Ricky Williams
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Position (s): running back |
Jersey number (s): 34 |
| born on May 21, 1977 in San Diego , California | |
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| Active : 1999 - 2011 | |
| NFL Draft : 1999 / Round: 1 / Pick: 5 | |
| College : Texas | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Yards in the running game | 10,009 |
| Touchdowns | 66 |
| cut | 4.1 yards per run |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams, Jr. (* 21st May 1977 in San Diego , California ) is a former American American football poker players in the position of running backs . He played in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven years and won the Heisman Trophy in college football .
Minor league baseball and college football
From 1995 to 1998 he played for the Philadelphia Phillies baseball farm team in minor league baseball . He played college football at the University of Texas at Austin , setting 20 NCAA records, winning the 1998 Heisman Trophy and Walter Camp Award .
NFL
The New Orleans Saints and especially their head coach Mike Ditka were so convinced of Ricky Williams that they gave their rights to their six players in the 1999 NFL Draft , and the rights to the first and third round in the 2000 NFL Draft the Washington Redskins gave up to select Williams as the only player in the draft in fifth place.
After three seasons he was switched to the Miami Dolphins in 2002 , where he played for two more years. On March 14, 2004, it was announced that he tested positive for marijuana in December 2003 . This earned him a penalty more than 650,000 US dollars and a lock for four games. Since he had repeatedly consumed marijuana in 2004, he withdrew from the game shortly before the start of the season in August and studied Ayurveda . The Dolphins then had one of the worst seasons in years.
He officially returned to the Dolphins on July 24, 2005, repaying part of his hand money. At a press conference , he apologized for abandoning the team shortly before the start of the season. After Williams was again convicted of drug use, he received a one-year ban for the 2006 season. In this he played instead with the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
For the 2007 season, Ricky Williams returned to the NFL and the Dolphins and played there for three years before moving to the Baltimore Ravens in 2011 . With the Ravens he managed, meanwhile only as a replacement running back, as the 26th player in the history of the NFL, to surpass the 10,000 yard mark.
Private
Willams is a vegetarian and supports the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). He has been diagnosed with social phobia and uses this to justify his cannabis use; this would help significantly better than the drug paroxetine .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Beacom: ProFootballWeekly.com - Rewind: Remembering the Ricky Williams trade. (No longer available online.) In: profootballweekly.com. October 20, 2010, archived from the original on March 19, 2014 ; accessed on November 30, 2013 (English): “Seems obscene, doesn't it? Eight picks (including two each in the first and third round) for the No. 5 pick. “ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chris Jones: Former Baltimore Ravens RB Ricky Williams has big plans for retirement - ESPN The Magazine - ESPN. Ricky Williams spent his career running from the stereotypical image of an NFL player. In: espn.go.com. August 13, 2012, accessed on November 30, 2013 (English): “He finished this part of his life with the Baltimore Ravens, as a backup but having become only the 26th man to rush for more than 10,000 yards over the course of a remarkable career. "
- ↑ espn.go.com/run-ricky-run , Run Ricky Run - official website. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Williams, Ricky |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Williams, Errick Lynne Jr. (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego , California , United States |