Cooper Kupp
| Eastern Washington Eagles No. 10 | |
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| Position | Wide receiver |
| Class |
 Sophomore |
| Major | Economics |
| Career history | |
| College |
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| High school | Yakima (WA) Davis |
| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | June 15, 1993 |
| Place of birth | Yakima, Washington |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 195 lb (88 kg) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Stats at ESPN.com | |
Cooper Kupp (born June 15, 1993) is an American football wide receiver for the Eastern Washington Eagles.
Early years
Kupp graduated from Davis High School in Yakima, Washington in 2012. A two-way All-State selection, he earned first team 4A All-State honors as a defensive back and honorable mention accolades as a wide receiver from the Associated Press, as selected by sportswriters and broadcasters. Kupp was also named by the Seattle Times as a “White Chip” selection, as one of the top 100 prospects in the state of Washington.[1]
Kupp was a unanimous first team All-Columbia Basin Big Nine League wide receiver and defensive back at Davis. He finished his senior season with 60 receptions for 1,059 yards (17.7 per catch) and 18 touchdowns, and scored 22 total touchdowns to set a school record. He also had 11 rushes for 122 yards and two touchdowns as he helped Davis come one game away from a berth in the Washington State 4A Playoffs.[1]
Kupp finished his prep career with 110 catches for 2,100 yards. He was also a three-year letter winner in basketball. Davis finished 23-2 and won the State 4A Tournament championship during his senior year.[1]
College career
2012
Kupp signed with the Eastern Washington Eagles in 2012 and redshirted that year. Kupp would eventually be named Eastern's Offensive Scout Team Player of the Year.[1]
2013
In 2013, Kupp entered his redshirt freshman year as a starter at wide receiver. Kupp finished the season having set numerous single-season school and national receiving records at the Football Championship Subdivision Level. Kupp has set national freshman records for receiving yards (1,691), total touchdown catches (21), consecutive games with a touchdown catch (14), and receptions (93).[2]
On November 26, 2013, Kupp was named to the All-Big Sky Conference First Team as a unanimous selection and was also the recipient of the conference's first-ever Freshman of the Year Award.[3]
On December 16, 2013, Kupp was named the recipient of the 2013 Jerry Rice Award, given to the top freshman player in the FCS. Kupp is the first Eastern Washington player and first player from the Big Sky Conference to receive the award.[4]
Kupp was named a consensus first-team All-American, having been honored by the four major selectors at the FCS level, consisting of the American Football Coaches Association,[5] the Associated Press,[6] The Sports Network[7] and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.[8] Kupp is the first freshman wide receiver to be named as a first-team All-American since Randy Moss in 1996.[7]
On January 9, 2014, Kupp was honored by the College Football Performance Awards with the 2013 FCS Wide Receiver Award. Kupp is the second straight Eagles wide receiver to win the award, following Brandon Kaufman, who won the 2012 award.[9]
2014
Kupp finished 18th in the 2014 Walter Payton Award voting.[10]
College career statistics
All statistics from goeags.com[11]
| Year | Team | Games | Receptions | Yards | Touchdowns | ||||
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| REC | REC/G | YDS | YD/G | AVG | TD | LG | |||
| 2012 | EWU | Redshirt Season | |||||||
| 2013 | EWU | 15 | 93 | 6.2 | 1,691 | 112.7 | 18.2 | 21 | 63 |
| 2014 | EWU | 13 | 104 | 8.0 | 1,431 | 110.1 | 13.8 | 16 | 61 |
| Career | 28 | 197 | 7.1 | 3,122 | 111.4 | 15.5 | 37 | 63 | |
Personal
Kupp is the son of former National Football League quarterback Craig Kupp, a fifth-round draft pick by the New York Giants in 1990 out of Pacific Lutheran University who played for the Phoenix Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys in 1991.[1]
His grandfather, Jake Kupp, was an offensive lineman for the University of Washington and was drafted in the ninth round of the 1964 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys. He played from 1964-75 as a guard with Dallas, the Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints. Named to the NFL All-Rookie team, he later was a five-time captain for the Saints. He was named to the franchise’s 25-year All-Time Team and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1991.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Official Eastern Washington Eagles Cooper Kupp bio". Goeags.com. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ↑ "Eagles flying Big Sky high". NCAA.com. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ↑ "Adams and Kupp take top Big Sky honors, 25 Eags named All-Conference". KREM.com. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ↑ "EWU’s Cooper Kupp wins Rice Award". spokesman.com. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
- ↑ "AFCA Honors T.J. Lee III and Cooper Kupp on Prestigious All-America Team". swxrightnow.com. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
- ↑ "AP FCS All-America Team, List". sacbee.com. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "In the FCS Huddle: FCS All-America team shines on star power". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ "Eastern Washington, two wins from national title, has two players atop football All-American list". seattletimes.com. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
- ↑ "Vernon Adams and Cooper Kupp Receive Top Honors from College Performance Awards". goeags.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/writers/infcshuddle/archive/haley_12_02_2014.htm
- ↑ "EWU Football Statistics - 2013". goeags.com. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
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