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Position: | Wide receiver | ||||
Personal information | |||||
Born: | Deerfield Beach, Florida, U.S. | July 21, 1996||||
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||
Weight: | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||
Career information | |||||
High school: | Deerfield Beach | ||||
College: | Georgia (2016–2018) | ||||
NFL draft: | 2019 / Round: 4 / Pick: 126 | ||||
Career history | |||||
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Career NFL statistics | |||||
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Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
Cavin Riley Ridley [1] (born July 21, 1996) is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at Georgia.
Ridley attended Deerfield Beach High School in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He was a four-star wide receiver coming out of high school with over 13 offers, including those from Georgia, Alabama, and Auburn. [2] Ultimately, Ridley committed to the University of Georgia to play college football. [3]
Ridley played in 11 games as a true freshman at Georgia in 2016, catching 12 passes for 238 yards and two touchdowns. [4] As a sophomore in 2017, he had 14 receptions for 218 yards and two touchdowns. [5] As a junior in 2018, Ridley had 43 receptions for 559 yards and nine touchdowns. After the season, he decided to forgo his senior year and enter the 2019 NFL Draft. [6] [7]
Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | |
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6 ft 1+1⁄4 in (1.86 m) |
199 lb (90 kg) |
32+5⁄8 in (0.83 m) |
10+1⁄4 in (0.26 m) |
4.58 s | 1.57 s | 2.69 s | 4.28 s | 7.22 s | 30.5 in (0.77 m) |
10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) |
13 reps | |
All values from NFL Combine [8] [9] |
Ridley was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round (126th overall) of the 2019 NFL Draft. [10] He signed his rookie contract, worth $3.2 million over 4 years with a $682.5k signing bonus, [11] on May 13. [12]
During his rookie year, Ridley was active for just one of the first eleven games of the 2019 season: a Week 4 against the Minnesota Vikings. [13] Due to injuries to the wide receiver corps, he began seeing increased action starting in Week 13 against the Detroit Lions, [14] and caught his first career pass the following week against the Dallas Cowboys. [15]
He was waived during the Bears final cuts on August 31, 2021. [16]
Year | Team | Games | Receiving | |||||
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GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | ||
2019 | CHI | 5 | 0 | 6 | 69 | 11.5 | 32 | 0 |
2020 | CHI | 5 | 1 | 4 | 39 | 9.8 | 18 | 0 |
Career | 10 | 1 | 10 | 108 | 10.8 | 32 | 0 | |
Postseason | ||||||||
2020 | CHI | 1 | 1 | 2 | 36 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 |
Career | 1 | 1 | 2 | 36 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 |
His brother, Calvin Ridley, also plays wide receiver in the NFL for the Tennessee Titans . [17] [18]
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