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Position | Wide receiver |
Class | Senior |
Major | Integrative General Studies |
Personal information | |
Born: | [1] | February 18, 2002
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Weight | 208 lb (94 kg) |
Career history | |
College | |
Bowl games | |
High school | McEachern (Powder Springs, Georgia) |
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Javon Baker (born February 18, 2002) [1] is an American football wide receiver. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and UCF Knights.
Baker attended McEachern High School in Powder Springs, Georgia. He had 58 receptions for 629 yards and 11 touchdowns as a senior and had 1,105 receiving yards and eight touchdowns as a junior. He was selected to play in the 2020 All-American Bowl. Baker committed to the University of Alabama to play college football. [2]
Baker played at Alabama in 2020 and 2021. Over 21 games in two seasons he had nine receptions for 116 yards and one touchdown. After the 2021 season, Baker entered the transfer portal. He originally committed to transfer to the University of Kentucky before switching to the University of Central Florida (UCF). [3] [4] [5] In his first season at UCF in 2022, Baker started 13 of 14 games and had 56 receptions for 796 yards and five touchdowns. As a senior in 2023, he was named first team All-Big 12 after recording 52 receptions for 1,139 yards and seven touchdowns. [6] After the season, Baker entered the 2024 NFL draft. [7]
Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | Vertical jump | Broad jump | ||||
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6 ft 1+1⁄4 in (1.86 m) | 202 lb (92 kg) | 32+1⁄4 in (0.82 m) | 9+5⁄8 in (0.24 m) | 4.54 s | 1.58 s | 2.65 s | 37.0 in (0.94 m) | 10 ft 1 in (3.07 m) | ||||
All values from NFL Combine [8] [9] |
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