Kareem Hunt Bio, NFL Draft Profile, Career Stats and Highlights

Kareem Hunt is an American professional soccer player who currently plays as a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs. Hunt is from Ohio and was born on August 6, 1995 in Elyria to Stephanie Riggins and Kareem Hunt. He has a brother named Clarence Riggins. He has a strong love for the game of football, which dates back to his childhood and which he expressed while attending South High School in Willoughby, Ohio, where he played with the school team.

As a junior he rushed for 2,519 yards with thirty-nine touchdowns and as a senior he had forty-four touchdowns for 2,685 yards. Rivals.com rated him a 3-star recruit and after high school he committed to playing college football at the University of Toledo. As a freshman, he appeared in twelve games, from three to eight hundred and sixty yards with one hundred and thirty-seven carries and six touchdowns.

During his sophomore season, he missed 3 games as a result of an injury that occurred in just ten games, despite missing a few games, he still ran at least 101 yards in each of the games he played. By the end of that season, he was recording 25 carries with 16 touchdowns for 1,631 yards. He was named MVP at the 2015 GoDaddy Bowl after rushing for 271 yards and 5 touchdowns in the game against Arkansas State that ended in victory.

Kareem was banned from playing the first two games during his junior season for violating team rules. He played Game 3 but would miss two games after that due to an injury sustained during the game. As a senior, he played all thirteen games leading in both rush tries and yards. His college rush records broke the school’s rush record set by Chester Taylor Hunt. He became the third in MAC conference history to achieve such a record.

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Kareem Hunt NFL Draft Profiles, Career Stats and Highlights

The Kansas City Chiefs selected Hunt 86th overall in the 3rd round of the 2017 NFL Draft. He was the sixth to come back in that selection and the first of the three players selected by his collegiate team that year. After injuring Spencer Ware’s knee, he was selected as the running back in the team’s 3rd preseason against the Seattle Seahawks.

His first NFL appearance was in September in a game against the New England Patriots. Though Kareem never messed around during his collegiate career, he screwed up his first professional appearance, leaving Patriots Devin McCourty to retrieve the ball. Regardless, Hunt finished the game a total of 246 yards, the highest ever in an NFL debut.

In December, he was included in the roster for the 2018 Pro Bowl as a rookie. He found his endzone for the third straight week in Week 16 against the Miami Dolphins, where he rushed for ninety-one yards and a touchdown. The following week he finished third behind Le’Veon Bell and Todd Gurley.

He currently plays for the City Chief. Below is a chart of how his NFL career stats look so far.

Other facts

Kareem Hunt’s mother, Stephanie, was an athlete, she ran distances through school, but the mother of two currently works as an independent healthcare provider in Lorain, Ohio.

The returning NFL currently stands 6 feet tall and weighs 200 pounds. His other body stats have not been confirmed.

Hunt has been in the headlines twice for non-sports related topics. In early 2018, he was on the news for assault charges. A nineteen-year-old lady had accused the RB of pushing her during an argument outside his Cleveland apartment. No charges were brought after friends told police it was the lady who actually used violence against the player. Four months later (June 2018), he was again accused of hitting a man at a resort in Put-in-Bay, a town on the island of Ohio. Again, no charges were brought against him.

Kareem is reportedly dating a lady named Julianne Orso. The two met as students at the University of Ohio and have been together ever since.

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