Kelvin Benjamin
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| Wide receiver | |
| Date of birth: February 5, 1991 | |
| Place of birth: Belle Glade , Florida | |
| Height: 1.96 m | Weight: 111 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2014 for the Carolina Panthers | |
| Career | |
| College : Florida State | |
| NFL Draft : 2014 / Round: 1 / Pick: 28 | |
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| Current status: Free Agent | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Selected NFL stats as of week 17 of the 2018 season |
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| Captured passports | 209 |
| Captive yards | 3,021 |
| Touchdowns | 20th |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Kelvin Benjamin (born on 5. February 1991 in Belle Glade , Florida is) a US American football poker players on the position of wide receiver . He played college football for Florida State University and is currently a free agent . Previously he was in the National Football League (NFL) for the Carolina Panthers, of whom he was selected in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft , as well as for the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs .
Career
Early years
Benjamin was a student at Glades Central High School in Belle Glade, Florida, where he played football, basketball and athletics . As a senior, he was used in eight games, catching 30 passes for 551 yards and six touchdowns . His athletics disciplines were high jump and long jump , with his best values being 1.84 m high and 6.48 m wide. At the end of his school days he was, according to Rivals.com, the eighth best wide receiver of his year and decided on Florida State University and thus against offers from z. B. Auburn , Florida or Virginia Tech .
In his first season at FSU, he played in all 14 games in 2012 and caught 30 passes for 495 yards and four touchdowns. In 2013, he had 54 catches for 1,011 yards and 15 touchdowns and was named a first-team All-American by Sports Illustrated . After the season, Benjamin decided to forego two more possible years of college football and signed up for the 2014 NFL Draft.
NFL
Carolina Panthers
Although he entered the draft two years earlier than necessary, he was classified as a potential first-round pick and one of the best wide receivers available. In particular, its combination of size, speed, assertiveness and bounce has drawn comparisons to wide receivers such as Alshon Jeffrey or Plaxico Burress . The Carolina Panthers finally chose him as the 28th player in the first round, and on June 4, 2014 Benjamin signed a four-year contract for 7.66 million dollars .
After the Panthers let some established wide-receiver forces move on ahead of the 2014 season ( Steve Smith , Brandon LaFell , Ted Ginn , Domenik Hixon ), reinforcements were urgently needed. In the training camp Benjamin fought with the experienced Jerricho Cotchery for the post as the first stop of quarterback Cam Newton . In his first game in the NFL against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , he caught passes for 92 yards and a touchdown, and he was named Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week . During the season, he set Carolina Panthers franchise records for rookie receivers by catching a total of 73 passes for 1,008 yards and nine touchdowns. He was only the eleventh rookie wide receiver in the NFL with more than 1,000 yards of space gained by passing catches.
Before the start of the 2015 season, Benjamin injured his cruciate ligament and was out for the entire season. In the season 2016 Benjamin made his comeback. In the first two games of the season, he caught 13 passes for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs
On December 4, 2018, the Buffalo Bills released Kelvin Benjamin. On December 6, 2018, he joined the Kansas City Chiefs as a free agent . A year earlier, the Bills gave a third and a seven-round pick to the Carolina Panthers to secure the rights to Benjamin. With the Chiefs he was in three games on the field, in which he caught two passes for 26 yards. In the play-offs, however, he was no longer used, after the season the Chiefs did not extend his contract.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Glades Central Invitation milesplit.com, accessed October 13, 2015
- ↑ Profile Kelvin Benjamin (English) rivals.com, accessed on October 13, 2015
- ↑ Benjamin leaving FSU for NFL (English) espn.com, accessed on October 13, 2015
- ↑ scoutingreport kbenjamin (English) walterfootball.com, accessed on October 13, 2015
- ↑ recent news on kelvin benjamin (English) rotoworld.com, accessed on October 13, 2015
- ^ Austin Knoblauch: Kelvin Benjamin signing one-year deal with Chiefs. National Football League (NFL), December 6, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 (American English): "Buffalo traded a third- and seventh-round pick to the Carolina Panthers at last season's trade deadline to acquire the big-bodied receiver in hopes he could become a No. 1 target, but Benjamin struggled to adapt to his new AFC East team and on multiple occasions found himself in the headlines for reasons other than his play on the field. "
- ↑ Tim Weaver: Report: Giants to invite former Panthers WR Kelvin Benjamin to free agent workout on pantherswire.usatoday.com. July 26, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Benjamin, Kelvin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belle Glade , Florida , United States |