Latavius Murray Bio
Latavius Murray is a professional football player who currently plays running back for the New Orleans Saints. He was born on January 18, 1990 in Onondaga, New York and attended Syracuse University prior to entering the NFL. Throughout his college career he totaled 3,335 rushing yards with 34 touchdowns across three seasons and earned All-Big East honors twice.
Murray was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in 2013 as a sixth round pick and started his rookie season off strong with 79 carries for 424 yards and two touchdowns. The following year he became even more of an integral part of the offense, totaling 1,066 rushing yards with six touchdowns. In 2015 he had his best season yet when he accumulated 1,854 rushing yards with 13 touchdowns while also performing well in pass protection and catching passes out of the backfield. During these years Murray established himself as one of the top running backs in all of football despite not playing on a great team overall due to Oakland’s struggles both offensively and defensively.
In 2016 Latavius signed a contract with Minnesota Vikings where he continued to have success even though injuries limited him at times throughout this period. Over this time frame Murray scored 12 total touchdowns (nine rushing) before signing another contract in 2018 that sent him to New Orleans Saints where he currently serves as Alvin Kamara’s backup but still manages to be highly productive nonetheless having scored 8 total touchdown last season alone (six coming from rushes). Though injuries have been somewhat common throughout his NFL career thus far they have never kept him out too long nor seemed particularly concerning which has allowed Murray remain effective over a seven year period now during which time we’ve seen some truly remarkable production come from him no matter what uniform or team name may be printed on it each week .
- Position
- RB
- Height
- 6-3
- Weight
- 230 lbs
- College
- UCF
- Experience
- 10
