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Te XAN S<br />
Height: 5-9<br />
Weight: 197<br />
College: West Virginia<br />
<strong>Home</strong>town: Levittown, Pennsylvania<br />
Rookie season<br />
1st with <strong>Texans</strong><br />
Age as of Kickoff Weekend: 22<br />
Acquired: D3b, 2008 (89th overall)<br />
STEVE SLATON<br />
RUNNING BACK<br />
rookies<br />
college: Rushed for 3,923 yards during his collegiate<br />
career, ranking third on the school’s alltime<br />
record list behind Avon Cobourne (5,164<br />
yards, 1999-2002) and Amos Zereoue (4,086<br />
yards, 1996-98)…only Cobourne and Ray Rice<br />
of Rutgers (4,926 yards, 2005-07) rank ahead<br />
of Slaton on the Big East Conference record<br />
list…664 rushing attempts are surpassed only<br />
by Avon Cobourne (1,050) and Amos Zereoue<br />
(786) in school annals…50 touchdowns on the<br />
ground topped the previous WVU career-record<br />
of 42, first set by Ira Errett Rodgers (1915-19) and<br />
matched by Avon Cobourne…1,774 yards rushing<br />
in 2006 set a school season-record, topping<br />
the old mark of 1,710 yards by Avon Cobourne in<br />
2002…only Big East runners to gain more yards<br />
rushing in a season were Ray Rice of Rutgers<br />
(1,794 in 2006 and 2,012 in 2007) and Willis Mc-<br />
Gahee of Miami (1,753 in 2002)…248 carries in<br />
2006 rank sixth on WVU’s annual record list…17<br />
touchdowns rushing in both 2005 and 2007 tied<br />
Avon Cobourne (2002) for third on the school’s<br />
season-record list behind Ira Errett Rodgers<br />
(19 in 1919) and Amos Zereoue (18 in 1997)…<br />
Slaton’s 27 receptions in 2006 tied Jim Braxton<br />
(1970) for the third-best season total by a West<br />
Virginia running back, surpassed by Mickey<br />
Walczak (49 in 1981) and Robert Alexander (31<br />
in 1980)…five touchdowns rushing vs. Louisville<br />
in 2005 tied Walter Reyes of Syracuse (vs. Notre<br />
Dame in 2003) and Lee Suggs of Virginia Tech<br />
(vs. Central Florida in 2000) for second on the Big<br />
East game-record chart, topped by Willis Mc-<br />
Gahee of Miami (six vs. Virginia Tech in 2002)…<br />
Ran for a Sugar Bowl record 204 yards vs. Georgia<br />
in the 2005-06 clash, the second-highest total<br />
by a player in a BCS bowl game.<br />
2007: All-Big East Conference second-team selection…semi-finalist<br />
for the Maxwell Award…<br />
ranked fourth in the league in rushing (80.85<br />
ypg), his lowest game average in his three years<br />
with the team…finished second on the squad<br />
with 1,051 yards on 211 carries (5.0 avg), scoring<br />
seventeen times on the ground…ranked second<br />
on the team with 26 receptions for 350 yards<br />
(13.5 avg) and one score…tallied 108 points and<br />
recorded a solo tackle…added 47 yards on a<br />
pair of kickoff returns (23.5 avg)…ranked 84th<br />
nationally with 1,448 all-purpose yards, an average<br />
of 111.38 yards per game…ran for over<br />
100 yards in six games, including his first four<br />
contests.<br />
2006: First-team All-American selection by the<br />
American Football Coaches Association, Football<br />
Writers Association, Walter Camp, The<br />
Sporting News and Associated Press, adding<br />
second-team honors from The NFL Draft Report<br />
and Rivals.com…finished fourth in the voting for<br />
the Heisman Trophy and was a Maxwell Award<br />
semi-finalist…selected by the Philadelphia<br />
Sports Writers as the Amateur Athlete of the<br />
Year...named the team’s Most Valuable Player…finalist<br />
for the Doak Walker Award, given to<br />
the nation’s top running back…All-Big East Conference<br />
first-team pick…set the school seasonrecord<br />
with 1,744 yards on 248 carries (7.0 avg),<br />
188
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