Cedric Benson is a good RB in the NFL league!Below is some his brief information about him!
He is an American football running back for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears fourth overall in the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football for the University of Texa at Austin.
In his early years,he has achieved good results , leding his team to three consecutive State Championships, and rushing for a total of 15 touchdowns in the three championship games. Cedric rushed for more than 1,900 yards in only 9 games. He was the first high school player to ever make the cover of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football annual magazine. Cedric was also a center fielder on the baseball team. As a senior, in District 4-5A games, he hit .361 with 4 home runs and 14 RBIs.
In his college of The University of Texas at Austin,he continued his great performance in the football field!he received the Doak Walker Award as the nation’s top running back in 2004. He finished his college career with 5,540 rushing yards to rank sixth all time in NCAA Division I-A history, and second only to Ricky Williams in school history. Benson was a 2004 All-America selection.
In the college ,he had often been compared to Ricky Williams, due to their similarities in running style, college choice, legal complications and superficial appearance(roughly the same size and build coming out of college, and both had dreadlocks early in their careers)While attending the University of Texas, Benson majored in social work and sociology. During his latter years, he earned membership into the Texas’ Athletics Director’s Academic Honor Roll, and the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll in fall of 2003
In the 2005 NFL Draft,The Chicago Bears selected Benson as the fourth overall pick ,the highest drafted Bears player since Dan Hampton in 1979
Due to Thomas Jones’s medial collateral ligament sprain,after the 2005 season, the Bears considered making Benson the team’s feature running back after Thomas Jones was unhappy with his current contract status. The team’s plans went astray when Benson injured his shoulder after colliding with Brian Urlacher during a routine scrimmage. Although the injury was not serious, it placed Benson on the sidelines for a majority of the preseason.Although Benson fully recovered from his injury, Lovie Smith selected Jones as the Bears’ starter. Benson scored his first two touchdowns during week five of the 2006 NFL season, against the Buffalo Bills. In a game against the New England Patriots during week twelve of the 2006 Chicago Bears season, Benson collided with linebacker Junior Seau, causing Seau to fall down and fracture his forearm.]
Benson became the Bears’ secondary running back again during the playoffs. In the 2006 NFC Championship Game against the New Orleans Saints Benson scored a fourth quarter touchdown and totaled 60 yards. Though he was given a majority of the team’s carries, his counterpart, Jones, amassed two touchdowns and 123 rushing yards. In the team’s following game, Super Bowl XLI, Benson sustained a knee injury in the first half, and missed the remainder of the game.
Lovie Smith named Benson as the Bears’ starting running back after the team traded Thomas Jones to the New York Jets. Benson struggled throughout the preseason, but received enough support from his teammates and coaches to retain his starting position. He amassed only forty-two yards in his first regular season game and committed a costly turnover. However, Benson rebounded with a 101-yard performance during his next start. After several inconsistent games, Benson began to stabilize after the bye week. In one of his best games of the season, Benson rushed for eighty-nine yards and scored one touchdown on eleven attempts. He averaged 5.8 yards in his next game, but sustained a season-ending ankle injury. Benson, who had amassed 647 yards and four touchdowns, was relieved by Adrian N. Peterson.Jerry Angelo, the Bears’ general manager, has expressed interest in acquiring a new running back to revitalize the Bears’ running game, which finished last in yards in the league. Upon hearing the news, Benson commented, “You all know the competition that goes on around here. It doesn’t matter to me. Maybe somebody else can get some criticism.”The Bears drafted running back Matt Forté in the 2008 NFL Draft to provide Benson with some competition for the starting job. Benson was released by the Bears after the 2007 season on June 9, 2008, following his second alcohol-related arrest in five weeks.
Cincinnati Bengals
Shortly after the Grand Jury failed to indict him on both incidents in Austin, Benson signed a one-year, $520,000 contract with the Cincinnati Bengals on September 30, 2008. The Bengals’ roster opened up after running back DeDe Dorsey was placed on injured reserve. He originally backed-up Chris Perry. , beginning his season in the loss to the Dallas Cowboys, rushing 10 times for 30 yards. Cedric Benson became the starting back for the Bengals for the Week 7 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Benson rushed 14 times for 52 yards in his first ever career start as a Bengal, and ran over Steelers safety Troy Polamalu during a rushing attempt, giving the pro-bowler a concussion. In the following 35-6 loss to the Houston Texans, he totaled 49 yards on 13 carries and had two receptions for 20 yards. The Bengals picked up their first victory of the season in a 21-19 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. In the win, Benson had 24 carries for 104 yards and a touchdown. Benson hit his stride in the Bengals’ three-game winning streak at the end of the season, gashing the Washington Redskins in week 15 with 161 all purpose yards, including 88 yards receiving (79 of which came on a screen pass). In week 16, Benson dominated the Cleveland Browns, rushing for 171 yards. In the final game of the season against Kansas City, Benson had 130 all-purpose yards, including 111 yards on 25 carries. In the twelve games he was active during the 2008 season, Benson had 932 all-purpose yards, including 747 yards rushing and 185 yards receiving.
His career is becoming better and better,hope he can do more better and better in the following seasobns!He is a good RB!