Aaron Lockett (gridiron football)

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Aaron Lockett
Date of birth (1978-09-06) September 6, 1978 (age 45)
Place of birth
Booker T. Washington
(Tulsa, Oklahoma)
NFL draft2002 / Round: 7 / Pick: 254
Career history
As player
2002Tampa Bay Buccaneers*
2002–2003San Francisco 49ers*
2004Ottawa Renegades
2004–2006BC Lions
*Offseason and/or practice squad member only
Career highlights and awards
Professional
Collegiate
OSSAA Championships
Honors
  • Four-time All-Big 12 Conference (1st team-1x, 2nd team-2x)
Records
Big 12 Conference
  • Single-season punt return average (2000–)
  • Longest pass reception (1998–)
Kansas State Wildcats (football)
  • Career
    all-purpose yards
    (2001–04)
  • Freshman season receiving yards (1998–)
  • Consecutive 100-yard receiving games (1998–2007)
  • Longest play from scrimmage (1998–)
Kansas State Wildcats (track)

Aaron DaRon Lockett[1] (born September 6, 1978) is a former American football and Canadian football wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL) for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers, and in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Ottawa Renegades and BC Lions. He played college football at Kansas State University where he set school and Big 12 Conference football and track and field records. His brother Kevin Lockett and nephew Tyler Lockett also played wide receiver at Kansas State where they also set records.

Lockett led the nation in

all-purpose yards
and consecutive 100-yard receiving games.

As a

NFL Combine 40-yard dash
participants of all-time.

His professional career involved several short stints that included most of a season on the

taxi squad for the 2002 49ers of the NFL and a few years with the BC Lions of the CFL. In his most productive professional season, he led the CFL in return yards for the 2005 CFL season
.

College career

On September 26, 1998,

CNN Sports Illustrated.[9]

Lockett was a 1998 All-Big 12 Conference honorable mention wide receiver, 1999 All-Big 12 Conference second-team wide receiver, 2000 All-Big 12 Conference first-team

kickoff returner.[10] He was a four-time Big 12 Conference Special Teams player of the week: August 26 – September 2, 2000, September 16, 2000, November 18, 2000, and September 20–22 2001.[11]

He established the following Kansas State Wildcats football records:

  • single-game receiving yards by a freshman (188 yards on September 26, 1998)[12] single-season receiving yards by a freshman (928, 1998),[12]
  • consecutive 100-yard receiving games (3 games, October 31 – November 14, 1998) — broken in 2007 by Jordy Nelson,[12]
  • career all-purpose yards (4023 yards, 1998–2001) — broken in 2004 by Darren Sproles[13]
  • single-season punt return average (22.8 yards in 2000)[14]
  • longest play from scrimmage (97 yards on September 26, 1998)[15]

He led Kansas State in the following statistics:

  • receptions (24 in 2001)[16]
  • receiving yards (357 yards in 2001)[17]
  • all-purpose yards (1,459 yards in 2000)[13]

In track, placed 4th and 5th in the 60 metres at the 1998 and 2000 Big 12 Indoor Track & Field Championships and set the Kansas State record of 6.69 seconds in the 1999 event.

NFL Combine since 2000 when times began being recorded electronically with fully automatic time electronic timing.[21]

Professional career

NFL

Pre-draft measurables
Height Weight Arm length Hand span 40-yard dash 10-yard split 20-yard split
20-yard shuttle
 Three-cone drill Vertical jump Broad jump
5 ft 7+3⁄8 in
(1.71 m) 		155 lb
(70 kg) 		29 in
(0.74 m) 		7+1⁄8 in
(0.18 m)		 4.31 s 1.54 s 2.55 s 4.11 s 6.84 s 35.0 in
(0.89 m)		 9 ft 11 in
(3.02 m)
All values from NFL Combine[22][23]

Lockett was drafted in the seventh round with the 254th overall pick in the

taxi squad for the San Francisco 49ers, who signed him on October 1,[citation needed] released him on November 19,[27] signed him on November 27,[28] and re-signed him for 2003 the following February.[29] They released him in training camp in 2003.[30]

CFL

In 2004, Lockett signed with the

kickoff returns, which as of 2011 was tied for fourth all-time in league history.[33] That season, he led the CFL in return yards and became a Rogers CFL Player Awards nominee.[34][35] He was released by the Lions after the 2006 CFL season after return blocking rule changes rendered him ineffective.[36]

Personal

Lockett's brother

rapper.[38]

Notes

  1. ^ "Aaron Lockett football statistics on StatsCrew.com". statscrew.com. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
  2. ^ "Big 12 Football 2011 Media Guide" (PDF). Big12sports.com. p. 66. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  3. ^ Reynolds, Scott and Jim Flynn (April 21, 2002). "Bucs Select WR Lockett With Third 7th-Round Pick". Scout.com. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  4. ^ "Football Bowl Subdivision Records" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. p. 49. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  5. ^ a b "Big 12 Football 2011 Media Guide" (PDF). Big12sports.com. p. 77. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  6. ^ "Big 12 Football 2011 Media Guide" (PDF). Big12sports.com. p. 65. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  7. ^ "2000 AP All-America Team". USA Today. December 13, 2000. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  8. ^ "Remembering greatness from past Big 12 championships". Tulsa World. December 3, 2010. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
  9. ^ Mandel, Stewart (December 5, 2001) [2001-12-03]. "Miami's McKinnie heads CNNSI.com All-Americans". Retrieved December 24, 2011.
  10. ^ "Big 12 Football 2011 Media Guide" (PDF). Big12sports.com. pp. 100–2. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  11. ^ "Big 12 Football 2011 Media Guide" (PDF). Big12sports.com. pp. 108–9. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  12. ^
    CBS Interactive. p. 136. Archived from the original
    on May 21, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  13. ^
    CBS Interactive. p. 140. Archived from the original
    on May 21, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  14. CBS Interactive. p. 150. Archived from the original
    on May 21, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  15. CBS Interactive. p. 152. Archived from the original
    on May 21, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  16. CBS Interactive. p. 138. Archived from the original
    on May 21, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  17. CBS Interactive. p. 139. Archived from the original
    on May 21, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  18. ^ a b c "22 Aaron Lockett". KStatesports.com. Archived from the original on May 21, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  19. ^ "Terence Newman". KStateSports.com. Archived from the original on May 21, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  20. ^ "Kansas State Track & Field Men's Indoor Records". KStateSports.com. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  21. ^ Henderson, Lee Andrew (January 28, 2011). "Top 5 40-yard dash times in NFL Combine history". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  22. ^ "Aaron Lockett, Combine Results, WR - Kansas State". nflcombineresults.com. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
  23. ^ "2002 NFL Combine Results". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
  24. ^ "Draft History". Buccaneers.com. Archived from the original on December 13, 2011. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  25. ^ Edholm, Eric (March 25, 2011). "Compensatory picks add extra element to draft strategy". Pro Football Weekly. Archived from the original on September 6, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  26. ^ Flynn, Jim (July 26, 2002). "Tampa Bay, WR Lockett Agree To Three-Year Contract". Scout.com. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  27. ^ "Transactions". The New York Times. November 20, 2002. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  28. ^ "Agreed to..." Chicago Tribune. November 27, 2002. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
  29. ^ Crumpacker, John (February 19, 2003). "Erickson adds familiar face to coaching staff". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  30. ^ "Transactions". The New York Times. August 25, 2003. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  31. ^ "RENEGADES GET A ROCKET IN LOCKETT". Ottawa Start. March 16, 2004. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  32. ^ Stevenson, Chris (September 12, 2004). "Tillman says it's up to team to win 4-of-6 games and make playoffs". Canoe Inc. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  33. ^ "Regular Season All-Time Records". Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  34. ^ Ullrich, Lowell (June 28, 2006). "Lockett ready to make like an orange rocket". Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  35. ^ "2005 Rogers CFL Player Awards". Canadian Football League. November 2, 2005. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  36. ^ Little, Lyndon (September 26, 2006). "Quiet release of return specialist Lockett hands job to rookie". Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
  37. CBS Interactive. November 8, 2014. Archived from the original
    on November 11, 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  38. ^ "Aaron Lockett, WR - Kansas State". USA Today. April 16, 2002. Retrieved December 26, 2011.

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