{"id":38188,"date":"2016-02-23T03:55:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T07:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=38188"},"modified":"2016-02-24T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:30:49","slug":"rocket-wide-receiver-invited-to-nfl-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_23_2016\/rocket-wide-receiver-invited-to-nfl-combine","title":{"rendered":"Rocket wide receiver invited to NFL combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Toledo wide receiver Alonzo Russell has been invited to participate in the NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis this week. <\/p>\n<p>Russell, who is one of just five players from the Mid-American Conference to be invited to the combine, is scheduled to report Thursday, Feb. 25, and work out with other wide receivers Saturday, Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_36536\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_17_2015\/no-22-toledo-pounds-eastern-michigan-63-20\/web-russell-vs-emu\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36536\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/web-russell-vs.-emu.jpg\" alt=\"Senior wide receiver Alonzo Russell hauled in three passes for 43 yards in the UT victory.\" width=\"540\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/web-russell-vs.-emu.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/web-russell-vs.-emu-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wide receiver Alonzo Russell pulled in 24 touchdown catches during his career and is second in that category on UT&#8217;s all-time list.<\/p><\/div>He was a four-time All-MAC receiver for the Rockets, earning second-team all-league honors in 2015. He is only the second Rocket ever to earn All-MAC honors four times. The other two were former NFL offensive lineman Nick Kaczur (2001 to 2004) and current Dallas Cowboy safety Barry Church (2006 to 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Russell caught 202 passes in his career, which ranks fifth on UT\u2019s all-time list. He also ranks third in receiving yards with 3,076 and second in touchdown catches with 24. <\/p>\n<p>He set the school record by catching at least one pass in 50 straight games, every game in his college career.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL Draft will take place Thursday through Saturday, April 28-30, in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alonzo Russell, who set the UT record by catching at least one pass in 50 straight games, will report the NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,5,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38188"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38347,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38188\/revisions\/38347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}