| Kansas Jayhawks–No. 9 | |
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| Position | Defensive end |
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| Personal information | |
| Born: | December 14, 2002 |
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Weight | 245 lb (111 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College | |
| Bowl games | |
| High school | Center Grove (Greenwood, Indiana) |
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Austin Booker (born December 14, 2002) is an American football defensive end. He played college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Kansas Jayhawks.
Booker attended Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana. As a junior, he had 67 tackles and eight sacks. He committed to the University of Minnesota to play college football. [1]
Booker played at Minnesota from 2021 to 2022. After redshirting his first year, he played in six games in 2022 and had two tackles. After the season, he entered the transfer portal and transferred to the University of Kansas. [2] [3] In his lone season at Kansas, he played in 12 games and had 56 tackles and eight sacks. [4] After the season, he entered the 2024 NFL draft. [5] He sat out the 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl in order to prepare for the draft. [6]
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | Vertical jump | Broad jump | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 ft 4+1⁄2 in (1.94 m) | 240 lb (109 kg) | 33+7⁄8 in (0.86 m) | 9+1⁄4 in (0.23 m) | 4.79 s | 1.67 s | 2.80 s | 32.5 in (0.83 m) | 10 ft 0 in (3.05 m) | ||||
| All values from NFL Combine [7] [8] | ||||||||||||
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