Randy Gregory
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Randy Gregory at a 2014 Nebraska spring football practice | |||||||||
| No. 94 Dallas Cowboys | |||||||||
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| Position: | Defensive end | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | November 23, 1992 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Jacksonville, Florida | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 255 lb (116 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Fishers (IN) Hamilton Southeastern | ||||||||
| College: | Nebraska | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 2015 / Round: 2 / Pick: 60 | ||||||||
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| Roster status: | Suspended | ||||||||
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| Career NFL statistics as of 2015 | |||||||||
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| Player stats at PFR | |||||||||
Randy Gregory (born November 23, 1992) is an American football defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played college football at Nebraska.
Early years
Gregory was born in Jacksonville, Florida and moved eight different times.[1] He attended Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers, Indiana, where he was a two-sport star in football and basketball. In football, he had big numbers as a junior, posting 92 tackles, including 17 sacks. Following his senior season, he was ranked as one of the top 15 players in the state of Indiana. In addition to numerous scholarship offers in football, Gregory also attracted Division I basketball interest out of high school.[2]
College career
Gregory attended Arizona Western College from 2011 to 2012. As a freshman in 2011, he had 82 tackles and nine sacks. He missed the 2012 season due to a broken leg.
He committed to Purdue University, but was academically ineligible and decided to attend the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.[3][4] In his first year at Nebraska, he started 10 of 13 games, recording 64 tackles, 10.5 sacks and one interception that he returned for a touchdown.[5] His 10.5 sacks led the Big Ten.[6] He was named a first-team All-Big Ten and was Nebraska's Defensive MVP.[7][8]
Sporting News listed Gregory as their preseason number 5 player in college football for 2014.[9] For the season he had 50 tackles and seven sacks. He decided to forgo his senior season and enter the 2015 NFL Draft.[10]
College Stats
| Season | Tackling | Interceptions | Fumbles | |||||||||||||
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| Year | Class | GP | Tkls | Solo | Asst | Loss | Sack | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | FR | Yds | TD |
| 2013 | SO | 13 | 66 | 40 | 26 | 19.0 | 10.5 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | JR | 11 | 54 | 23 | 31 | 10.0 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NCAA Total | 24 | 120 | 63 | 57 | 29.0 | 17.5 | 2 | 33 | 0 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Professional career
2015 NFL Draft
| Ht | Wt | Arm length | Hand size | 40-yd dash | 10-yd split | 20-yd split | 20-ss | 3-cone | Vert | Broad | BP | ||||||||
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| 6 ft 4⅞ in | 235 lb | 34 in | 10 in | 4.64 s | 1.61 s | 2.71 s | 4.23 s | 6.80 s | 36½ in | 10 ft 5 in | 24 reps | ||||||||
| All values from NFL Combine[11] | |||||||||||||||||||
As early as May 2014, Gregory was projected as a high first-round selection in the 2015 NFL Draft by various mock drafts.[12][13][14] However, after failing the 2015 NFL Scouting Combine drug test for marijuana, he was looked over during the first round of the draft and fell heavily to the second round, until being selected by the Dallas Cowboys (60th overall).
Dallas Cowboys
Although he showed promise during preseason (3 sacks in 3 games) and in the season opener against New York Giants (3 quarterback pressures in only 18 snaps), he suffered a high ankle sprain in the fourth quarter that forced him to miss the next 4 games and held back his development going forward. He made his return to the field in week 7 against the Giants, however, it wasn't until the team's week 10 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that Gregory posted his first NFL tackle, making one solo and one assisted tackle in the game. He didn't have a sack during the season, but still managed 16 quarterback pressures (fourth on the team) and one tackle for loss.
On February 19, 2016, Gregory was suspended for the first four games of the 2016 season due to violating the league's drug policy.[15]
References
- ↑ Nebraska defensive end Randy Gregory is back in Jacksonville, where he was born
- ↑ Randy Gregory bio
- ↑ Gregory quite familiar with Purdue
- ↑ Huskers land defensive end recruit Randy Gregory
- ↑ Defensive end Randy Gregory was huge surprise for Nebraska this season
- ↑ Huskers' Pelini: Lots more in store for DE Gregory
- ↑ Abdullah, Gregory, Evans named to All-Big Ten first-team
- ↑ Nebraska defensive MVP: Randy Gregory
- ↑ Hayes, Matt (1 May 2014). "College football's Top 25 players for 2014: Rightfully QB-heavy". Sporting News. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ↑ "Randy Gregory to enter draft". ESPN. December 30, 2014.
- ↑ "NFL Events Combine Player Profile". nfl.com. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
- ↑ Brugler, Dane (May 11, 2014). "2015 NFL mock draft: Big Ten, ACC prospects lead the way". CBS Sports.
- ↑ Sobleski, Brent (May 11, 2014). "2015 mock draft: Jameis Winston slips out of Top 5". USA Today.
- ↑ Burke, Chris (May 13, 2015). "2015 NFL Mock Draft 1.0: Cedric Ogbuehi goes No. 1 overall to Oakland Raiders". Sports Illustrated.
- ↑ Archer, Todd (February 19, 2016). "Randy Gregory suspended 4 games for substance abuse violation". ESPN.
External links
- Nebraska Cornhuskers bio Archive copy at the Wayback Machine
- Dallas Cowboys bio Archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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