Shaquem Griffin

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Shaquem Griffin
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Griffin 2017
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Linebacker
Date of birth: July 20, 1995
Place of birth: Saint Petersburg , Florida
Height: 1.83 m Weight: 103 kg
NFL debut
2018 for the Seattle Seahawks
Career
College : Central Florida
NFL Draft : 2018 / Round: 5 / Pick: 141
 Teams:
Current status: Active
Career highlights and awards
  • AAC Defensive Player of the Year (2016)
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Tackles     16
Sacks     0
Interceptions     0
Forced fumbles     0
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Shaquem Alphonso Griffin (* 20th July 1995 in Saint Petersburg , Florida ) is an American American football poker players on the position of the linebackers . He played college football for the University of Central Florida and has been with the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League (NFL) since 2018 . He became known as the first one-handed player in the NFL.

Early years

Shaquem Griffin was born on July 20 in Saint Petersburg , Florida , two minutes after his twin brother Shaquill . He suffered from amniotic ligament syndrome from birth . After he had already tried to cut off his left hand because of the pain, it was amputated at the age of four. Together with his brother he attended Lakewood High School in Saint Petersburg.

college

Griffin played football in college from 2013 to 2017 . He attended the University of Central Florida with Shaquill, who played as cornerback and had declined an offer from the University of Miami to play with his brother , where he played for the UCF Knights in the NCAA Division I FBS. After Shaquem one in his first season at the College Redshirtjahr had taken his brother finished the college one year earlier and was in the 2017 NFL Draft to the 90th place of the Seattle Seahawks selected so that the two first played separately.

NFL

In the 2018 NFL Combine , Griffin ran the 40 yard dash in 4.38 seconds, which is the best time a linebacker has ever had, and benched 20 reps with an artificial hand, which earned him some attention.

In the 2018 NFL Draft , he was selected in the fifth round in 141st place by the Seattle Seahawks , with whom his brother had played since preseason, where he signed a four-year contract, becoming the first one-handed player in NFL history.

At the Seahawks 2018 season opener against the Denver Broncos , he was the starting player due to an injury to KJ Wright .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seattle Seahawks twins Shaquem and Shaquill Griffin 'growing together' as they touch down in London on standard.co.uk, October 12, 2018, accessed on November 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Amputated professional is in the starting line-up of the NFL on welt.de, September 6, 2018, accessed on November 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ Seahawks draft Shaquem Griffin, reunite him with twin brother , Tampa Bay Times, April 28, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018.
  4. ^ Shaquill Griffin stuck by his twin; now NFL teams are catching up on nfl.com, March 21, 2017, accessed November 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ 'Us against anybody': Inside the bond between twin brothers Shaquill and Shaquem Griffin , Seattle Times, December 29, 2017, accessed November 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ Shaquem Griffin just ran the fastest 40-yard dash by a linebacker ever, and everyone lost their minds on sbnation.com, March 5, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ Seahawks sign fifth-round linebacker Shaquem Griffin on nfl.com, May 17, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Griffin, Shaquem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Griffin, Shaquem Alphonso (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Florida