Trent Murphy Stanford Cardinal Game Worn & Signed Red & White Nike Gloves

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Trent Murphy is a linebacker for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League. He played college football for Stanford and was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft.

Murphy started all 14 games of the 2012 season for Stanford’s Pac-12 championship season. He led the Cardinal defense with 10 sacks and 18 tackles for loss, the best defensive records for Stanford since 2000 and 2004 respectively. Murphy’s season included 6 QB hurries, 4 passes broken up and 1 forced fumble. Murphy recorded his first career interception of a pass made by Keith Price, resulting in a 40 yard return for a touchdown. The former Cardinal registered another career high game against number 1 ranked Notre Dame with 10 tackles, 1.5 sacks including 2.5 tackles for loss of yards. The Stanford defense was the 2012 NCAA Division I-A Sack Leader, with Murphy topping the list.

Murphy was named to the All-Pac-12, 2012 1st team, CBS All America Team 3rd 2012 Associated Press All-American 3rd Team 3rd, and the 2012 Sports Illustrated All-American Team. He was a Butkus Award semi-finalist and won the Stanford-player voted Jack Huston Award recipient for exceptional performance and unheralded effort.

The defensive force chose to return to Stanford for a fifth-year senior season, despite his option to enter the 2013 NFL Draft. At the end of the 2013 season Murphy ranked first for sacks in the Pac-12 and also first for total number of sacks in the NCAA with a total of 15 sacks, 119 yards lost an average of 1.07 per game. In the category of tackles for loss, Murphy ranked second overall with 23.5 (83 yards total, 1.68 avg per game). Murphy was named PAC-12 Defensive Player of the week in weeks 6 (Oct. 7) and 9 (Oct. 28). On Dec. 7 the Stanford Cardinal defeated ASU to earn the Pac-12 Championship title for the second year in a row and earned the honor of playing in the 2014 Rose Bowl game, as they did in 2012. Also for the second year running, Murphy received Stanford’s Jack Huston Award, voted by his peers as the player exemplifying aggressiveness, exceptional performance and unheralded efforts. Additionally, at the Dec. 8, 2013 football awards ceremony, Murphy received the Frank Rehm memorial award for outstanding lineman in the Big Game.

In 2014, Murphy made his professional regular season debut in the Washington Redskins’ season-opening 17-6 loss at the Houston Texans. On September 21, 2014, Murphy recorded his first career tackle in a 37-34 loss at the Philadelphia Eagles. He made his tackle on running back LeSean McCoy and dropped him for a two-yard loss in the second quarter. On October 27th, 2014, he earned his first career start in place of Brian Orakpo who was placed on injured reserve after suffering a torn pectoral. He finished the 19-17 victory over the Tennessee Titans with a solo tackle and one pass deflection. He finished his rookie season with 32 combined tackles (28 solo), 2.5 sacks, and a pass deflection in eight starts and 15 games.

On September 18th, 2016, Murphy returned to the defensive end position for the Redskins after the line had multiple injuries and was had underwhelming performances. He had six combined tackles and made two sacks on Dak Prescott in their 27-23 loss. This marked his first multi-sack game of his career. On October 2nd, 2016, he made a season-high five solo tackles and sacked Cody Kessler during the Redskins’ 31-20 win over the Cleveland Browns. In Week 7, Murphy recorded two solo tackles and sacked Matthew Stafford in a 20-17 loss at the Detroit Lions. This was his sixth consecutive game with a sack. He finished the 2016 season with 47 combined tackles (29 solo), a career-high nine sacks, and a pass deflection in 16 games.

The featured nike 3xl gloves were game worn by Trent Murphy as a member of the dominant Stanford Cardinal defense. Murphy has signed the gloves in black and added “Game Worn’ to the left glove. They show good use!