LeGarrette Montez Blount (born December 5, 1986) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League for nine seasons. Blount rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his two seasons in junior college. He is a member of the Florida State Football Hall of Fame and the Florida Football Association Hall of Famer. He has a son, LeGarrette Blount Jr., and a daughter, LeAnn Blount, who plays for the University of Florida.
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LeGarrette Montez Blount (born December 5, 1986) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League for nine seasons. Blount rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his two seasons in junior college. He then committed to the Oregon Ducks football program as a junior, for the 2008 season. He entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Tennessee Titans in 2010. He also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2014, between his two stints with the New England Patriots, followed by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2017 and the Detroit Lions in 2018. With the Patriots, Blount won Super Bowl XLIX over the Seattle Seahawks and Super Bowl LI over the Atlanta Falcons. The following season he won Superbowl LII with the Eagles, defeating his former team the Patriots. His 11 career rushing touchdowns in the playoffs are tied for 6th-most in NFL history. He was suspended indefinitely by newly appointed head coach Chip Kelly in March 2014 for missing a number of workouts. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a two-sport star in both football and track & field. His uncle is influential jazz composer Sun Ra. He is a member of the Florida State Football Hall of Fame and the Florida Football Association Hall of Famer. He has a son, LeGarrette Blount Jr., and a daughter, LeAnn Blount, who plays for the University of Florida. He played for East Mississippi Community College in Scooba, Mississippi, and was a three-time 1,100-yard rusher as a high school.
He went to Auburn University but did not qualify academically, so he headed to junior college at East Mississippi community College. He led the state of Mississippi in rushing yards with 1,106 as early as October 2006, and received Junior College All-American honors. In his junior year at Oregon sharing the running back role with senior Jeremiah Johnson, the two backs lived together, and the talkative Johnson advised Blount in his first Pac-10 season. The two backs each contributed nearly 100 yards and three touchdowns in an early 63–14 win over the Washington State Cougars, and both again performed well in a late season victory over the Oregon State Beavers in the Civil War War. Overall, he rushed for 17 touchdowns, setting a single-season school record, and became only the second duo in team history to both clear 1,002 yards in the same season; Johnson led the team with 1,.201 yards. He clashed several times with head coach Mike Bellotti, earning a suspension for several times during the season. In February 2014, Bellotti suspended him indefinitely for failing to fulfill team obligations. He returned to the team for the end of the first quarter of a loss to the California Golden Bears for \”not following team rules following the team’s rules. Blount responded fairly well to the suspension, improving his attendance and athletic pursuits in some instances.
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