Linval Joseph

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Linval Joseph
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Linval Joseph 2012
Los Angeles Chargers - No.
Defensive tackle
Date of birth: October 10, 1988
Place of birth: Saint Croix , US Virgin Islands
Height: 1.93 m Weight: 149 kg
NFL debut
2010 for the New York Giants
Career
College : East Carolina University
NFL Draft : 2010 / Round: 2 / Pick: 46
 Teams:
Career highlights and awards
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Tackles     525
Sacks     24.0
Forced fumbles     8th
Touchdowns     1
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Linval Joseph Clement (* 10. October 1988 in Saint Croix , US Virgin Islands ) is a US American football poker players. He plays in the National Football League (NFL) as the defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Chargers . From 2014 to 2019 he played for the Minnesota Vikings . He was previously under contract with the New York Giants , with whom he won the Super Bowl XLVI .

college

Joseph, who showed great athletic talent at an early age - he also did athletics and weightlifting during high school - attended East Carolina University and successfully played college football for their team, the Pirates, between 2007 and 2009 , playing 41 games Put 143 tackles , scored 6.5 sacks and defended two passes.

NFL

New York Giants

At the 2010 NFL Draft , he was selected in the second round as a total of 46th by the New York Giants and was only used in six games in his rookie season. In the 2011 season he was able to establish himself as a starter and showed consistently good performances. He was even able to win the Super Bowl XLVI with his team against the New England Patriots 21:17. In 2012 and 2013 he ran in 31 games for the Giants as a starter.

Minnesota Vikings

In March 2014 he signed with the Minnesota Vikings a five-year contract in the amount of 31.5 million US dollars . With his new team he also showed consistently good performances from the start. In 2015 he was only able to play 12 games due to an injury. In 2016, Joseph was first called to the Pro Bowl . The second appointment took place in the 2017 season .

He was released from the Vikings on March 13, 2020.

Los Angeles Chargers

On March 18, 2020, Linval joined the Los Angeles Chargers for two years .

Web links

Commons : Linval Joseph  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ College statistics on pro-football-reference.com, accessed May 7, 2017
  2. ^ Report on nfl.com from March 11th, accessed on May 7th 2017
  3. Statistics on pro-football-reference.com. Accessed April 11, 2019 .
  4. Jeremy Bergman: Vikings release veteran CB Xavier Rhodes on nfl.com. March 13, 2020, accessed on March 13, 2020.
  5. Joseph Zucker: Report: Ex-Vikings DT Linval Joseph, Chargers Agree to 2-Year, $ 17M Contract on bleacherreport.com. March 18, 2020, accessed on March 26, 2020.