Bobby Rainey

Bobby Rainey

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Rainey with the Baltimore Ravens
No. 33 New York Giants
Position: Running back
Personal information
Date of birth: (1987-10-16) October 16, 1987
Place of birth: Griffin, Georgia
Height: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight: 212 lb (96 kg)
Career information
High school: Griffin (GA)
College: Western Kentucky
Undrafted: 2012
Career history
Roster status: Active
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics as of Week 15, 2015
Rushing attempts: 249
Rushing yards: 990
Receptions: 51
Receiving yards: 377
Total return yards: 1,132
Total touchdowns: 8
Player stats at NFL.com

Bobby Gene Rainey, Jr. (born October 16, 1987) is an American football running back and return specialist for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He has also played for the Cleveland Browns and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played college football at Western Kentucky.

College career

In 2011, Rainey had 1,695 rushing yards and 17 total touchdowns while playing running back at Western Kentucky University.[1][2] In 2010, Rainey was one of the top rushers in College Football. He led the nation in rushing attempts (340) and was third in the nation in rushing yards (1649). He was named the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 2010 as well as earning All-American honors from SI.com.[3] In July 2011, he was named to the Maxwell Award Watch List.[4] In August, he was named to the Doak Walker Award Watch list.[5] In 2009, he totaled over 2100 yards and gained notoriety as one of the premier Kick Returners in College Football. His two official forty yard dash times were 4.42 and 4.45 respectively. He was also a member of the Western Kentucky Track & Field team.

Stats

Year Attempts Rushing Yards Touchdowns
2008 Fr. 35 240 1
2009 So. 144 939 6
2010 Jr. 340 1649 15
2011 Sr. 369 1695 13
Total 888 4523 35

School records

Rainey holds school records for WKU in rushing yards in a season (1,695) and rushing yards in a career (4,523). He is just the eighth FBS player since 2000 to rack up back-to-back 1,500-yard seasons. That list includes NFL running back LaDanian Tomlinson (TCU), and current NFL running backs, Ray Rice (Rutgers), DeAngelo Williams (Memphis), Darren McFadden (Arkansas) and Steven Jackson (Oregon State).

Professional career

Baltimore Ravens

Rainey signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent.

On September 10, 2012, he was released.

On September 12, 2012, he was re-signed to the practice squad and became practice squad captain.

On October 16, 2012, he was promoted to the active roster after the team placed Lardarius Webb on injured reserve.[6] Rainey never made it on the active gameday roster during the 2012 season.

On November 13, 2012, he was placed on injured reserve due to a knee injury.[7]

On August 31, 2013, he was released by the Ravens.

Cleveland Browns

On September 1, 2013, he was picked up by the Cleveland Browns after clearing waivers. He was released after week 7 of the 2013 season.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2013 season

In October 2013, he was acquired off waivers by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

He scored his first career regular season touchdown on November 11, 2013. It was the eventual game-winning TD in the Buccaneers 22-19 win over the Miami Dolphins, serving as Tampa Bay's first win of the 2013 season.

On November 17, 2013, Rainey had 3 touchdowns (2 rushing and 1 receiving) and 163 rushing yards in the Buccaneers' win over the Atlanta Falcons. Due to injuries to Doug Martin and Mike James he would finish his debut Buccaneer season as the teams leading rusher with 137 attempts for 523 yards and 5 touchdowns. He also had 11 catches for 27 yards and 1 receiving touchdown.

2014 season

On March 5, 2014, Rainey signed a one year deal to stay with the Buccaneers.[8] Despite terrible offensive line play, Rainey still compiled 94 attempts for 406 yards and 1 touchdown only second to Doug Martin. He also had 33 catches for 315 yards and 1 receiving touchdown.

2015 season

On March 10, 2015, the Buccaneers extended a restricted free agent tender offer of $1.542 million for one year to Rainey restricting him from free negotiating with any other and granting Tampa the right to match any offer he receives from other teams. He signed his one-year tender on April 24.[9]

New York Giants

Rainey signed with the New York Giants on April 11, 2016.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Player file WKU Sports
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ Sports Illustrated
  4. ↑ Maxwell Award
  5. ↑ Doak Walker Award
  6. ↑ "Ravens promote Rainey to active roster, Webb placed on IR". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
  7. ↑ http://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/article-1/Ravens-Roster-Moves/7551cf8f-db14-485c-8128-1271a3f483ba
  8. ↑ Smith, Scott. "Rainey Re-Ups with Bucs". Buccaneers.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  9. ↑ Wilkening, Mike (April 24, 2015). "Buccaneers re-sign RB Bobby Rainey". NBCSports.com. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ Eisen, Michael (April 11, 2016). "New York Giants sign RB Bobby Rainey, LB Kelvin Sheppard, OL Byron Stingily". Giants.com. Retrieved April 30, 2016.

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