Travis Etienne
Clemson Tigers – No. 9 | |
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Position | Running back |
Class | Junior |
Major | Sports Communication |
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Born: | Jennings, Louisiana | January 26, 1999
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
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Bowl games | |
High school | Jennings (Jennings, Louisiana) |
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Travis Etienne Jr. (AY-chien[1]) (born January 26, 1999) is an American football running back for the Clemson Tigers.
Early years
Etienne attended Jennings High School in Jennings, Louisiana. As a senior, he rushed for 2,459 yards with 39 touchdowns.[2] For his career, he had 8,864 total yards with 115 total touchdowns.[3] He was rated as a four star recruit and the 15th highest rated running back recruit in the country by the 247Sports.com Composite, which aggregates the ratings of the major recruiting services.[4] Etienne committed to Clemson University to play college football on January 21, 2017.[5][6] Etienne is of Louisiana Creole ancestry.
College career
2017
As a freshman at Clemson in 2017, Etienne led the team in rushing with 766 yards on 107 carries with 13 touchdowns.[7][8][9]
2018
As a sophomore in 2018, he was a key member of a Clemson team that won the national championship. Etienne rushed for 1,659 yards on the year and had an FBS-leading 24 rushing touchdowns. He had an additional two receiving touchdowns, bringing his total touchdowns from scrimmage to 26, which also led FBS.[10][11] Etienne was named ACC Player of the Year and ACC Offensive Player of the Year following the regular season.[12] He was named a first-team All-American by Sporting News and ESPN, and was a consensus second-team All-American.[13]
2019
Etienne started his junior year at Clemson with a career-high 205 yards and three touchdowns in the first game of the season.[14] He bested this in a November 2 game against Wofford, when he ran for 212 yards and two touchdowns on just 9 attempts (23.6 yards per attempt). He became the first Clemson running back to have three career 200-yard games.[15] At the conclusion of the regular season, Etienne was named ACC Player of the Year, ACC Offensive Player of the Year, and first-team All-ACC; all for the second consecutive year. He is the first Clemson player to win consecutive ACC Player of the Year awards since Steve Fuller in 1977–78.[16]
References
- ^ Renard, Brady (January 26, 2017). "Travis Etienne". Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ^ Oliver, Gavin (August 11, 2017). "Etienne's explosiveness jumps out at Elliott". The Clemson Insider. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Dabe, Christopher (December 31, 2017). "Clemson's Louisiana-born Travis Etienne comes home to face Alabama in Sugar Bowl semifinal". The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Travis Etienne, Jennings, Running Back". 247Sports.com. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
- ^ Hunte, Sydney (September 18, 2017). "Clemson football: Travis Etienne "glad" he choose Clemson over LSU". Dayton Daily News. Cox Enterprises. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Bewers, James (January 26, 2017). "Video: LSU target, Jennings RB Travis Etienne commits to Clemson, 'the real Death Valley". The Advocate. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Raynor, Grace (July 11, 2018). "Clemson football Top 10: What's next for explosive RB Travis Etienne?". The Post and Courier. Evening Post Industries. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Connolly, Matt (June 25, 2018). "What Travis Etienne did to earn Clemson's starting running back job". The State. McClatchy. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Louis-Jacques, Marcel (March 14, 2018). "Clemson RB Travis Etienne more comfortable in first spring, but still has a lot to learn". The Anderson Independent-Mail. Gannett. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Travis Etienne College Stats". Sports Reference. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "2018 Leaders". Sports Reference. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Clemson's Etienne Voted ACC Player of the Year". Atlantic Coast Conference. November 28, 2018. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Russo, Ralph D. (December 10, 2018). "AP All-America team: Tide leads with 4 of 10 CFP players". Associated Press. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Keepfer, Scott (August 30, 2019). "Travis Etienne's performance against Georgia Tech boosted his Heisman Trophy prospects". The Greenville News. Gannett. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "No. 4 Clemson routs Wofford 59-14 for 24th straight victory". ESPN.com. Associated Press. November 2, 2019.
- ^ Gillespie, Mike (December 4, 2019). "Travis Etienne named ACC Player of the Year again". ABC Columbia.