Jason Sanders

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Jason Sanders
Miami Dolphins - No. 7
Kicker
Date of birth: November 16, 1995
Place of birth: Orange , California
Height: 1.80 m Weight: 84 kg
NFL debut
2018 for the Miami Dolphins
Career
College : New Mexico
NFL Draft : 2018 / Round: 7 / Pick: 229
 Teams:
Current status: active
Career highlights and awards
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Field goals     41/50
Field Goal%     82.0
Long field goal     54
Extra points     64/66
Extra Points%     97.0
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Jason Thomas Sanders (* 16th November 1995 in Orange , California ) is an American American football poker players on the position of the Kickers . He was selected as the 229th player by the Miami Dolphins in the 2018 NFL Draft . He was previously a table footballer at the University of New Mexico .

college

When he came to the university in 2014, he was initially a kickoff specialist . He completed 62 kickoffs in 12 games with an average distance of 62.1 yards . In 2015, Sanders was also used as a kicker for the first five games and converted 29 out of 29 possible extra points . In 2016 he scored 59 out of 59 extra points for New Mexico.

Field goal attempts Successful FG % Longest
2015 7th 3 42.9 32
2016 13 12 92.3 52
2017 15th 10 66.7 53
total 35 25th 67.3 -

NFL

Sanders was selected 229th in the 7th round by the Miami Dolphins in the 2018 NFL Draft .

On Matchday 13 of the 2019 season , Sanders caught a touchdown on a trick play against the Philadelphia Eagles . Previously, a kicker had last caught a touchdown pass with Jim Turner on October 16, 1977. In week 14, Sanders converted seven of eight field goal attempts in the 21:22 loss to the New York Jets . This made him the eighth player in NFL history to score seven field goals in one game, and the first Dolphins player to do so.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NFL Draft & Combine Profile - Jason Sanders. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Jason Sanders. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Jason Sanders - 2017 - New Mexico, University of. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Jordan McPherson, Adam H. Beasley: Who is Miami Dolphins seventh-round pick Jason Sanders? In: The Miami Herald . April 28, 2018, accessed January 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ Cindy Boren: Dolphins pull off wackiest NFL trick play of the year, a punter-to-kicker touchdown. In: The Washington Post . December 1, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020.
  6. ↑ Josh Houtz: Jason Sanders breaks single-game franchise record on thephinsider.com. December 9, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Sanders, Jason
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanders, Jason Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Orange , California , United States