Sidney Rice

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Sidney Rice
Sidney Rice 2013.jpg
Rice 2013
Position (s):
Wide Receiver
Jersey number (s):
18
born September 1, 1986 in Gaffney , South Carolina
Career information
Active : 2007 - 2013
NFL Draft : 2007 / Round: 2 / Pick: 44
College : University of South Carolina
Teams
Career statistics
Captured passports     243
Captive yards     3,592
Touchdowns     30th
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards

Sidney R. Rice (* 1. September 1986 in Gaffney , South Carolina ) is a former American American football poker players on the position of wide receiver . He played with the Minnesota Vikings and the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League (NFL). With the Seahawks he won the Super Bowl XLVIII in 2013 .

Career

college

Rice was coveted by various universities and chose the University of South Carolina . In 2005 the wide receiver gained a total of 1,143 yards of space and 13 touchdowns . A year later he got ten touchdowns, five in the game against Florida Atlantic University alone , breaking one record and setting another. Overall, he ended his college career with 23 touchdowns and thus also claims the school record for himself.

NFL

The Minnesota Vikings selected Rice in the 2005 NFL Draft as the 44th player. He entered into a four-year contract. He celebrated his first touchdown in the NFL on September 30, 2007 against the Green Bay Packers . By the end of the season he gained 396 yards of space with 31 trapped passes . He also managed a 79-yard pass, the longest pass in Minnesota Vikings history that was not thrown by a quarterback.

For the 2008 season , Rice was already a regular. He scored a touchdown right on his season debut. Due to an injury, however, he had to sit out the next eight weeks. After his injury he was only second choice behind Bobby Wade , which is why he only came to a total of 141 yards with four touchdowns. In 2009 Rice fought for a regular place in the offense of the Vikings. He topped his own performance from week to week, which was mainly due to the well-functioning interaction with quarterback Brett Favre . He came up with a total of 1,312 yards of space this season and scored eight touchdowns.

Before the start of the 2011 season , Rice signed a contract with the Seattle Seahawks . On July 23, 2014, Rice announced his retirement from professional football.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Seahawks.com Blog: Report: Rice to sign with Seahawks (July 27, 2011)
  2. ^ Matt Fitzgerald: Sidney Rice Retires from NFL After 7-Year Career. In: bleacherreport.com. Bleacher Report, July 23, 2014, accessed July 24, 2014 : "Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Sidney Rice retired from the NFL on Wednesday after a seven-year career that began with the Minnesota Vikings."