 10 missions with 15 trapped passes for 98 yards.

His final breakthrough came in the 2013 season . He had the highest rate of successfully sold passport receipts in the league; especially in tight game situations, in the last quarter of the games he was able to convince with 13 successful passes for 125 yards and a touchdown.

In the 2014 season he reached the play-offs with the Dallas Cowboys. Three of his four successful pass catches resulted in new first downs on the third attempt . Not least with a recaptured ball after a critical fumble by Tony Romo , he contributed to the 24:20 success in the so-called "Wildcard Game".

On March 3, 2015, Beasley signed a new four-year contract that should bring him $ 13.6 million with a $ 7 million guarantee and a " signing bonus " of $ 4 million. In both the 2015 and 2016 seasons, he scored 5 touchdowns each. He was alluded to 98 times as a passport recipient. This and 75 trapped passes for 833 yards were the highest scores he could get in his career.

On December 9, 2018, in a 29:23 win over the Philadelphia Eagles , he played his 100th game for the Dallas Cowboys.

In March 2019, Beasley left the Cowboys to sign a four-year $ 29 million deal with the Buffalo Bills .

Music career

In January 2018 he started a second career as a rapper . Together with music producer Victor "Phazz" Clark, Beasley founded the record company ColdNation Records. There he first published the single "80 Stings", which made it to number 43 on the iTunes charts. In May 2018 his first album "The Autobiography" was released, which after it was released was placed in the TOP 20 of the iTunes charts and later even made it into the TOP 10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TBT: Cole Beasley on 5pointsblue.com, November 17, 2016, accessed December 16, 2018
  2. ↑ 'Unguardable' Cole Beasley Is Dallas Cowboys' Secret Weapon on nytimes.com, accessed December 16, 2018
  3. ↑ Report on smumustangs.com from October 11, 2014, accessed on December 16, 2018
  4. ↑ 'Unguardable' Cole Beasley Is Dallas Cowboys' Secret Weapon nytimes.com, December 10, 2016, accessed December 16, 2018
  5. ↑ Will Cole Beasley Be On The Dallas Cowboys Roster In 2015? thelandryhat.com, accessed December 16, 2018
  6. ↑ Focus On: Cole Beasley on wfaa.com, accessed December 16, 2018
  7. ↑ Full play-by-play table on pro-football-reference.com, accessed December 16, 2018
  8. ↑ Cowboys, Cole Beasley agree to four-year, $ 13.6M deal nfl.com, March 3, 2015, accessed December 17, 2018
  9. ^ Source: WR Cole Beasley moving on from Cowboys, agrees to 4-year deal with Buffalo Bills. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Facebook page of Cold Nation Records business.facebook.com, accessed on 17 December 2018
  11. ↑ iTunes Charts in January 2018 www.itunescharts.net, accessed on December 17, 2018
  12. ↑ Cowboys' Cole Beasley's rap album soaring up the charts eu.shreveporttimes.com, accessed December 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Beasley, Cole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beasley, Cole Dickson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas