Shipley with the Bengals in 2010
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Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||
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Date of birth: | December 23, 1985 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Temple, Texas | ||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 193 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Burnet (TX) | ||||||||
College: | Texas | ||||||||
NFL Draft: | 2010 / Round: 3 / Pick: 84 | ||||||||
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Receptions: | 79 |
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Receiving yards: | 858 |
Receiving touchdowns: | 4 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Jordan Shipley (born December 23, 1985) is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons. Shipley played college football for the University of Texas, and received consensus All-American recognition. He was picked by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft, and also played for the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars.
Shipley was born in Temple, Texas. He played high school football at Rotan High School in Rotan, Texas as a freshman in 2000, and then from 2001 to 2003 at Burnet High School in Burnet, Texas, where his father, Bob Shipley, was the head coach. Shipley holds almost every high school career receiving record for the state of Texas, including career receptions (264), receiving yards (5,424), and receiving touchdowns (73). In 2000, in his first varsity game as a freshman at Rotan High, Shipley totaled 454 all-purpose yards and returned three punts for touchdowns.
With former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Stephen McGee, Shipley helped lead the Burnet Bulldogs to back-to-back Class 3A State Championship games in 2002 and 2003. Following his record-setting high school career, Shipley played in the 2004 U.S. Army All-American Bowl with fellow Texas Longhorn Frank Okam and current Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson.