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Antonio James Richardson (Nashville, February 24, 1992) is an American American football player who plays in the role of offensive tackle and is currently free agent. Not selected as part of the NFL 2014 Draft was later hired by the National Football League Minnesota Vikings as undrafted free agent . Previously he had played football for the volunteers of the University of Tennessee.

After successfully attending the Pearl Cohn High School in Nashville, where for two years an all-stakes offensive Lineman was also earning an invitation to the Ermy Bowl, Richardson decided to accept the scholarship offered on 2 February 2011 University of Tennessee. He was one of the players recruited with the best score from the volunteers in 2011 [first] and had previously been inserted by Sporting News at nº 49 among the best prospects at national level (7th among the men of the offensive line) of the Sporting News Top 100 relating to the 2011 class, and by the famous scouting site Rivals.com At nº 79 among the best prospects at national level, 7th among the men of the offensive line, and nº 1 absolute among all the prospects in the state of the Tennessee [2] .

In his first year in Tennessee, Richardson took the field in 12 meetings, without ever starting as a owner and playing almost exclusively in the special teams, except for some Snap played as Extra Fullback against Vanderbilt and Kentucky [2] . The following year he was promoted to the left tackle owner of the Volunteers, starting from the beginning in all 12 meetings of the regular season and helping the attack of Tennessee to tota an average of a total yard at a game of 475.9 (20th best result seasonal at national level in the NCAA), 315.6 on passage (15th best seasonal result in NCAA), only 8 Sacks suffered, for an average of 0.67 per game (4th best seasonal result in NCAA) [2] . In this same season, moreover, the Volunteers recorded 5 games with more than 500 total yards accumulated by the attack, the best result of the University since the 1997 season, while Richardson was especially praised by professionals for limited for almost all The match, in the match lost 35-38 against South Carolina, the strong defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, who managed to get the better of the final only when he was evading the Richardson marking he managed to force the smoking that allowed Gamecocks to make them the game [3] . At the end of the season he was then included in the second-test All-Sec by the Associated Press [4] .

In 2013 he was again holding all 12 seasonal meetings in the role of left tackle, helping Tennessee’s attack to total 2,261 yard on Corsa (best result of the University since 2004) and 5 games with more than 200 yard on race, And the Running Back Rajion Neal exceeds 1000 seasonal yard on race. At the end of the season it was once again included in the second-TEAM All-Sec [5] In addition to the Third-Team All-American from Cbssports.com [6] .

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Richardson was considered one of the best offensives Tackle in view of the NFL 2014 draft (he was predicted to be chosen between the 2nd and 3rd lap) [7] [8] [9] to which he presented himself from underclassman , having decided to make himself eligible after giving up his last year to college [ten] . Despite the premises he was not selected by any team (mainly for doubts about his physical health), but, at that point one of the 10 best players and the best offensive Tackle has not been selected at the Draft [11] , already on May 10, shortly after the end of the draft, was hired by the Minnesota Vikings like undrafted free agent [twelfth] [13] .

After an excellent pre-installation, Richardson’s prices to get a place among the 53 in the roster were in clear ascent but a knee swelling remedied in the last meeting of the pre-installation against the Tennessee Titans relegated him to the list of injured person for The rest of the season and forced him to undergo an arthroscopic intervention in early September [14] .

Finally, on 7 May 2015 he was released from Vikings [15] .

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  1. ^ ( IN ) 2011 Tennessee Football Commitment List , Rivals.com. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 .
  2. ^ a b c ( IN ) Antonio Richardson Bio , Utsports.com. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 (archived by URL Original March 27, 2014) .
  3. ^ ( IN ) The Jadeveon Clowney Question Will Be Answered in Tennessee Rematch , Sbnation.com. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 .
  4. ^ ( IN ) The 2012 Associated Press All-SEC football team , Associated Press, 3 December 2012. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 .
  5. ^ ( IN ) The 2013 Associated Press All-SEC football team , Associated Press, 9 December 2013. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 .
  6. ^ ( IN ) Richardson Named CBSSports.com All-American , Utsports.com, 17 December 2013. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 (archived by URL Original 1 February 2014) .
  7. ^ ( IN ) 2014 NFL Draft , Cbssports.com. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 .
  8. ^ ( IN ) 2014 NFL Draft Scouting Report: Antonio Richardson , Walterfootball.com. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 .
  9. ^ ( IN ) Mock Draft 7.0: Projecting Round 2 of 2014 NFL Draft , NFL.com, 9 May 2014. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 .
  10. ^ ( IN ) Vols OL Antonio Richardson elects to enter NFL draft , NFL.com. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 .
  11. ^ ( IN ) 2014 NFL Draft: Top 10 undrafted free-agent signings , NFL.com, 11 May 2014. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 .
  12. ^ ( IN ) Vikings Agree To Terms With 15 College Free Agents , Vikings.com, 11 May 2014. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 (archived by URL Original May 12, 2014) .
  13. ^ ( IN ) Reported Undrafted Vols’ UFA Signings , Utsports.com, 10 May 2014. URL consulted on 12 May 2014 (archived by URL Original May 13, 2014) .
  14. ^ ( IN ) Minnesota Vikings Head Into Week 1 Relatively Healthy , CBS Local, 5 settembre 2014. URL consulted on 8 September 2014 .
  15. ^ ( IN ) Vikings Waive 5 Players , Vikings.com, 7 May 2015. URL consulted on May 8, 2015 (archived by URL Original on May 8, 2015) .

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