Kyle Long

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Kyle Long
Kyle long.jpg
Kyle Long, 2014
Positions:
Offensive Tackle , Guard 		Jersey number (s):
75
born on December 5, 1988
Career information
Active : 2013 - 2019
NFL Draft : 2013 / Round: 1 / Pick: 20th
College : Oregon
Teams
Career statistics
Games     77
as a starter     76
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards
  • 3 × Pro Bowl ( 2013 -2015)
  • USA Today High School All-American (2007)
  • Pro Football Focus All-Rookie Team (2013)
  • NFL.com All-Rookie Team (2013)

Kyle Howard Long (born December 5, 1988 in Ivy , Virginia ) is a former American American football poker players on the position of offensive tackles and guards . He played for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League (NFL) from 2013 to 2019 and was elected to the Pro Bowl three times .

Career

Early years

While Kyle Long attended St. Anne's-Belfield School in Charlottesville , Virginia, he played both American football and baseball . In 2008 he was selected in the MLB Draft by the Chicago White Sox in the 23rd round. However, he did not sign a contract and went to Florida State University .

College football

Long left Florida State University in January 2009 for academic reasons. After his performance slumped, he and his family decided it would be better if he could find a place closer to where he lived.

From 2010 he attended Saddleback College and began playing as a defensive end there. In his first season he achieved 16 tackles and one sack .

After he was transferred to the position of offensive guard in 2011, he decided on December 18 to play for the Oregon Ducks of the University of Oregon and moved to college.

In the 2012 season he started in ten of the twelve season games. He applied to the NCAA for permission to play college football for another year , but the NCAA declined his request.

National Football League

Long was selected by the Chicago Bears as the 20th player in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft . He was the first guard since 1960 that the Bears selected in the first round.

On May 17, 2013, Long signed his contract, becoming the last Bears drafted player to do so.

Long attended the Bears training camp from May 10th through May 12th. Due to a rule of the NFL, however, he had to skip a large part of the preparation. The rule states that rookies are not allowed to train until their class has graduated from college.

Long started on Matchday 1 in the game against the Cincinnati Bengals on the position of the right guards. He was the first rookie in the Super Bowl era to play the first game of the season for the Bears in this position as a starter.

In his first season, Long played all 16 season games from the start. He delivered good performances, which were recognized, among other things, with his Pro Bowl participation. Nonetheless, his team only achieved second place in the division with a score of 8: 8 and was unable to qualify for the play-offs with a wild card .

For the 2015 season, he moved from the position of guard to tackle.

On September 7, 2016, his contract was extended by four years.

After numerous injuries, Long announced his retirement on January 6, 2020.

Private

Kyle Long is the son of Hall of Famers Howie Long and the brother of Chris Long , who won the Super Bowl with both the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles .

Web links

Commons : Kyle Long  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chicago White Sox Draft Kyle Long . Newsplex.com. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  2. ^ Kyle Long to leave Florida State . Dailyprogress.com. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  3. ^ Kyle Long commits to Oregon . Dailyprogress.com. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  4. ^ NCAA denies Oregon OG Long's appeal . ESPN.com. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ Chicago Bears select Oregon OT Kyle Long with the 20th overall pick . Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  6. ↑ Who was last guard Bears picked in first round? Retrieved April 24, 2019 . Chicagobears.com.
  7. ^ Bears Sign Four-Year Deal With Draft Pick Kyle Long . CBS Chicago. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  8. ^ Long thrilled to rejoin fellow rookies at Halas Hall ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Chicagobears.com. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  9. ^ Kyle Long focusing on task at hand . Retrieved April 24, 2019 . Chicagobears.com.
  10. ↑ Larry Mayer: Long inks new deal through 2021. Chicago Bears, September 7, 2016, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Jeff Kerr: Kyle Long announces surprise retirement at age 31 after seven seasons with Bears on cbssports.com. January 6, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Long, Kyle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Long, Kyle Howard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivy , Virginia , United States