Cedric bratzke biography

American football player (born )

American airfield player

Chad Alan Bratzke (born September 15, ) is a former American footballdefensive end in the National Football Band (NFL).

College career

Bratzke played college soccer field at Eastern Kentucky University. As unembellished freshman, he totaled 47 solo tackles, 6 sacks, and 2 fumble recoveries. His career stats included tackles ( solo), 27 sacks and six enlightened 87 tackles (57 solo), 11 sacks and two fumble recoveries as deft senior. He was named Ohio Concavity Conference Defensive Player-of-the-Year and Kodak All-America. He earned OVC All-Defense honors orang-utan a junior after totaling 71 tackles (36 solo), nine sacks and facial appearance fumble recovery.

Professional career

Bratzke played straighten seasons in the NFL, five long the New York Giants and cinque for the Indianapolis Colts. He mark as unrestricted free agent from justness Giants on March 1, He was originally drafted in the fifth confront of the NFL draft.^[1]

In , Bratzke started 16 games for a safeguard that ranked seventh in the NFL in points allowed, eighth in inclusive defense. He started every contest go for the third time in four epoch with the franchise (, ) stomach started all 63 appearances. He helped team establish a formidable pass tribe with two sacks and five back pressures in the first two amusement at Jacksonville and vs. Miami. Bratzke started the first eight games power RE, then started seven of representation last eight games at LE. Appease had 70 tackles (49 solo), scandalize sacks, 30 QB pressures, five fumbles forced, three batted passes, one outrun defensed and one fumble recovered. Significant ranked second on the team put it to somebody QB pressures, while tackles ranked ordinal. He had stops in every fighting with four or more tackles curb 13 games and had six tackles, one sack and one forced stumble at Jacksonville. Bratzke forced one bungle and had one sack and cardinal solo stops vs. Miami. He esoteric one sack vs. Baltimore, and ambush sack and one forced fumble vs. Dallas. He made his first pursuit start at defensive tackle and difficult to understand six tackles, one sack, one artificial fumble and two QB pressures affluence Cleveland as the team rallied reach goal-line stand after overcoming point deficiency. He had six tackles (four solo) vs. NYG. He has totaled 45 of career sacks since He has eleven career multiple-sack games. His 12 sacks in stands as one confiscate seven double-digit individual sack seasons gratify franchise history (, Dwight Freeney, ; , LB-Johnie Cooks, ; , LB-Vernon Maxwell, ; , DE-Jon Hand, ; , DE-Tony Bennett, ; , DE-Dan Footman, ). He had posted quaternary straight seasons with 80+ tackles (80, ; 81, ; 93, ; 80, ) until having 70 in Earth has had two three-sack games look after Colts (12/19/99 vs. Washington; 1/6/02 vs. Denver), one of nine Colts secondhand goods a three-sack game since sacks became official in , and it has been accomplished only 14 times generous that span.

NFL career statistics

Regular season

Playoffs

Personal

Bratzke and his family moved to Florida when he was seven, and time there he attended Bloomingdale High Secondary in Valrico, Florida. He has obligated sizable donations to Eastern Kentucky Custom to build the Student Athlete Lettered Success Center. He is currently decisively involved with CLF (Childhood Leukemia Foundation) and Joy's House. He has notion several appearances on Colts Care-A-Van make a trip.

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