DeShaun Foster, 2025
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Running back, UCLA, 1998–⁠2001

DeShaun Foster

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DeShaun Foster played running back at UCLA (1998–⁠2001). The Carolina Panthers took Foster in round 2, No. 34 overall in the 2002 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2001
First-team All-Pac-10
Drafted
No. 34
Round 2, 2002 NFL Draft (Carolina Panthers)

Honors

Team titles: Pac-10 champions, 1998

All-America: Sporting News second team 2001

Season by season, from Wikipedia

SeasonRushingReceiving
AttYdsAvgTDRecYdsAvgTD
19981166355.5101515010.02
19991113753.46171146.70
20002439303.811161428.91
20012161,1095.112912914.31
Career6863,04939575354

From the college statistics table in Foster’s Wikipedia article (DeShaun Foster, CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).

The teams in those years

Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2002
Height6′0⅝″
Weight222 lb
40-yard dash4.59 s
10-yard split1.62 s
Vertical jump35½″
Broad jump9′11″
Bench press20 reps
3-cone drill6.82 s
20-yard shuttle4.16 s

Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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