Ken Simonton
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| Date of birth | June 7, 1979 |
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| Place of birth | Pittsburg, California |
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| Position(s) | Running Back |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) |
| Weight | 201 lb (91 kg) |
| College | Oregon State |
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| 2002 | San Francisco 49ers |
| 2003 | Scottish Claymores |
| 2003–2004 | Buffalo Bills |
| 2004–2005 | San Francisco 49ers |
| 2005 | Detroit Lions |
| 2007–2008 | Calgary Stampeders |
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Ken Simonton III (born June 7, 1979) is an American football running back who last played in the CFL for the Calgary Stampeders after a brief career in the NFL and the NFL Europe.
Simonton was a two-sport (football and baseball) star for the Pittsburg High School Pirates. As a sophomore, Simonton rushed for 1,135 yards in 10 games on 105 carries for an average of 10.8 yards per carry. In his junior year, he rushed for 785 yards in eight games on 47 carries for an average of 16.7 yards per carry. For his senior season, Simonton rushed for 960 yards on 92 carries for a 10.4 yard average and scored 23 touchdowns. Simonton was a three-time all-league selection as a running back and he was also named all-league as a defensive back in his senior year. He was a first-team All-Northern California selection, a first-team all-region selection by the Contra Costa Times and was named Offensive Player of the Year in the region by Sports Focus.
Simonton played outfield for the Pirates baseball team and was all-league as a sophomore, junior and senior. He was listed in Parade Magazine in 1996 as one of the top 100 college baseball prospects in the nation.
Simonton always wanted to attend USC and was recruited to come to the Trojans by assistant coach Mike Riley. That same Mike Riley was hired as the head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football program in 1997. Simonton chose to follow Riley to Oregon State instead of going to USC.
In his freshman season (1998), Simonton had 1,028 rushing yards, only the second time a freshman running back had rushed for over a 1,000 yards in the Pac-10. He became the first freshman to ever rush for over 100 yards in his first game for Oregon State and then the first freshman to have back-to-back 100-yard rushing games. Simonton finished fourth in the Pac-10 in rushing with an average of 93.5 yards per game and was fourth in scoring with 78 points and 7.1 average points per game. In the final game of the season, Simonton scored the winning touchdown in overtime as Oregon State upset archrival Oregon 44-41. The Beavers named him a co-winner of their Rookie of the Year award.
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