Moritz Böhringer
| No. 81 Minnesota Vikings | |||
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| Position: | Wide receiver | ||
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| Date of birth: | October 16, 1993 | ||
| Place of birth: | Stuttgart, Germany | ||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||
| Weight: | 227 lb (103 kg) | ||
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| NFL Draft: | 2016 / Round: 6 / Pick: 180 | ||
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| Roster status: | Reserve/Future | ||
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Moritz Wilhelm Böhringer (born October 16, 1993) is a German American football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Vikings in the sixth round of the 2016 NFL draft. He is the first European player to be selected in the NFL draft without playing college football.
Böhringer played youth soccer in two local clubs in his home town Aalen. He says that he was inspired to play American football after watching a YouTube highlight reel of Vikings running back Adrian Peterson when he was 17. In 2010, the town had the fledgling Aalen Limes Praetorians and even a baseball team, but no opportunity to play American Football in a local junior team. Prior to being drafted into the NFL, Böhringer was majoring in mechanical engineering at Aalen University (Hochschule Aalen).
Böhringer joined the Crailsheim Titans under-19 junior team in 2011. In 2013 and 2014 he played for the Crailsheim Titans senior squad in Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. For the 2015 season, he moved to the nearby two-time German champions, the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns of the German Football League (GFL). Parallel to the national league regular seasons, some of the best European American football clubs, mainly from German-speaking countries plus France, compete for the Eurobowl in the BIG6 European Football League. Böhringer's first big game was the Eurobowl XXIX 21-14 loss at the Braunschweig New Yorker Lions in June 2015. The Unicorns placed first in the GFL South Conference, advancing to the playoffs which ended in another loss (41-31) to the Lions in German Bowl XXXVII.
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