Trey Flowers

Trey Flowers
No. 98 – New England Patriots
Position: Defensive end
Personal information
Born: (1993-08-16) August 16, 1993
Huntsville, Alabama
Height: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight: 265 lb (120 kg)
Career information
High school: Columbia (Huntsville, Alabama)
College: Arkansas
NFL Draft: 2015 / Round: 4 / Pick: 101
Career history
Roster status: Active
Career highlights and awards
  • Super Bowl champion (LI)
  • Second Team All-SEC (2013)
  • Honorable Mention All-SEC (2014)
Career NFL statistics as of Week 5, 2018
Total tackles: 119
Sacks: 15.5
Forced fumbles: 3
Pass deflections: 4
Player stats at NFL.com

Robert Lee "Trey" Flowers III [1] (born August 16, 1993) is an American football defensive end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arkansas.

Early years

Flowers attended Columbia High School in Huntsville, Alabama.[2] He was ranked by Rivals.com as a three-star recruit.[3] He originally committed to Georgia Tech to play college football but changed to the University of Arkansas.[4] Flowers also played basketball in high school.

College career

Flowers played in all 13 games with three starts as a true freshman in 2011. He had 28 total tackles, 5.5 tackles, for loss and one sack.[5] As a sophomore in 2012, he started all 13 games, recording 50 total tackles, 13 tackles for loss and six sacks.[6] Flowers started 11 games as a junior in 2013, missing one due to injury. He finished the year with 44 total tackles, 13.5 tackles for loss and five sacks.[7] He also recorded an interception and three forced fumbles. After his junior season, Flowers considered entering the 2014 NFL Draft and received a third-round draft grade from the NFL Draft Advisory Board, but he eventually chose to return to Arkansas for his senior year.[8][9][10] In his last season playing for the Razorbacks he led the team in tackles for loss and sacks, respectively with 15.5 and six. He ended his career at Arkansas with 190 tackles, 47.5 tackles for loss, 18 sacks, one interception, 13 passes defended, and four forced fumbles.[11]

Professional career

Pre-draft measurables
Ht Wt Arm length Hand size 40-yard dash 10-yd split 20-yd split 20-ss 3-cone Vert jump Broad BP Wonderlic
6 ft 2 in
(1.88 m)		 266 lb
(121 kg)		 34 1⁄4 in
(0.87 m)		 10 in
(0.25 m)		 4.93 s 1.74 s N/A s 4.40 s 7.34 s 36 1⁄2 in
(0.93 m)		 10 ft 1 in
(3.07 m)		 28 reps 24

At the 2015 NFL Combine, Flowers was a top performer in the vertical and in the broad jump.

2015 season

The New England Patriots selected Flowers in the fourth round (101st overall) of the 2015 NFL Draft.[12] In the first preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, Flowers sacked Aaron Rodgers but later left the game with a shoulder injury.[13] Flowers made the Patriots 53-man roster but was only active for one game before being placed on injured reserve on December 1, 2015.[14]

2016 season

After missing most of his rookie season due to injury, Flowers experienced a breakout season in 2016. In Week 8 against the Buffalo Bills, Flowers got his first two career sacks on quarterbacks Tyrod Taylor and EJ Manuel while tacking on five tackles.[15] He played in all 16 regular season games starting in the final eight, finishing the season leading the team in sacks with 7.0, all coming in the last nine games of the season. He led the team with 2.5 sacks in the Patriots win in Super Bowl LI over the Atlanta Falcons on February 5, 2017.[16] These included the crucial second down sack with 3:55 to go in the fourth quarter that helped push the Falcons out of field goal range—allowing the Patriots to tie the game on the following possession, completing their 25-point comeback.[17]

2017 season

After a breakout season in 2016, Flowers began the way he ended the previous season, recording 2.0 sacks in the season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs on September 7.[18] Despite suffering a rib injury Week 12 against the Miami Dolphins, Flowers started 14 games and lead the team with 6.5 sacks. Flowers helped the Patriots reach Super Bowl LII, but the team lost 41-33 to the Philadelphia Eagles with Flowers recording 5 tackles in the Super Bowl.

2018 season

In a week 1 win vs the Houston Texans Flowers had 5 tackles and 1.5 sacks. In a week 2 loss vs the Jacksonville Jaguars Flowers had 1 forced fumble but was later was ruled out of the game after suffering a concussion.

References

  1. ↑ Patriots, New England. "The story behind his nickname and more fun facts. 47 seconds with @iii_flowers & @47Brand".
  2. ↑ "Arkansas true freshman and Huntsville native Trey Flowers looking forward to clash at LSU".
  3. ↑ "Rivals.com". sports.yahoo.com.
  4. ↑ "Arkansas coaches 'more welcoming' than GT's? Flowers thought so". Archived from the original on 2014-12-17.
  5. ↑ "Flowers Sports Reference profile".
  6. ↑ "Trey Flowers 2012 Game Log". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  7. ↑ writer, Pat Dooley Staff. "SEC's Top 25 Players: No. 7 Trey Flowers".
  8. ↑ "Flowers stays planted with Razorbacks".
  9. ↑ "Flowers' return provides boost for Arkansas".
  10. ↑ btoppmeyer@columbiatribune.com, Blake Toppmeyer. "Flowers returns favor to Razorbacks".
  11. ↑ "Trey Flowers Career Game Log". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  12. ↑ "2015 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  13. ↑ Cox, Zach (August 13, 2015). "Patriots' Trey Flowers Sacks Aaron Rodgers, Then Leaves With Injury". NESN.com. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Patriots sign Damaris Johnson, claim Trey Williams off waivers, place Trey Flowers on IR, sign Austin Hill to Practice Squad". Patriots.com. December 1, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
  15. ↑ "New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills - October 30th, 2016". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  16. ↑ "Super Bowl LI - New England Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons - February 5th, 2017". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  17. ↑ "Patriots-Falcons Takeaways: Trey Flowers Saves Career Game For Super Bowl LI". 6 February 2017.
  18. ↑ "Kansas City Chiefs at New England Patriots - September 7th, 2017". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
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