Rob Carpenter (wide reciever)

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name=Rob Carpenter
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position=Wide receiver
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birthdate=Birth date and age|1968|8|1|mf=y
flagicon|USA city-state|Amityville|New York
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debutyear=1991
finalyear=1995
draftyear=1991
draftround=4
draftpick=109
college=Notre Dame/Syracuse
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* Cincinnati Bengals (1991)
* New England Patriots (1991)
* New York Jets (1992-1994)
* Philadelphia Eagles (1995)
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stat1value=51
stat2label=Yards
stat2value=607
stat3label=Touchdowns
stat3value=1
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Rob Carpenter (August 11968 - ) is a retired American football wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots, New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. In college, he played for the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Syracuse University Orangemen and was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the fourth round of the 1991 NFL Draft. [cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1991&lg=NFL|title=1991 NFL Player Draft|accessdate=2007-11-20|date=2006|publisher=databaseSports.com] He was one of a relatively small class of underclassmen, headlined by Ragib "Rocket" Ismail, to be approved in the NFL's second class of players allowed to declare themselves eligible for the draft despite remaining amateur eligibility.cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE1DC173FF936A35751C0A967958260|title= N.F.L. Has 29 Players Listed for Early Draft|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=2007-11-20|date=1991-02-05|author=Eskenazi, Gerald] In addition to Carpenter, other headliners among the underclassmen were Herman Moore, Todd Marinovich and Jon Vaughn (who also played for the 1991 Patriots).

The 1995 Eagles, coached by Ray Rhodes, were the only playoff team that he played for. They compiled a 10-6 record and won their 1995 wild card playoff game against the Detroit Lions before losing to the eventual Super Bowl XXX champion Dallas Cowboys. Carpenter was third (Fred Barnett & Calvin Williams) in receptions and yardage among wide receivers for the Eagles. He and Williams were the only receivers to play all 16 regular season games for the Eagles that year. He and Kelvin Martin shared the punt return duties for the 1995 Eagles. [cite web|url=http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi1995.htm|title=1995 Philadelphia Eagles|accessdate=2007-11-20|publisher=pro-football-reference.com] He had two receptions in each playoff game (including a touchdown in the first). [cite web|url=http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/CarpRo00.htm|title=Rob Carpenter|accessdate=2007-11-20|publisher=pro-football-reference.com]

He ranks among the all-time leaders in Syracuse University receptions in most statistics despite only playing for them for two seasons. He ranks fifth in career yards (1656), ninth in touchdowns (10), ninth in recpetions (93), seventh in yards/catch (17.8) and second in yards/game (72.0). The only others in the top 10 on all five of these lists are Marvin Harrison, Rob Moore and Mike Siano. [cite web|url=http://www.suathletics.com/sports/football/2002/offindivcareer.asp|title=OFFENSIVE INDIVIDUAL CAREER: |accessdate=2007-11-20|publisher=Syracuse University]

References

External links

* [http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/CarpRo00.htm Rob Carpenter] @ [http://www.pro-football-reference.com pro-football-reference.com]