Rashaad Penny

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Rashaad Penny
Rashaad Penny.jpg
Penny at College (2017)
Seattle Seahawks - No. 20
Date of birth: February 2, 1996
Place of birth: Norwalk , California
Height: 1.80 m Weight: 100 kg
NFL debut
2018 for the Seattle Seahawks
Career
College : San Diego State
NFL Draft : 2018 / Round: 1 / Pick: 27
 Teams:
Current status: Injured Reserve List
Career highlights and awards

college

Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Running game     789 yards
average     5.3 yards
Captured     158 yards
Touchdowns total     6th
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Rashaad Armein Penny (* 2. February 1996 in Norwalk , California ) is an American American football poker players in the position of running back . He plays for the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League (NFL).

Early years

Penny has played football at the high school in Norwalk in California . In total, during his school days as an active player, he had 5,124 run yards and 103 touchdowns .

college

Penny has had offers from several universities for his achievements in school football, including Boise State University, which is renowned in college football . Ultimately, he chose San Diego State University .

At San Diego State University, Penny played for the San Diego State Aztecs in the Mountain West Conference from 2014 to 2017 . He was used there as a running back and return specialist . Penny's ultimate breakthrough came in his senior year at college, which he finished with 2,248 yards and 23 touchdowns . With this performance, he not only ran the most yards of the season in his conference in 2017, but also took first place across the NCAA , with Bryce Love running the second most yards . Penny also scored the second-most runner-up touchdowns in the 2017 NCAA season, with only Devin Singletary more successful in this category with 32 touchdowns. At the end of the season, Penny was named Mountain West Conference Offensive Player of the Year. He was also chosen as the third player in his college for the Consenus All-American .

College Player Statistics

year team Runs Rush Yds Rush TD Pass catches Rec Yds TD
2014 SDSU 2 22nd 0 - - -
2015 SDSU 61 368 4th 8th 120 1
2016 SDSU 136 1,018 11 15th 224 3
2017 SDSU 289 2,248 23 19th 135 2
total 488 3,656 38 42 479 6th

Source: sports-reference.com

NFL

NFL Draft 2018

Penny signed up for the 2018 NFL Draft and was given good chances of an early pick in the run-up to the draft due to his versatility as a running back and returner and his speed , even if it was suspected that he would only be on the second or third day of the Drafts would be selected.

In fact, it surprisingly turned out to be even better for him, with the Seattle Seahawks swapping the 18th and 248th picks back into the 1st round of the draft to pick Penny in 27th place overall. With Saquon Barkley , only one running back was selected before Penny. Even if this early pick from Penny was controversial, the Seahawks reported that they received exchange offers for Penny immediately after purchasing it.

Seattle Seahawks

Already after the first training camp of Penny with the Seahawks made head coach Pete Carroll realized that they had not nothing very early pulled him in the draft, but strongly encourage and challenge wanted him and did not exclude him in the game as a third-down running back to use . In the first week of the 2018 season , Penny made his debut in the NFL, although he only managed 8 yards in 7 runs.

Web links

Commons : Rashaad Penny  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e College profile ( Memento from May 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on goaztecs.com. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ NCAA 2017 Leaders ; sports-reference.com; accessed on October 14, 2018 (English)
  3. ↑ MWC OPOY 2017 ; sports-reference.com; accessed on October 14, 2018 (English)
  4. ^ Penny Consensus All-American ( Memento October 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ); mechanical.sdsu.edu; accessed on October 14, 2018 (English)
  5. ↑ College statistics on sports-reference.com, accessed May 15, 2018.
  6. ↑ Martin Senfter: NFL Draft 2018 Scouting Report: Rashaad Penny, San Diego State, RB. senfl.at, March 28, 2018, accessed on May 15, 2018 : “Rashaad Penny will certainly find his way into the NFL. As a returner he could immediately cause a sensation, as a running back in the rotation, too. "
  7. ↑ Scott Polacek: Seahawks Draft RB Rashaad Penny After Trading Down, and Twitter Is Stunned. Bleacher Report , April 27, 2018, accessed on May 15, 2018 (English): "Although Penny was a 2017 All-American and an impressive force at the collegiate level, many were surprised to see him off the board so early."
  8. ^ Scott Polacek: Seahawks GM Says He Got Rashaad Penny Trade Offers After Selection in NFL Draft. Bleacher Report , April 30, 2018, accessed May 15, 2018 : “The Seattle Seahawks selected San Diego State running back Rashaad Penny with the No. 27 overall pick in the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday, and general manager John Schneider said another team wanted to immediately trade for the playmaker. "
  9. ↑ Gregg Bell: After minicamp, Seahawks coaches sound impressed with Penny, Green, Flowers. USA Today , May 7, 2018, accessed on May 15, 2018 : "" We're gonna work real hard with his pass protection and make sure that he's up to speed there, "Carroll said of Penny. "We'd like to see if we can make him available to us on all three downs." "
personal data
SURNAME Penny, Rashaad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Penny, Rashaad Armein (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwalk , California , United States