Ashley Lelie

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Ashley Lelie
Date of birth February 16, 1980
Place of birth Flag of United States Bellflower, California
Position(s) Wide Receiver
College Hawaii
NFL Draft 2002 / Round 1/ Pick 19
Statistics
Team(s)
2002-2005
2006
2007-present		 Denver Broncos
Atlanta Falcons
San Francisco 49ers

Ashley Jovon Lelie (born February 16, 1980, in Bellflower, California) is an American football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL.

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[edit] High school career

Lelie attended Radford High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was a three-sport standout in football, track, and basketball. In football, he won All-District and All-State honors. In basketball, he won All-District honors and in track, he won an All-League honors. He was also an excellent student and made his high school's honor roll every semester of his high school years.

[edit] College career

Lelie finished his career at the University of Hawaii as its all-time leader receiving yards (3,341) and touchdown receptions (32) while averaging an impressive 17.2 yards per catch. He was a first-team All-Western Athletic Conference selection as a junior in 2001, his final year at the school, and broke the WAC single-season records for receiving yards (1,713) and touchdowns (19) while also tying the WAC record for most 200-yard games in a season (3). He ranked first in the conference and second in the nation in yards per game (142.8 avg.) and ranked third in the WAC and ninth in the nation in receptions per game (7.0 avg.) as a junior.

[edit] Pro career

Lelie was selected by the Denver Broncos in the first round (19th overall) of the 2002 NFL Draft. Since being selected, Lelie has emerged as one of the top big-play receivers in the NFL, setting the NFL’s highest yards-per-reception averages in 2005 (18.3) and 2004 (20.1). He also ranked second in the AFC (4th in NFL) with a 17.0 yards-per-reception average in 2003.

[edit] Denver fallout and trade to Atlanta

The relationship between Lelie and the Broncos began to sour during the 2006 offseason. It is believed that there were two actions taken by the Broncos that irritated Lelie. The first was the speculation that the Broncos were interested in acquiring disgruntled wide receiver Terrell Owens to bolster their receiving corps. The other action occurred during the 2006 NFL Draft, when the Broncos traded for former Green Bay Packers receiver Javon Walker. Lelie was irritated by the Broncos' decision to pick up Walker, as Lelie felt he would have no chance to earn a starting position on the team, with both Rod Smith and Walker the likely number one and two receivers. Lelie threatened to skip all organized team activities and training camp until he was either released or traded to another team.

On August 22, 2006, the Broncos sent Lelie to the Atlanta Falcons in a three-team trade which also involved the Washington Redskins. The trade to the Falcons ended a lengthy and costly offseason holdout for Lelie, who skipped all of Denver's offseason conditioning programs and did not report to training camp. Lelie was being fined at the rate of $14,000 per day, the maximum permitted, during his camp holdout. The total fines for his camp absence came to $378,000. Lelie also lost a $100,000 workout bonus because he did not participate in offseason workouts. There is speculation that Lelie also had to repay the Broncos a prorated portion of his $3.3 million signing bonus, which would amount to $660,000 for the five years he was under contract with the Broncos (the sixth year of his contract was voided when he reached certain incentives.) The total amount of money Lelie gave up to Broncos in order to be traded is around $982,000.[1]

After having an unremarkable year with Atlanta in 2006, Lelie has bought out his last year of contract with the Falcons to become a free agent in March of 2007.

[edit] San Francisco 49ers

On March 3, 2007 Lelie signed a 2 year deal with the 49ers for $4.3 million, including a $2 million signing bonus.


[edit] NFL Statistics

    Receiving   Rushing
Season Team G GS Rec Yards AVG LG TD 20+ Att Yds TD
2002 Denver 16 1 35 525 15.0 48 2 12 4 40 0
2003 Denver 16 10 37 628 17.0 60 2 16 8 43 0
2004 Denver 16 16 54 1084 20.1 58 7 26 3 5 0
2005 Denver 16 13 42 770 18.3 56 1 17 5 84 0
2006 Atlanta 15 10 28 430 15.4 51 1 6 0 0 0
Totals 68 42 175 3143 18.0 60 12 74 20 172 0

(*current season)

[edit] External links

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