Greg Olsen (American football player)
 Olsen (2007) |
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| Seattle Seahawks - No. | |
| Tight end | |
| Date of birth: March 11, 1985 | |
| Place of birth: Paterson , New Jersey | |
| Height: 1.98 m | Weight: 115 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2007 for the Chicago Bears | |
| Career | |
| College : Miami (FL) | |
| NFL Draft : 2007 / Round: 1 / Pick: 31st | |
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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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| Captured passports | 718 |
| Captive yards | 8,444 |
| Touchdowns | 59 |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Gregory Olsen (born on 11. March 1985 in Paterson , New Jersey is) a US American football poker players on the position of tight ends . He played college football at the University of Miami and was selected by the Chicago Bears in the 2007 NFL Draft . From 2011 to 2019 he was active for the Carolina Panthers in the National Football League (NFL). From 2020 he is under contract with the Seattle Seahawks .
Career
Early years
Olsen grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, where he also went to high school and played basketball in addition to football and competed in various athletics disciplines. As a senior, he was named a first-team All-American by USA Today in 2002 and ended his high school career with 73 passes caught for 1,474 yards and 27 touchdowns . Rivals.com rated him a five-star talent and second best tight end in his class.
Olsen originally enrolled at the University of Notre Dame , but then moved to the University of Miami in his freshman year in 2003 . The 2004 season he was injured and only in 2005 he became a regular for the Miami Hurricanes. In total, he caught 87 passes for 1,215 yards and six touchdowns during his college years.
NFL
Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears selected Olsen in the 2007 NFL Draft as the 31st player and he signed a five-year contract on July 3, 2007. He made his NFL debut on Matchday 3 against the Dallas Cowboys when he caught two passes for 28 yards. Two weeks later, he scored his first touchdown in professional football against the Green Bay Packers . In total, he got 39 catches for 391 yards and two touchdowns in his rookie season. In his second season his playing times increased and at the end of the season he led his team in captive touchdowns (5). In 2009 he quickly developed a good rapport with newly signed quarterback Jay Cutler , and he took 60 trapped passes for 612 yards and eight touchdowns. However, a new offensive coordinator was hired after the season with Mike Martz ; then Olsen's values worsened compared to previous years. However, he helped the Bears with 113 yards trapped in the play-offs victory against the Seattle Seahawks .
Carolina Panthers
On July 28, 2011, the Bears Olsen gave in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2012 NFL Draft to the Carolina Panthers . In his first season with Panthers quarterback Cam Newton he got 540 yards of space and five touchdowns. In the 2014 season , Olsen set career highs when he caught 84 passes for 1,008 yards and six touchdowns. This earned him his first nomination for the Pro Bowl , where he scored two touchdowns.
On March 5, 2015 Olsen signed a new three-year contract for 22.5 million with the Panthers dollars . On the third day of the 2015 season he won 134 yards of space against the New Orleans Saints , setting a new personal best to date. The season was very successful for Olsen and the Panthers. Greg Olsen was called up to the Pro Bowl for the second time in his career. He couldn't take part in this because he reached Super Bowl 50 with his franchise from Carolina . In the Super Bowl you lost to the Denver Broncos . In the 2016 season , Greg Olsen was even able to improve his personal best. On the fifth game day against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Olsen managed to gain space over 181 yards. With this record, Olsen is also the tight end with the most yards in a game for the Panthers ever. With his team, he could not build on the strong performance of the previous year, the Panthers did not even reach the play-offs. Nevertheless, Olsen was able to convince throughout the season with his individual performances. He was called up to the Pro Bowl for the third time in a row after the season.
Seattle Seahawks
After the Panthers terminated Olsen's contract after the 2019 season, he signed a $ 7 million one-year deal with the Seattle Seahawks on February 18, 2020 .
Career statistics
| season | team | Games | Receiving | Rushing | Fumbles | ||||||||||
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| GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | Att | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | FUM | Lost | ||
| 2007 | Chicago Bears | 14th | 4th | 39 | 391 | 10.0 | 31 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2008 | Chicago Bears | 16 | 7th | 54 | 574 | 10.6 | 52 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | Chicago Bears | 16 | 15th | 60 | 612 | 10.2 | 41 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2010 | Chicago Bears | 16 | 13 | 41 | 404 | 9.9 | 39T | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 |
| 2011 | Carolina Panthers | 16 | 13 | 45 | 540 | 12.0 | 44T | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | Carolina Panthers | 16 | 16 | 69 | 843 | 12.2 | 47T | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2013 | Carolina Panthers | 16 | 16 | 73 | 816 | 11.2 | 31 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2014 | Carolina Panthers | 16 | 16 | 84 | 1.008 | 12.0 | 38 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | Carolina Panthers | 16 | 16 | 77 | 1.104 | 14.3 | 52 | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | Carolina Panthers | 16 | 16 | 80 | 1,073 | 13.4 | 78 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2017 | Carolina Panthers | 7th | 7th | 17th | 191 | 11.2 | 30th | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2018 | Carolina Panthers | 9 | 9 | 27 | 291 | 10.8 | 23 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | Carolina Panthers | 14th | 14th | 52 | 597 | 111.5 | 41 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| total | 188 | 162 | 718 | 8,444 | 11.8 | 78 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 7th | 5 | |
Individual evidence
- ↑ greg olsen recruiting profile (English) sports.yahoo.com, Accessed on October 14, 2015
- ↑ Cowboys Bears recap sports.yahoo.com, accessed October 14, 2015
- ↑ Greg Olsen stats (English) espn.com, accessed on October 14, 2015
- ↑ panthers sign greg olsen to 3 year extension (English) espn.com, accessed on October 14, 2015
- ↑ Greg Olsen new record ( Memento from December 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), panthers.com, accessed on April 17, 2019 (English)
- ↑ Seattle Seahawks sign tight end Greg Olsen on spox.com. February 19, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Olsen, Greg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Olsen, Gregory |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paterson , New Jersey , United States |