Rex Burkhead

Burkhead in 2013

No. 33 Cincinnati Bengals

Position:

Running back

Personal information

Date of birth:

July 2, 1990

Place of birth:

Winchester, Kentucky

Height:

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Weight:

218 lb (99 kg)

Career information

High school:

Plano (TX)

College:

Nebraska

NFL draft:

2013 / Round: 6 / Pick: 190

Career history

Cincinnati Bengals (2013–present)

Roster status:

Active

Career highlights and awards

First-team All-Big Ten (2011)

Career NFL statistics as of Week 17, 2015

Rushing yards:	31
Rushing average:	2.4
Rushing TDs:	1
Receptions:	17
Receiving yards:	143
Receiving TDs:	1
Player stats at NFL.com

Rex Burkhead (born July 2, 1990) is an American football running back for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. Burkhead played in college at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Early years

Burkhead was born in Lexington, Kentucky, but was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. Burkhead attended Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas. As a senior he rushed for 1,762 yards and 28 touchdowns, leading Plano to a state semifinal appearance in the Texas 5-A football playoffs. He also played on the 2006 5-A Texas state championship basketball team as a freshman. He earned first-team all-district honors in basketball as a junior and senior, and as a freshman he was part of Class 5A state championship basketball team.^[1]

College career

As a freshman in 2009, Burkhead played in nine games, rushing for 346 yards on 81 carries with three touchdowns. As a sophomore in 2010, Burkhead was second on the depth chart behind senior Roy Helu. Burkhead played in all 14 games as the backup, and rushed for 951 yards on 172 carries and seven touchdowns. In 2011, Burkhead took over as the starting running back as a junior. Nebraska had little experience at running back that season, and Burkhead got the majority of the carries, including a school record 38 carries against the Iowa Hawkeyes.^[2] He ended up rushing for 1,357 yards on 284 carries with 15 touchdowns and was named a first team All-Big Ten selection.^[3] In 2012, with expectations high, Burkhead sprained his knee in the season opener and missed two games before re-injuring the knee four games later.^[4] Burkhead missed six games total in the season, but still finished with five touchdowns and 675 yards on just 98 carries for a 6.9 yard average.^[5]

He was considered the ninth or 10th best running back prospect for the 2013 NFL Draft in the top 150 overall.^[6]^[7]

He graduated from Nebraska in three-and-a-half years with bachelor's degree in history. He earned repeated scholar-athlete awards throughout his career, including first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2011 and 2012, and recognition as one of 15 National Football Foundation Scholar Athletes in 2012.^[8]

College Statistics

	Rushing					Receiving
YEAR	ATT	YDS	AVG	LNG	TD	REC	YDS	AVG	LNG	TD
2009	81	349	4.3	34	3	11	92	8.4	24	1
2010	172	951	5.5	33	7	15	148	9.9	31	0
2011	284	1,357	4.8	52	15	21	177	8.4	30	2
2012	98	675	6.9	73	5	11	92	8.4	25	2
Career	635	3,329	5.2	73	30	60	507	8.5	31	5

Professional career

2013 NFL Combine

Pre-draft measurables
Ht	Wt	40-yd dash	10-yd split	20-yd split	20-ss	3-cone	Vert	Broad	BP
5 ft 10 in	214 lb	4.65 s	1.57 s	2.59 s	4.09 s	6.85 s	39 in	10 ft 5 in	21 reps
All values from NFL Combine Preseason Stats: 9 carries, 52 yards. 1 tackle

2013

After being selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the sixth round of the 2013 NFL Draft, Burkhead signed with the team on May 13, 2013.

He played in all four preseason games, rushing 28 times for 130 yards with one touchdown, and five receptions for 39 yards. However, plagued by a hamstring injury all season, he was active for only one of the team's 16 games, making his NFL debut on November 10 playing on special teams in a 20-17 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.^[9]

2014

In 2014, Burkhead played in nine games for the Bengals, mainly on special teams. On offense, he had nine rushes for 27 yards and his first career touchdown (against the Cleveland Browns) and seven receptions for 49 yards. He had the most productive game of his career in the Bengals' opening round playoff loss to the Indianapolis Colts, in which Burkhead started at wide receiver and totaled three receptions for 34 yards and one rush for 23 yards.^[10]

Personal

Burkhead is married; his wife's name is Danielle.^[11] Burkhead was the 2012 winner of the Uplifting Athletes Rare Disease Champion award. He was awarded for his work with a 6-year-old suffering from a rare pediatric brain tumor called a low-grade glioma.^[12] Burkhead’s commitment to community service has been personified by his friendship with that child, Jack Hoffman, a cancer patient from Atkinson, Nebraska. Jack contacted Nebraska in 2011, asking for a Burkhead photo. Burkhead offered to meet Jack, and his involvement in their relationship led to national notice when he arranged for Jack to suit up in a Cornhusker uniform and “run for a touchdown” in the 2013 NU spring football game before a crowd of more than 60,000. President Barack Obama responded by inviting Jack and his family to the White House, and the family included Burkhead in its party. In honor of Jack Hoffman, Burkhead launched the Team Jack Foundation.^[13]

References

External links

Nebraska Cornhuskers bio

Cincinnati Bengals 2013 NFL draft selections

Tyler Eifert Giovani Bernard Margus Hunt Shawn Williams Sean Porter Tanner Hawkinson Rex Burkhead Cobi Hamilton Reid Fragel T. J. Johnson

Cincinnati Bengals current roster

Active roster	2 Mike Nugent 3 Keith Wenning 5 AJ McCarron 10 Kevin Huber 12 Mohamed Sanu 14 Andy Dalton 15 Mario Alford 18 A. J. Green 19 Brandon Tate 20 Reggie Nelson 24 Adam Jones 25 Giovani Bernard 26 Josh Shaw 27 Dre Kirkpatrick 29 Leon Hall 30 Cedric Peerman 32 Jeremy Hill 33 Rex Burkhead 36 Shawn Williams 37 Chris Lewis-Harris 40 Derron Smith 43 George Iloka 44 Jake Fisher 46 Clark Harris 47 Paul Dawson 50 A. J. Hawk 57 Vincent Rey 58 Rey Maualuga 59 Emmanuel Lamur 60 T. J. Johnson 61 Russell Bodine 65 Clint Boling 68 Kevin Zeitler 70 Cedric Ogbuehi 71 Andre Smith 73 Eric Winston 77 Andrew Whitworth 81 Tyler Kroft 82 Marvin Jones 85 Tyler Eifert 87 C. J. Uzomah 89 Ryan Hewitt 90 Michael Johnson 91 Marcus Hardison 92 Pat Sims 93 Will Clarke 94 Domata Peko 95 Wallace Gilberry 96 Carlos Dunlap 97 Geno Atkins 98 Brandon Thompson 99 Margus Hunt -- Darryl Baldwin -- Chykie Brown

Reserve lists	21 Darqueze Dennard (IR) 53 Marquis Flowers (IR) 55 Vontaze Burfict (Susp.) 56 Sean Porter (PUP) 86 James Wright (IR)

Practice squad	31 Terrell Watson 34 James Wilder 45 Trevor Roach 64 Dan France 66 Trey Hopkins 69 DeShawn Williams 84 Jake Kumerow 88 Matt Lengel

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