The Arizona Cardinals Select “THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA’S HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER” QUARTERBACK KYLER MURRAY with No. 1 overall pick in 2019 NFL Draft.
Murray — a two-sport star at Oklahoma — became the first athlete ever to have been chosen in the top 10 selections of both the NFL and Major League Baseball drafts.
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Kyler Cole Murray (born August 7, 1997) is an American football quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He previously played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and Oklahoma Sooners. He also played as an outfielder for the Oklahoma Sooners baseball team. He was the 2014 Gatorade Football Player of the Year as a senior in high school, and 2018 Associated Press Player of the Year as a college senior at Oklahoma. Murray was the recipient of the 2018 Heisman Trophy.
The Oakland Athletics selected Murray with the ninth overall selection in the 2018 MLB draft. Following his Heisman Trophy-winning 2018 season at Oklahoma, he declared his intentions to enter the 2019 NFL Draft. He was selected first overall by the Cardinals.
Murray was born in Bedford, Texas, to Kevin Murray and Misun Henderson. He attended Allen High School in Allen, Texas. As a senior in 2014, he was the Gatorade Football Player of the Year. His team won three straight state championships and 43 games in a row. He missed one start during this streak and finished his career with a perfect 42–0 record as a starting quarterback.
Murray was ranked by ESPN, Scout.com, and 247Sports as a five-star recruit and the best dual-threat quarterback in his class. In May 2014, he committed to Texas A&M University to play college football and college baseball. He officially signed with them on February 4, 2015.
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NFL NO.3 DRAFT PICK, Quinnen Williams, DT, Alabama.
5 things to know about New York Jets No. 3 overall pick Quinnen Williams,
The New York Jets selected Alabama defensive lineman Quinnen Williams No. 3 overall in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday night. Here are five things you should know about Williams:
Williams is getting Aaron Donald comparisons
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There are some draft experts who think Williams is the best overall player in this class.
“You don’t see any plays taken off with Quinnen Williams,” said ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. “He’s got tremendous hand usage. He disengages and gets into that backfield. He’s the closest thing to (Aaron) Donald at the collegiate level as you saw this year. He destroys double teams, he hustles, he has great effort, he chases in pursuit. He may not be Aaron Donald, but those comparisons are more to Williams than maybe Ed Oliver.”
Outland Trophy winner
Williams won the award which recognizes the best interior lineman in the country. He became the fifth Alabama player to win the award, following in the footsteps of Chris Samuels, Andre Smith, Barrett Jones and Cam Robinson.
What’s impressive is that he was originally an edge rusher before being switched to nose guard in 2018, a new position that he thrived in. He gained 20 pounds leading into the 2018 season to make sure he was big enough to survive inside, and he studied tapes of Donald and former Bills tackle and Alabama star Marcell Dareus to prepare.
Williams was buried on the Crimson Tide depth chart his first two seasons playing for Nick Saban, but he exploded on the scene in 2018 once he switched positions. In his only season as a full-time starter, he finished with 71 tackles, 19.5 of which were for lost yardage, eight sacks and 12 QB hurries.
“The thing is, I didn’t get discouraged on not playing; I didn’t get discouraged on why I wasn’t as talented,” Williams said. “I focused on the future and what my hard work was going to become. To win this award, to get this notoriety I have now, just shows you it don’t matter where you’re at right now. It matters where your hard work is going to take you.”
Williams and his brother, Quincy, have a thing for sneakers and they reportedly have about 200 pairs between the two of them. Quincy played linebacker at Murray State through 2018. “We’re sneaker heads,” Quincy said.
As for his obsession with Oreos, which may be frowned upon once he gets to the NFL, “Yeah, I love Oreos, so I have to eat Oreos almost every day,” Quinnen said.
Williams lost his mother, Marquischa Henderson Williams, to cancer in 2010, and nine years later, he still struggles to cope with her passing.
“Quinnen took it the hardest,” Quincy told Sports Illustrated. “He was a momma’s boy, the one with the big heart. The only person he talks to, really, about it is me. When we do talk, I let him know every single time how proud she is looking down at us.”
Oakland Raiders 1st round NFL draft pick, and 4th PICK.
At a Coaches 4 Character event at Relentless Church in Greenville, SC, March 12, 2019, former Clemson football star Clelin Ferrell says he’s active in the “workplace.”
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Clemson defensive end Clelin Ferrell was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft.
Ferrell, who accumulated 50 tackles for loss in only three seasons at Clemson to rank sixth on the career leaders list in that category, will watch the draft unfold from home, surrounded by family and friends and ESPN cameras as well.
Here are a few facts about the Richmond, Virginia, native.
How do you pronounce Clelin Ferrell’s name?
Ferrell was too polite to correct the media throughout much of his career, but the true pronunciations of both Clelin and Ferrell came to light during the NFL Combine.
Let’s make it official: CLEE-lihn FUR-uhl
Not surprisingly, Ferrell in January was named recipient of the inaugural Tim Bourret Award, which recognizes the Clemson football player who best represents himself, his teammates and Clemson University in the media. Voting on the award was split into thirds, with one-third of the vote belonging to local media, one-third to the Sports Information staff and one-third belonging to Coach Dabo Swinney.
Dwyane Haskins #7 of the Ohio State Buckeyes throws a pass in the second quarter against the Northwestern Wildcats at Lucas Oil Stadium on December 01, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
DWAYNE HASKINS, IS THE 2019 NO.15 NFL PICK, THE NO.2 RATED QUARTERBACK IN THE 2019 NFL DRAFT, BEHIND KYKER MURRAY, AND IS THE PERFECT CHOICE TO BE THE FRANCHISE QUARTERBACK FOR THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS.
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Dwayne Haskins Jr. (born May 3, 1997) is an American football quarterback for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Ohio State University.
Haskins grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey and moved to Maryland when he was in ninth grade. He attended the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland. During his career, he passed for 5,308 yards and 54 touchdowns. He originally committed to the University of Maryland to play college football but changed to Ohio State.
College career
Haskins redshirted his first year at Ohio State in 2016. In 2017, he was the backup to J.T. Barrett. He finished the season completing 40 of 57 passes for 565 yards and four touchdowns. Entering 2018, Haskins was considered the favorite to replace the departing Barrett as the team’s starting quarterback after Joe Burrow transferred.
In his lone season as a starter, the 6-3, 231-pound Haskins, who went to high school in Potomac, Maryland, set Big Ten records with 4,381 passing yards and 50 touchdown throws.
Haskins went on to have a record-setting campaign in his Sophomore season. He claimed the single season passing and touchdown records for Ohio State and the Big Ten by eclipsing the 4,000-passing yards mark and throwing more than 40 touchdowns. Additionally, he claimed school records in total offense in a season (4,100+ yards), total offensive yards in a game (477) and total passing yards in a game (470). In all 12 of his 2018 regular season games, he threw for more than 225 passing yards, including eight games of more than 300 yards and four games of more than 400.
He threw for 499 yards and 5 touchdowns in a 45-24 win over Northwestern in the 2018 Big Ten championship at Lucas Oil Stadium.
His 2018 performance earned him six Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week awards, First team All–Big Ten honors, the Griese–Brees Quarterback of the Year award, Graham–George Offensive Player of the Year. He was also named as a semifinalist for the Maxwell Award and was one of three finalists for the Heisman Trophy. He is one of 6 players to achieve 50 passing touchdowns in one season. On January 7th, 2019, Haskins announced that we would forgo his remaining two years of eligibility and enter the 2019 NFL Draft.
“No adversity will ever break me,” Haskins told USA TODAY Sports over the weekend. “When you play quarterback, you have to have tough skin. The biggest thing I’ve learned – I knew it before this process – is that there are a lot of outside distractions. You just have to keep your focus.”
College Statistics
| Season | Games | Record | Passing | Rushing | ||||||||||
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| G | GS | Comp | Att | Pct | Yards | TD | Int | Rate | Att | Yards | Avg | TD | ||
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| 2017 | 8 | 0 | 0–0 | 40 | 57 | 70.2 | 565 | 4 | 1 | 173.1 | 24 | 86 | 3.6 | 0 |
| 2018 | 14 | 14 | 13–1 | 373 | 533 | 70.0 | 4,831 | 50 | 8 | 175.8 | 85 | 108 | 1.3 | 4 |
| Career | 22 | 14 | 13–1 | 413 | 590 | 70.0 | 5,396 | 54 | 9 | – | 109 | 194 | 1.8 | 4 |
