Jahvid Best

Jahvid Best

Best in August 2009
No. 44
Position:	Running back
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1989-01-30) January 30, 1989 (age 28)
Place of birth:	Vallejo, California
Height:	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight:	199 lb (90 kg)
Career information
High school:	Richmond (CA) Salesian
College:	California
NFL Draft:	2010 / Round: 1 / Pick: 30
Career history
Detroit Lions (2010−2012)
Career highlights and awards
2× First-team All-Pac-10 (2007, 2008)
Career NFL statistics
Rushing yards: 945 Average: 3.7 Rushing touchdowns: 6 Receptions: 85 Receiving yards: 774 Receiving touchdowns: 3 Player stats at NFL.com

Jahvid Andre Best (born January 30, 1989) is an Olympic track and field athlete and a former American football running back. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at California, setting several school records, including most all-purpose yards in a single season and most rushing yards in a single game. Best also led the Pac-10 in total rushing yards in 2008. Best competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics, representing Saint Lucia in track and field.

Best attended Salesian High School in Richmond, California, where he played for the Salesian Chieftains high school football team. In his junior year in 2005 he had 1,495 rushing yards on 138 attempts with 20 touchdowns as Salesian won the North Coast Section championship to conclude a 12–1 season. In his senior year, Best ran for 3,325 yards and 48 touchdowns, both Bay Area single-season records. Salesian once again made it to the NCS finals, but lost in the final game to St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School of Vallejo.

Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Best was listed as the No. 9 running back in the nation in 2007.

Best ran track as well, participating in the Arcadia Invitational in his junior and senior years. As a junior, he won the 100 meter dash with a time of 10.36 seconds with an injured foot. At the 2006 CIF California State Meet, he finished third in the 200 metres behind Bryshon Nellum and Devin Mays. As a senior, he won the Arcadia Invitational 200 meter dash with a time of 21.40 seconds. Also during his senior year, Best won the CIF California State Meet 100 meters with a discounted wind assisted (2.4 m/s) time of 10.31, ahead of Charles Saseun and Randall Carroll. In the 200 metres, Best was runner-up (20.65) to Nellum (20.43), both far ahead of the competition. Best finished his senior season with personal bests of 10.31 and 20.65, the 5th and 2nd fastest times in the nation respectively.