Tajae Sharpe

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Tajae Sharpe
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Tajae Sharpe (2019)
Minnesota Vikings - No. 11
Wide receiver
Date of birth: December 23, 1994
Place of birth: Newark , New Jersey
Height: 1.88 m Weight: 88 kg
NFL debut
2016 for the Tennessee Titans
Career
College : UMass
NFL Draft : 2016 / Round: 5 / Pick: 140
 Teams:
Current status: Active
Career highlights and awards
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Captured passports     91
Captive yards     1,154
Touchdowns     8th
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Tajaé Lamar Sharpe (born December 23, 1994 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American American football player on the position of wide receiver . He played college football for the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has been under contract with the Minnesota Vikings in the National Football League (NFL) since 2020 . From 2016 to 2019 he played for the Tennessee Titans .

college

Sharpe attended high school in Piscataway Township , New Jersey , and then went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2012 to 2015 , where he played for the Minutemen . In four seasons for the UMass Minutemen, Sharpe caught 277 passes for 3,486 yards and 16 touchdowns . In 2014 and 2015 he reached the 100-yard mark. With 111 passports captured in his final college season, Sharpe set the national record.

NFL

Tennessee Titans

Sharpe was selected 140th place by the Tennessee Titans in the 5th round in the 2016 NFL Draft . After a convincing performance in the training camp, he started his rookie season as a starter. He caught his first touchdown pass in the NFL on Matchday 10 in a win against the Green Bay Packers . He was used in all 16 games, ten of them as a starter. Sharpe started with 41 passes, including two touchdown passes, and gained 522 yards.

After Sharpe sustained an injury to his right foot in the last game of the 2017 preseason , from which he had previously been injured in the offseason, the Titans put him on the Injured Reserve List , which means that he was not used for the entire regular season.

In the following two seasons Sharpe could not quite build on the values ​​from his rookie season and each achieved about 300 yards of space.

Minnesota Vikings

On March 25, 2020, Sharpe signed a one-year contract with the Minnesota Vikings . The contract sum is one million dollars and can be increased up to 1.5 million dollars through bonus payments.

NFL statistics

season team Games Receiving Rushing Fumbles
GP GS Rec Yds Avg Lng TD Att Yds Avg Lng TD Fum Lost
2016 Tennessee Titans 16 10 41 522 12.7 34T 2 1 1 1.0 1 0 0 0
2017 Tennessee Titans no action due to injury
2018 Tennessee Titans 16 13 26th 316 12.2 28 2 1 16 16.0 16 0 0 0
2019 Tennessee Titans 15th 6th 25th 329 13.2 47 4th - - - - - 0 0
Total 47 29 92 1,167 12.7 47 8th 2 17th 8.5 16 0 0 0
Source: NFL.com

Web links

Commons : Tajaé Sharpe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ College statistics on sports-reference.com. Retrieved on August 15, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Braulio Perez: NFL Draft 2016: Tennessee Titans take Piscataway alum Tajae Sharpe: A closer look (Photos) on nj.com. April 30, 2016, accessed August 15, 2020.
  3. ↑ In His Words: Tajae's First NFL Career Touchdown on the Tennessee Titans website. Retrieved on August 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ Justin Graver: Why Tajae Sharpe is Not Getting Cut by the Titans on musiccitymiracles.com. August 21, 2017, accessed on August 15, 2020.
  5. ↑ Cameron Wolfe: Titans place Tajae Sharpe on IR on espn.com. September 2, 2017, accessed August 15, 2020.
  6. ↑ a b Kevin Patra: Minnesota Vikings signing wideout Tajae Sharpe on nfl.com. March 25, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020.
  7. ↑ Career statistics on nfl.com. Retrieved on August 21, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Sharpe, Tajae
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sharpe, Tajaé Lamar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey