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#35 Samkon Gado

PositionHB
DOB11/13/82
Height5-10
Weight227
CollegeLiberty
NFL Exp.4




PRO: Fourth-year player has career totals of 254 rushes for 946 yards with 11 touchdowns in 26 career games with eight starts...has added 40 catches for 267 yards with one touchdown...best season came in rookie year in 2005 when he rushed 143 times for 582 yards with six touchdowns and added one receiving touchdown...named to USA Today’s All-Joe team in 2005...earned NFL Player fo the Week, NFL Rookie of the Week and NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors for three-touchdown performance at Atlanta (11/13/05)...earned second NFC Rookie of the Week award after rushing for a career-high 171 yards with one touchdown vs. Detroit (12/11/05).

2008 SEASON: Signed by the Rams as a free agent (11/4)…played in one game and was inactive for one contest with St. Louis…rushed two times for 4 yards...released (11/19).

2007 SEASON: Spent time with Houston and Miami...played three games for Houston, totaling 18 rushes for 46 yards and one touchdown...released by Houston (10/23)...assigned via waivers to Miami (10/30)...played in five games with two starts for Miami...recorded 35 rushes for 104 yards with three touchdowns...at Buffalo (12/9): Made his first start for the Dolphins...rushed 12 times for 52 yards with two touchdowns...added two receptions for 41 yards.

2006 SEASON: Played in nine total games, eight with Houston and one with Green Bay...began the season with Green Bay before being traded to Houston in exchange for RB Vernand Morency (9/13)...finished the season with 54 rushes for 217 yards with one touchdown…at Indianapolis (9/17): Made debut for Houston...rushed three times for 36 yards, adding one catch for three yards…vs. Buffalo (11/19): Rushed 10 times for 69 yards and his first touchdown of the season...added five catches for 30 yards.

2005 SEASON: Spent time on the Kansas City Chiefs practice squad and the Green Bay Packers practice squad before being promoted to Green Bay’s active roster, playing in eight games with five starts...inactive for the final two games of the season due to a knee injury...rushed 143 times for 582 yards with six touchdowns...added 10 receptions for 77 yards with a touchdown...his six rushing touchdowns tied NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Carnell “Cadillac” Williams for the NFL lead among rookies...named to USA Today’s All-Joe team...at Cincinnati (10/30): Made NFL debut...rushed one time for 8 yards…at Atlanta (11/13): Made his first NFL start on his 23rd birthday...scored all three of Green Bay’s touchdowns in a Packers’ win...posted 103 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries...caught four passes for 5 yards and a touchdown…earned NFL Player of the Week, NFL Rookie of the Week and NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors for performance...vs. Detroit (12/11): Broke the Packers’ single-game rookie rushing record with 171 yards on 29 carries with one touchdown...earned second NFC Rookie of the Week award.

Played in 39 career games with two starts at Liberty…career totals of 273 carries for 1,631 yards with 16 touchdowns...added 38 receptions for 486 yards with six touchdowns…recorded a career-high 901 yards on 138 attempts with a team-leading 11 touchdowns as a senior...first-team All-Big South Conference selection…earned Academic All-Conference honors with a 3.66 GPA in health promotions, in addition to being a member of the university’s honors program...holds a degree in health promotions.
Four-sport letterwinner (football, track, soccer and basketball) at Ben Lippen High School in Columbia, S.C…twice earned All-Area, All-Region and All-State honors in football…father, Jeremiah, left Nigeria in 1990 to study at a South Carolina Bible college, Columbia International University, and his family, including then-nine-year-old Samkon and four sisters, joined the elder Gado in the United States a year later…holds aspirations of one day becoming a medical missionary in his native Nigeria upon completion of his football career...he would like to practice eye surgery, orthopedics or tropical medicine.



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