Deonte Harris
| New Orleans Saints - No. 11 | |
| Wide receiver / return specialist | |
| Date of birth: December 4, 1997 | |
| Place of birth: Baltimore , Maryland | |
| Height: 1.68 m | Weight: 77 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2019 for the New Orleans Saints | |
| Career | |
| College : Assumption | |
| Not drafted in 2019 | |
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| Current status: Active | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Selected NFL stats as of week 17 of the 2019 season |
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| Pass catches | 6th |
| Yards | 24 |
| Running attempts | 4th |
| Space gain | 31 yards |
| Returns | 982 yards |
| Touchdowns total | 1 |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Deonte Harris (* 4. December 1997 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American American football poker players in the National Football League (NFL). He plays for the New Orleans Saints as a wide receiver and as a return specialist .
college
Harris, who had tried his hand at high school as a basketball player and track and field athlete , attended Assumption College , a Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts , and successfully played college football for their team, the greyhounds, in Division II of the NCAA , where he was between In 2015 and 2018 he scored a total of 45 touchdowns . He holds numerous school and league records, and if you consider all divisions, he is the most successful returner in college with 14 touchdowns .
NFL
Harris took the NFL Draft in 2019 not considered, but was then of the New Orleans Saints as a free agent obliged and received a three-year contract in the amount of 1,765,000 US dollars .
In the 2018 season, the Saints had called various players, including Taysom Hill , Alvin Kamara or Zach Line, as returner, but none of them could really convince. In order to remedy this and to strengthen the special teams in a targeted manner, Marcus Sherels had already been signed in March 2019 . But in preparation Harris was able to assert himself with consistently good performances against the injured veteran and made it into the 53-man squad. If he was only used comparatively rarely as a wide receiver - in 14 games he only recorded 6 pass catches for 24 or 4 runs 31 yards - he was able to fully convince as a return specialist. He got 982 return yards and a touchdown, for which he was only the 6th undrafted rookie since the beginning of the Super Bowl era in 1967 to be appointed to the Pro Bowl .
Web links
- Player Profile of the New Orleans Saints (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography on the Greyhound homepage, accessed on January 3, 2020 (English)
- ↑ Overview on spotrac.com, accessed on January 3, 2020 (English)
- ↑ Team statistics of the Saints on pro-football-reference.com, accessed on January 3, 2020 (English)
- ↑ Report on the homepage of the Assumption College from December 18, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2020 (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Harris, Deonte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1997 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore , Maryland |