Vontaze Burfict Biography
Vontaze DeLeon Burfict Jr. is an American an American football linebacker for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arizona State and was recognized as an All-American in 2010 and projected an early first-round pick for the 2012 NFL Draft. However, mediocre on-field performance and poor pre-draft workouts deteriorated his draft stock and he ultimately went unselected. In 2012 he was subsequently signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent where he played for seven seasons.
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Vontaze Burfict Age
He was born on 24th September 1990 in Los Angeles, California. He is 28 years old as of 2018.
Vontaze Burfict Height
He stands at a height of 1.85 m tall.
Vontaze Burfict Family
Burfict’s father a gang member and convicted cocaine dealer was incarcerated most of the time and never had a relationship with his son. His mother who was a city transit bus driver, initially raised Burfict and his older half-brother DaShan Miller on her own, but eventually remarried and moved to Corona. His older brother was a football player at Corona Centennial High School and later played college football at UTEP and Akron. He was eligible for the 2010 NFL Draft, but he went undrafted.
Vontaze Burfict Wife
He has been dating his high school sweetheart Brandie Labomme since 2011. Brandie has a B.A in business communications and French from Arizona State University. The couple is parents to two adorable girls. They welcomed their first daughter named Aiyanna, in 2015 and a second daughter in May 2017.
Vontaze Burfict Education
He schooled at Centennial High School in Corona, California he later struggled to meet admission standard based on the NCAA eligibility sliding scale and still had one summer school class to complete.
Vontaze Burfict Career
He was regarded as one of the best linebackers available in the 2012 NFL Draft and was projected to be a first-round pick by NFL draft experts. Problems on and off the field at Arizona State, however, caused his draft stock to plummet. Sports Illustrated′s Tony Pauline ranked him as 20th best prospect on his midseason draft board but noted that he has been “a loose cannon on and off the field, which has raised red flags.” in 2011 October. On January 3, 2012, Burfict announced his decision to forgo his senior season and enter the 2012 NFL Draft. Prior to the NFL Combine, Burfict was ranked as the fifth best linebacker prospect in the draft by NFL analyst Mike Mayock. He attended the NFL Scouting Combine and performed the majority of drills, but skipped the short shuttle and three-cone drills after injuring his hamstring on his second 40-yard dash attempt. His overall performance was described as “disappointing” due to a 5.09 sec in the 40-yard dash, which was the slowest among all linebackers. Burfict attended Arizona State’s pro day and performed the bench press (16 reps), vertical jump (30”), short shuttle (4.56s), and three-cone drill (7.51s) on 16th March 2012. He described his overall pro day performance as “average”. On April 25, 2012, it was reported by Fox Sports insider Jay Glazer multiple NFL teams had been informed that Burfict had failed his drug test at the NFL Combine. He later stated during an interview with Scout.com that he admitted using marijuana to NFL general managers. later stated during an interview with Scout.com that he admitted using marijuana to NFL general managers. Burfict was ranked as the ninth-best inside linebacker in the draft by Scouts Inc. and was ranked the tenth best inside linebacker by DraftScout.com
Vontaze Burfict Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $ 12 million.
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The concussions are piling up for Vontaze Burfict, which may end his NFL career
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At least under Marvin Lewis’ leadership, Cincinnati may be the one of the few NFL locations where concussions aren’t looked at with the severity that they should be. -+But you don’t have to be a doctor to know Vontaze Burfict’s career could be hanging in the balance at the moment.
past Sunday against the Browns, Burfict suffered what was his second concussion of the 2018 season and in the month of December. Officially, it is his seventh diagnosed and documented concussion since his second career season in 2013, but who knows if that number isn’t considerably higher?
Burfict has always played with a sense of recklessness that — more times than not — put his body in harm’s way. Most of the time, it’s what made him the spark that kicked the Bengals’ defense into high gear.
Other times, it’s what lead him to exit the field for extended periods of time; whether it was injury or suspension. That style of play is not long for this day-and-age of football, as not only the rules are cracking down on head-first tackling, but the collisions themselves are getting more and more impactful when they occur.
The linebacker’s latest head trauma earlier this week lead to another premature exit from the field that also included some slight drama with one of the team’s athletic trainers. Burfict was visibly upset with leaving the game for what he most likely knew was another concussion and took out frustration on the trainer, which Lewis commented on after the game.
“He just has to go through the protocol. Sometimes guys don’t want to hear that,” Lewis responded when asked about the incident. “They say they’re fine, but they still have to go through the protocol. They settle down, and then they go do it.”
It’s true that concussions can provoke mood swings and errant behavior, especially right after it happens. Burfict has to be tired of being pulled out of games for head injuries that he can’t seem to avoid, but he should also know the standard he’s put up against is considerably higher than the rest of the league because of the reputation he’s earned as a player.
The good that Burfict can and used to provide on the field is diminishing with every concussion he continues to suffer. Upon returning from his four-game suspension to begin the season, Burfict never looked like the linebacker he was before he signed his latest extension back in 2017.
As the season drained on, he appeared lost and ineffective on more snaps than not. It’s not an exaggeration to say he’s been one of the worst starting linebackers in the league this year, and the recent concussions he suffered certainly won’t help him get back to where he once was.
Looking towards the future, the Bengals’ linebacking corps is once again a major weakness, and there’s even more uncertainty within it than in year’s past. Both Preston Brown and Vincent Rey are free agents and while Nick Vigil and Jordan Evans have given them a healthy amount of snaps, they’re far from reliable assets.
Burfict was the one player in this group that was capable of playing at a high level, but his availability was a concern before his concussions peaked over half-a-dozen in (known) total.
When looking at his minimal dead money compared to his decent-sized cap hit for 2019, the question regarding Burfict’s future must be addressed this offseason; because this situation is likely going to get worse.
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CAREER STATS
| TACKLES | SACKS | INTERCEPTIONS | FUMBLES | MISC | KO RETURN | PUNT RETURN | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEAR | TM | G | TOTAL | SOLO | AST | TFL | SACK | YDS | INT | YDS | TD | FF | FR | TD | PD | SFTY | YDS | TD | YDS | TD |
| 2018 | CIN | 7 | 33 | 16 | 17 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | CIN | 10 | 69 | 48 | 21 | 5 | 1.5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | CIN | 11 | 101 | 73 | 28 | 5 | 2.0 | 11 | 2 | 54 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | CIN | 10 | 74 | 57 | 17 | 6 | 1.0 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | CIN | 5 | 29 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | CIN | 16 | 171 | 114 | 57 | 9 | 3.0 | 20 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | CIN | 16 | 127 | 73 | 54 | 0 | 1.0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 75 | 604 | 396 | 208 | 28 | 8.5 | 64 | 5 | 82 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
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Vontaze Burfict brushes aside past with Antonio Brown
The NFL can make mortal enemies into friends.
Ex-Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict and former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Antonio Brown lived as rivals in the AFC North and experienced some of the most brutal games in today’s NFL, often with Brown taking the brunt of a brutal blow from Burfict (sometimes of the dirty variety).
Now the duo will do battle on the same sideline after joining Jon Gruden’s Oakland Raiders this offseason.
Burfict signed a one-year contract with the Raiders on Tuesday night and was immediately asked about sharing a field with Brown.
“It’s all positive, man,” Burfict said, via Michael Gehlken of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “He’s a great player. He’s going to be in the Hall of Fameone day. Honestly, I’m just going to approach him like I do all my other teammates, introduce myself, all that good stuff. There’s nothing negative over here. We’re all on the same team. We’re trying to win a championship over here. … Honestly, we might be the closest friends on the team, you know what I mean? So, just got to go along with it, and I can’t wait to meet him.”
If you made a video of Burfict’s dirtiest hits, the blows to Brown would be some of the worst. You could argue that a high hit from Burfict in the 2015 playoffs might have cost Brown a Lombardi trophy — after the hit in the AFC Wild Card round the wideout was forced to miss a close Steelers’ divisional round loss to the Denver Broncos, who went on to win the Super Bowl.
Burfict insisted Tuesday night he’s not the dirty player the rest of the world makes him out to be.
“I’m not a dirty player. I play a physical position,” he said. “I can’t go out there playing patty-cake. … If I play soft, I’m not doing my job.”
The Raiders are taking a flier that the enforcer can regroup after a disappointing season that saw his production take a nosedive and effort wane. Oakland hopes to reunite him with defensive coordinator Paul Guenther aids that cause.
After suggesting he and Brown could be friends despite their long history as enemies, Burfict talked to the wideout to clear the air.