Keith Kirkwood

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Keith Kirkwood
Carolina Panthers - No. 18
Wide receiver
Date of birth: December 26, 1994
Place of birth: Neptune Township , New Jersey
Height: 1.91 m Weight: 95 kg
NFL debut
2018 for the New Orleans Saints
Career
College : Temple
Not drafted in 2018
 Teams:
Current status: Injured Reserve List
Career highlights and awards
  • No significant events
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Pass catches     13
Yards     209
Touchdowns     2
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Keith Elliott Kirkwood (* 26 December 1994 in Neptune Township , New Jersey ) is an American American football poker players in the National Football League (NFL). He plays for the Carolina Panthers as a wide receiver . Before that, he was already under contract with the New Orleans Saints .

college

Kirkwood, who also played basketball in high school , first attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and played for their team, the Rainbow Warriors, college football for one season , with 4 touchdowns . He then moved to Temple University , for whose team, the Owls, he ran 1,638 yards and scored 12 touchdowns between 2014 and 2017 ,

NFL

New Orleans Saints

Kirkwood was not included in the 2018 NFL Draft , but was subsequently hired as a free agent by the New Orleans Saints and received a three-year contract worth $ 1.72 million . He went through the entire preparation process, did not make it into the regular team, but found a place in the practice squad . After several receivers, such as Ted Ginn Jr. and Cameron Meredith , were injured in the first half of the season and also the new acquisition Dez Bryant had to be put on the injured reserve list without having played a single game, Kirkwood was on 10. Activated November 2018 and added to the squad. He played 8 games in his rookie season, once he was even called up as a starter and was able to achieve two touchdowns. During the warm-up training before the second game of the season, Kirkwood sustained an injury, which meant that the 2019 season was already over for him.

Carolina Panthers

In March 2020, he signed a one-year contract with the Carolina Panthers .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ College statistics on sports-reference.com, accessed April 9, 2019
  2. ↑ Overview on spotrac.com, accessed on April 9, 2019 (English)
  3. ↑ Times-Picayune report of November 10, 2018, accessed April 9, 2019
  4. ↑ USA Today report of September 17, 2019, accessed December 18, 2019
  5. ↑ USA Today report of March 19, 2020, accessed March 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kirkwood, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirkwood, Keith Elliott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Neptune Township , New Jersey