David Johnson (football player)

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David Johnson
Houston Texans - No.
Running back
Date of birth: December 16, 1991
Place of birth: Memphis , Tennessee
Height: 1.85 m Weight: 102 kg
NFL debut
2015 for the Arizona Cardinals
Career
College : Northern Iowa
NFL Draft : 2015 / Round: 3 / Pick: 86
 Teams:
Current status: Active
Career highlights and awards
  • NFL Offensive Rookie of the Month (December 2015)
  • Pro Bowl ( 2016 )
  • First-Team All-Pro (2016)
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Yards in the running game     3.128
run touchdowns     33
trapped yards     2,219
caught touchdowns     15th
Return touchdowns     1
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

David Johnson (* 16th December 1991 in Memphis , Tennessee ) is an American American football poker players in the position of running backs . He played college football at the University of Northern Iowa before being selected in the 2015 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals , for which he was active in the National Football League (NFL) until 2019 . He has been playing for the Houston Texans since 2020 .

Early years

Johnson attended Clinton High School in Clinton , Iowa , where he also played football, basketball and athletics . He played running back and defensive back for the River Kings , setting school records for most touchdowns scored in one season and in one game, and most passes and yards caught in a high school career.

college

From 2010 to 2014 he was a student at the University of Northern Iowa , where he played for the Panthers Football from 2011 . Except in his freshman year, he gained more than 1,000 yards of space each season . As a senior, he achieved 1,553 yards and 17 touchdowns in 287 attempts. In his college career he set school records for total yards and touchdowns as well as space gained by running and passing games.

NFL

2015

In the 2015 NFL Draft , the Arizona Cardinals selected Johnson in the third round as the 86th player and seventh running back of the draft. He signed on 18 May 2015, a four-year contract over 2.9 million US dollars . He started his rookie season as the fourth running back behind Andre Ellington , Chris Johnson and Stepfan Taylor . He made his first appearance at the season opener against the New Orleans Saints when he turned his only trapped pass into a 55-yard touchdown. Due to the injury to Ellington, he received more time in the following games and he succeeded on the second game day against the Chicago Bears his first run touchdown. He played his first game from the start on December 6, 2015 after Chris Johnson was also injured. He got 99 yards and two pass catches for 21 yards and one touchdown in the 27: 3 win against the St. Louis Rams . Two weeks later he set personal bests against the Philadelphia Eagles with 189 yards and 3 touchdowns. Johnson becomes the first rookie to score a run, a caught, and a kickoff-return touchdown in his first two games.

2016

In the season 2016 started Johnson in every regular-season game of the Cardinals and came to a total of 1,239 erlaufene yards and 16 touchdowns and 879 caught yards and four touchdowns.

2017

On the first day of the 2017 season, Johnson injured his  wrist against the Detroit Lions and had to undergo surgery. He was subsequently put on the Injured Reserve List by the Cardinals and missed the rest of the season.

2018

Johnson extended his contract with the Cardinals by 3 more years on September 8, 2018. This contract is worth 39 million US dollars.

2020

As part of a trade, the Cardinals gave Johnson together with a second round pick in exchange for wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins to the Houston Texans .

NFL career statistics

season team Games Rushing Receiving Kickoff returns Fumbles
GP GS Att Yds Avg Lng TD Rec Yds Avg Lng TD KR Yds Avg Long TD Fum Lost
2015 Arizona Cardinals 16 5 125 581 4.6 47T 8th 36 457 12.7 55T 4th 22nd 598 27.2 108T 1 4th 1
2016 Arizona Cardinals 16 16 293 1,239 4.2 58T 16 80 879 11.0 58 4th - - - - - 5 3
2017 Arizona Cardinals 1 1 11 23 2.1 6th 0 6th 67 11.2 24 0 - - - - - 2 1
2018 Arizona Cardinals 16 16 258 940 3.6 53 7th 50 446 8.9 40 3 - - - - - 3 2
2019 Arizona Cardinals 13 9 94 345 3.7 18th 2 36 370 10.3 31 4th - - - - - 1 1
Total 62 47 781 3.128 4.0 58 33 208 2,219 10.7 58 15th 22nd 598 27.2 108 1 15th 7th
Source: NFL.com

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ david johnson uni panthers profile unipanthers.com, accessed January 21, 2016
  2. ↑ honors continue for panthers' johnson qctimes.com, Retrieved January 21, 2016
  3. ↑ david johnsons monster night helps UNI advance desmoinesregister.com, accessed January 21, 2016
  4. ↑ David Johnson contract details (English) spotrac.com, accessed on January 21, 2016
  5. ↑ david johnson stats (English) nfl.com, accessed January 21, 2016
  6. ↑ Sam Farmer: NFL rookie David Johnson already a Hall of Famer, or at least his jersey is. LA Times, September 22, 2015, accessed July 23, 2016 : "Johnson, a third-round pick from Northern Iowa, is the first player in NFL history with a rushing touchdown, receiving touchdown and kickoff-return touchdown in his first two games. "
  7. ↑ Associated Press: Cardinals put running back David Johnson on injured reserve. LA Times, September 12, 2017, accessed on May 18, 2018 (English): "The Arizona Cardinals placed All-Pro running back David Johnson on injured reserve [...] David Johnson would undergo surgery on the dislocated left wrist he suffered Sunday in the season opener against Detroit. "
  8. ↑ Sarah Barshop: Sources: Cardinals get DeAndre Hopkins, RB David Johnson to Texans ship on espn.com. March 16, 2020, accessed on March 16, 2020.
  9. ↑ NFL career statistics on nfl.com. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Memphis , Tennessee , United States