Jerick McKinnon with the Kansas City Chiefs
With the Kansas City Chiefs. Photo: All-Pro Reels from District of Columbia, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Receiver, Georgia Southern, 2010–⁠13

Jerick McKinnon

Hometown
Marietta, GA
Born
May 3, 1992, in Atlanta, Georgia

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Jerick McKinnon played receiver at Georgia Southern (2010–⁠13). The Minnesota Vikings took McKinnon in round 3, No. 96 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
125
Rushing yards, 2013 (Georgia Southern, 7–⁠4)
Drafted
No. 96
Round 3, 2014 NFL Draft (Minnesota Vikings)

Career highs

125rushing yards, career highat Florida, 20132rushing touchdowns, career highat Georgia, 2012

Team titles: Southern champions, 2011 and 2012

Rushing

Rushing yards, season by season, with his team’s record
SeasonTeamCarYdsAvgTDLong
2011*Georgia Southern5489.6026
2012*Georgia Southern191095.7224
2013*Georgia Southern912513.9166
Career332828.5366

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.

Per play

SeasonTeamPlaysEPA/playPctileMedianTotalUsage
2013Georgia Southern (FCS)1-1.05––-1.0–

Expected points added: how much the player’s plays moved the team’s expected score, per play and in total. Plays: total EPA divided by EPA per play, the plays the source credits to him (for a receiver roughly his catches and runs, not every target; for a passer, not every attempt), so it can differ from attempts plus carries. Percentile: against the position’s regulars that season across all divisions on file (quarterbacks with 150+ plays, backs 60+, receivers and tight ends 30+), with how many there were (n) and their median; a dash means too few plays to rank. A season in progress uses the full-season bar scaled by games played, never below 75 plays for quarterbacks, 30 for backs and 20 for receivers. The cohort grows or shrinks with the source’s coverage each season (2025 lists far more players), so compare percentiles rather than raw EPA across years. FCS seasons are marked. Usage: the share of the team’s plays the player was part of (shown from 20 plays). From CollegeFootballData, 2013 on.

Game by game

2013 Georgia Southern 1 game, 125 rushing yards, 1 TD
DateOpponentResultCarYdsTDLong
Nov 23atFloridaW 26–⁠209125166

No box score in the source for Aug 31 vs. Savannah State; Sep 7 vs. Saint Francis; Sep 14 at Wofford; Sep 28 vs. Chattanooga; Oct 5 at Samford; Oct 12 vs. The Citadel; Oct 26 at App State; Nov 2 vs. Furman; Nov 9 vs. Western Carolina; Nov 16 at Elon, so those games are not listed.

2012 Georgia Southern 1 game, 109 rushing yards, 2 TD
DateOpponentResultCarYdsTDLong
Nov 17atGeorgiaL 14–⁠4519109224

No box score in the source for Sep 1 vs. Jacksonville; Sep 8 at The Citadel; Sep 22 vs. Elon; Sep 29 vs. Samford; Oct 6 at Western Carolina; Oct 13 vs. Wofford; Oct 20 at Furman; Oct 27 at Chattanooga; Nov 3 vs. App State; Nov 10 vs. Howard; Dec 1 vs. Central Arkansas, so those games are not listed.

2011 Georgia Southern 1 game, 48 rushing yards
DateOpponentResultCarYdsTDLong
Nov 19atAlabamaL 21–⁠45548026

No box score in the source for Sep 3 at Samford; Sep 10 vs. Tusculum; Sep 24 vs. Western Carolina; Oct 1 at Elon; Oct 8 vs. Chattanooga; Oct 15 vs. Furman; Oct 22 vs. Presbyterian; Oct 29 at App State; Nov 5 vs. The Citadel; Nov 12 at Wofford; Dec 3 vs. Old Dominion, so those games are not listed.

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Played in the 2014 Senior Bowl (South team, won 20–⁠10).

DrillCombine 2014
Height5′8⅞″
Weight209 lb
Arm length30¼″
Hand size8⅝″
Wingspan72⅝″W
40-yard dash4.41 s
10-yard split1.55 sW
Vertical jump40½″
Broad jump11′0″
Bench press32 reps
3-cone drill6.83 s
20-yard shuttle4.12 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

8 seasons, 110 games with a stat; latest team: Kansas City Chiefs.

SeasonTeamGRecYdsTD
2014Minnesota Vikings11271350
2015Minnesota Vikings16211731
2016Minnesota Vikings15432552
2017Minnesota Vikings16514212
2020San Francisco 49ers14332531
2021Kansas City Chiefs9131071
2022Kansas City Chiefs17565129
2023Kansas City Chiefs12251924
NFL career1102692,04820

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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