Royce Freeman

Royce Freeman
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Freeman in 2014-15 Season
Position	Running back
Class	Junior
Major	Biology
Career history
College	University of Oregon (2014-present)
High school	Imperial (CA)
Personal information
Date of birth	(1996-02-24) February 24, 1996
Place of birth	Imperial, California
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	230 lb (104 kg)
Career highlights and awards
Rose Bowl Champion (2015) Pac-12 Champion (2014) First-team All-Pac-12 (2015) Second-team All-Pac-12 (2014) Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year (2014)
Stats at ESPN.com

Royce D. Freeman (born February 24, 1996) is an American football running back for the Oregon Ducks.

High school career

Freeman attended Imperial High School in Imperial, California, where he played running back for the Imperial Tigers high school football team. Freeman made his varsity debut as a Freshman against Southwest High School (El Centro, CA.) His second career carry was a 63-yard touchdown run. He finished his Freshman year with 225 yards on 26 carries and 1 rushing touchdown. Freeman's Sophomore year he ran for 2,075 yards on 162 carries and ran for 35 touchdowns. He also caught 14 passes for 153 yards and added 2 receiving touchdowns and returned 2 interceptions for touchdowns. Freeman's Junior year he ran for 2,482 yards on 201 carries and ran for 34 touchdowns. He caught 10 passes for 137 yards and had 2 touchdown receptions. Freeman's Senior season he ran for 2,824 yards on 256 carries and ran for 41 touchdowns. He also caught 8 passes for 116 yards and added 2 receiving touchdowns. He finished his high school playing career with 7,606 rushing yards on 645 carries (11.8 yards per carry) and ran for 111 touchdowns. Freeman also recorded 6 receiving touchdowns and 2 interceptions returned for touchdown (119 total touchdowns).^[1]

During his Senior season Freeman set 3 San Diego section career records. Against Calexico High School Freeman broke the career rushing record of 6,694 yards which was set by Ricky Seale of Escondido High School.^[2] The following week against Central High School Freeman broke the career rushing touchdown record of 105 set by Rashaan Salaam of La Jolla Country Day High School.^[3] In the final week of the regular season Freeman would break the career points scored record of 697 points set by Dillon Baxter of Mission Bay High School.

Freeman is the San Diego Section record holder for career rushing yards (7,606), Career rushing touchdowns (111), and career points scored (724)

Considered a five-star recruit by Scout.com, Freeman was listed as the No. 8 running back in the nation in 2014.^[4]

College career

2014 season

Royce Freeman came to Oregon as the highest rated recruit of the 2014 class. He immediately impressed coaches in practice and camp, and competed for the starting role with Byron Marshall and Thomas Tyner. All three men were listed as co-starters at the running back position to start the 2014 season. Freeman, the heaviest of the three, established himself as a "power back," an element missing in the Oregon offense since the 2008 season. He finished the season with 252 carries for 1365 rushing yards and 18 touchdowns, while having 16 receptions for 158 yards and 1 touchdown receiving. He even had a 26-yard passing touchdown to Quarterback Marcus Mariota in a 31-24 loss to the Arizona Wildcats. At the end of the season, he was awarded Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year.

Statistics

Career	Oregon	22–6	535	3,201	5.9	114.3	64 (TD)	35	17	34	374	11.0	33	3
			Rushing							Receiving
Season	Team	W-L	Att	Yards	YPA	YPG	Long	TD	100+ G	Rec	Yards	Avg	Long	TD
2014	Oregon	13-2	252	1,365	5.4	91	38 (TD)	18	6	16	158	9.9	30	1
2015	Oregon	9-4	283	1,836	6.5	141.2	64 (TD)	17	11	18	216	12.0	33	2

Awards & honors

2014

Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year (Pac-12 Coaches)^[5]
Pac-12 All-Conference 2nd Team (Pac-12 Coaches)

Records

Oregon

Freshman Rushing Yards, 1,353
Freshman Rushing Touchdowns, 19

High School

San Diego Section Career Rushing Yards, 7,606
San Diego Section Career Rushing Touchdowns, 111
San Diego Section Career Points Scored, 724

References

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↑ Royce Freeman Recruiting Profile
↑ "Pac-12 awards: Rich Rodriguez named Coach of the Year". December 2, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014.

External links

Oregon Ducks bio

Pac-12 Player of the Year winners

Overall (1975–1982)	1975 Muncie 1976 Bell 1977 Benjamin and Moon 1978 White 1979 White 1980 Elway 1981 Allen 1982 Elway and Ramsey

Offensive (1983–present)	1983 Pelluer 1984 Mayes 1985 Mayes 1986 Muster 1987 Aikman 1988 Peete 1989 Broussard 1990 G. Lewis 1991 Pawlawski and M. Bailey 1992 Bledsoe 1993 Stokes 1994 Kaufman 1995 K. Johnson 1996 Plummer 1997 Leaf 1998 McNown and A. Smith 1999 Walters 2000 Tuiasosopo 2001 Harrington 2002 Gesser and Palmer 2003 Leinart 2004 Bush and Leinart 2005 Bush 2006 Lynch 2007 Dixon 2008 Rodgers 2009 Gerhart 2010 Luck 2011 Luck 2012 Lee 2013 Carey 2014 Mariota 2015 McCaffrey 2016 Browning

Defensive (1983–present)	1983 Hunley and Rivera 1984 Bickett 1985 Walen 1986 Evans 1987 Cecil 1988 Wells 1989 Seau 1990 Emtman and D. Lewis 1991 Emtman 1992 Hoffmann 1993 Waldrop 1994 Fields 1995 Bruschi 1996 Chorak 1997 Tillman 1998 Claiborne 1999 O'Neal 2000 Archuleta 2001 R. Thomas 2002 Suggs 2003 Ball 2004 Cody and Swancutt 2005 Ngata and Robinson 2006 Hughes 2007 Ellis 2008 Maualuga 2009 Price 2010 Paea 2011 Kendricks 2012 Sutton 2013 Sutton 2014 Wright 2015 Buckner 2016 Jackson

Freshman (1999–2008)	1999 Kelly 2000 Suggs 2001 T. Johnson and R. Williams 2002 M. Williams 2003 Browner 2004 Miller 2005 Perry and M. Thomas 2006 Byrd, Mays and Verner 2007 Locker 2008 Rodgers

Freshman Offensive (2009–present)	2009 James 2010 Woods 2011 D. Thomas and Lee 2012 Mariota 2013 Jack 2014 Freeman 2015 Rosen 2016 Darnold

Freshman Defensive (2009–present)	2009 Burfict 2010 Onyeali 2011 D. Bailey 2012 L. Williams 2013 Jack 2014 Jackson 2015 C. Smith 2016 Rapp

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