Sentences with phrase «one's rookie year»

Here are her tips for having a good rookie year.

There are countless professional athletes who had a brilliant rookie year and then were never heard from again.

A high draft pick at quarterback coming off a rocky rookie year?

I like reading about older kids and about the challenges of the first rookie year.

There are lots of rookies this year — tall ones, short ones, young ones and even a very old one.

He enjoyed a strong rookie year with 1,454 rushing yards and 12 total touchdowns, and the Bucs seemingly had a rising star on their hands.

(It's the explanation for why so many of their nominees are from rookies every year.)

A four - time first - team All - American and teammate of Matt Kuchar at Georgia Tech, Molder has spent a considerable portion of his early career on the Nationwide Tour, including a second stint following a poor rookie year on the PGA Tour in 2007.

Cleveland Browns runningback Trent Richardson has been having a stellar rookie year so far, and he has had a few magical touchdown runs already this year.

Bob Kalsu had just finished a stellar rookie year in the NFL when he chose to serve in Vietnam — and became the only U.S. pro athlete to die there

In McAdoo's rookie year at Buffalo, Ramsay kept the youngster at forward and somewhat under wraps through most of the season.

Mark Canha had a strong rookie year but then got injured and has bounced up and down to AAA and around positions on the diamond.

How they both had such great rookie years but how important it was for him to understand that teams were not going to let him just go through and hit their quarterbacks the next year.

After a promising rookie year in baseball and a spectacular NFL debut, Bo Jackson is proving he can do almost anything

He had a breakout rookie year in Cincinnati before stringing together three lackluster seasons in a row.

On the left side St. Louis will rely on able veteran Rodger Saffold at guard and Greg Robinson at tackle; Robinson, the No. 2 pick a year ago, had an uninspiring rookie year and will need to improve to avoid being labeled a bust.

I think if you told an average fan that Tyus and Bjelly were in our top five player they'd look at you the same way as someone would have looked at you if you told them at the end of their respective rookie years that Kevin Love was better than OJ Mayo.

In heaths rookie year he ran down Calvin.

Mathis, a 21 - year - old who played from South Carolina, had five goals and 10 assists as a Galaxy rookie this year.

HIs rookie year was rather fantastic, and he was a direct contributor to the Falcons first ever playoff win.

Jones charmed the city of Atlanta last season during his thrilling rookie year, and in»96 he should own the town.

As much as McDonough believes in Chriss, he's equally high on Bender, even after an injury - riddled rookie year limited Bender to just 43 games and 574 minutes.

If you're going to argue that he's hitting.500, I'm going to argue that he's whiffing more than Rookie Year Buxton.

I mean, if we're using PG as a comp since they're similar age, similar quality (Kawhi being a bit better when healthy, but the «when healthy» evens it out), one year left on current deal, we're probably looking at something like BogdanorBuddy (Oladipo) + JJ (early mid-teens pick in previous draft coming off mildly disappointing rookie year).

Back fromleft - knee surgery, which ended his 2005 season after only three games, Udeze isprimed to fulfill the promise he showed - a five - sack rookie year - after theVikings made him the 20th pick in the 2004 draft out of USC.

It was an ugly rookie year that folded quite seamlessly into a 96 - loss season for the Phillies.

His FG % has dropped, but that has already been talked about being because of what he is being asked to do now vs rookie year.

After missing his first two years recovering from a foot injury, Embiid broke onto the scene in his official rookie year.

Markanin has had a tremendous rookie year perfect stretch big in today's NBA and a capable rebounder.

That creates a vicious spring for the new class of WNBA rookies every year.

The AFC South dominates the Offensive Rookie Year prop, with three of the top four candidates coming from within the division (McCaffrey is the other at +350).

As for our marriage, after going through a twin pregnancy and the twin parent rookie years, I feel like there is little life can throw at me and Jon that we can't tackle together.

If you're in that position now or have some new salespeople who are, read these first - person accounts of how your comrades in arms survived those hungry rookie years.

The harassment reportedly started in 2012 during Martin's rookie year with the team.

Still, he said, both the 88th and neighboring 79th were getting an influx of rookies this year.

Nobody is saying that Bortles is the QB who threw for 35 TDs just two seasons ago, but with Dak we all assume he's going to be above average because he had a good rookie year.

Cleveland Browns runningback Trent Richardson has been having a stellar rookie year so far, and he has had a few magical...

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon exploded onto the scene last year after an impressive rookie year in 2012 and decided to celebrate by getting a massive back tattoo.

Griffin is only 28 years old, but the shine is thoroughly off him at this point, his brilliant rookie year a distant memory.

McCaffrey had such a great rookie year it is hard to imagine he can get better in 2018.

I didn't have the biggest contract my rookie year [a 4 - year deal worth $ 2.22 million].

After becoming an incredible sensation his rookie year, he credited his practice with providing focus, mental toughness and stamina for those long games.

Rather than hollering back at bigots during his rookie year, Robinson beat them with a slashing, attacking style of baseball that helped lift the Dodgers to the National League pennant and brought them within one game of a World Series victory over the lordly Yankees (who didn't sign an African - American player until Elston Howard in 1955).

My second cousin (the son of my first cousin) has become a key player his rookie year as a New Orleans Saint and teams like the Broncos are kicking themselves for not signing him.

Funny how DL didn't think so, despite Q playing Hood consistently from his rookie year on.

Manley managed to stay clean throughout his rookie year, largely because he had no idea how to get drugs in the first place.

He heard other players in the locker room talking about cocaine and women, and an experience with a veteran teammate during his rookie year planted the seed that drugs were exciting.

It's also fair to wonder what would have happened to Ghost if a) the Flyers defense hadn't been a black hole during his rookie year, and b) he hadn't completely lit the world on fire right from the get - go.