Kenyan Drake

Kenyan Drake

Arizona Cardinals - No. 41
Running back
Date of birth: January 26, 1994
Place of birth: Powder Springs , Georgia
Height: 1.85 m	Weight: 96 kg
NFL debut
2016 for the Miami Dolphins
Career
College : Alabama
NFL Draft : 2016 / Round: 3 / Pick: 73
Teams: Miami Dolphins ( 2016 - 2019 ) Arizona Cardinals (since 2019)
Current status: Active
Career highlights and awards
College Football Playoff National Championship (2016)
Selected NFL stats as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Running attempts	456
Erlaufene yards	2.175
Captive yards	1.107
Touchdowns total	23
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Kenyan Drake (born January 26, 1994 in Powder Springs , Georgia ) is an American American football player on the position of running back and kick returner . He played college football for the University of Alabama and was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the 2016 NFL Draft . He has been with the Arizona Cardinals in the National Football League (NFL) since 2019 .

college

Drake grew up in Powder Springs , 22 miles north of Atlanta , and went to Hillgrove High School there . He then played college football from 2012 to 2015 . He attended the University of Alabama , where he played for Alabama Crimson Tide in the NCAA Division I FBS.

In total, Drake had 1,495 yards in 233 runs in four seasons and scored a total of 22 touchdowns . With Alabama, he won the College Football Playoff National Championship 45:40 against the Clemson Tigers in his final season , with Drake scoring a touchdown with a 95-yard kickoff return in the fourth quarter.

NFL

Drake was selected in the third round of the 2016 NFL Draft as the 73rd player and third running back by the Miami Dolphins .

After getting little playing time on his season debut against the Seattle Seahawks , he scored his first touchdown in the NFL on his second appearance against the New England Patriots . In Week 9, he hit the New York Jets with a 96-yard kickoff-return touchdown that led the Dolphins to a 27:23 win.

Drake went as the third running back the Dolphins behind Jay Ajayi and Damien Williams in the season 2017 . After Ajayi moved to the Philadelphia Eagles during the season and Williams injured himself, Drake was the new starter of the Dolphins from week 12.

In the 2018 season, Drake scored the game- winning touchdown in the last play at the so-called Miracle in Miami , through which the Dolphins were able to beat the New England Patriots with 34-33: Seven seconds before the end, Miami was on its own 31-yard line. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill threw a pass for 14 yards of space to wide receiver Kenny Stills . The ball got to Drake via two lateral passes , who ran the remaining 55 yards into the end zone for a touchdown.

After the 8th day of the 2019 season , he was exchanged for a five-round pick to the Arizona Cardinals . In the Cardinals' win over the Cleveland Browns in Week 15, Drake gained 137 yards in 22 runs and had four touchdowns.

Web links

• ESPN player card

Individual evidence

1. ^ College statistics on sports-reference.com. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
2. ↑ Alabama returns to top of college football with 45-40 win over Clemson on espn.com. January 12, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018.
3. ↑ NFL Draft: Dolphins select Kenyan Drake at No. 73 on 247sports.com. April 29, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018.
4. ↑ See Kenyan Drake score his first NFL touchdown on al.com. September 18, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018.
5. ↑ Rookie Kenyan Drake's 96-yard kickoff return helps Dolphins beat Jets. In: USA Today . November 6, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018.
6. ↑ Dolphins' Kenyan Drake: Set for lead back duties Sunday on cbssports.com. December 1, 2017, accessed December 11, 2018.
7. ^ Dolphins Shock Patriots With a Miracle in Miami. In: The New York Times . December 9, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018.
8. ↑ Brian Miller: Miami Dolphins essentially traded Kenyan Drake for Josh Rosen on phinphanatic.com. January 6, 2020, accessed on March 3, 2020.
9. ↑ Kevin Patra: Dolphins trade RB Kenyan Drake to Cardinals on nfl.com. October 28, 2019, accessed October 28, 2019.
10. ↑ Josh Alper: Kliff Kingsbury: Kenyan Drake had “pretty good timing” for four TD game on profootballtalk.nbcsports.com. December 17, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019.