Height: 5-10 1/4
Weight: 235
40 Time: 4.48
Position: RB
College: Oregon
Birthdate: March 21, 1987
Hometown:
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- 4.48 40 time
NFL Draft Scouting Report
- His size coupled with a sub 4.5 speed is very interesting and worth watching what he can do in the pros.
- Posted a power clean lift of 402 lbs. during the winter of 2007 that was bettered only by NFL lineman Haloti Ngata (407 lbs.) among all-time Oregon football players.
- Also bench pressed 410 lbs. in 2006 that surpassed all running backs in school history
- 4.34 hand time clocking ranks fourth all-time among the school’s running backs. The 13-game career starter enters 2007 among the nominees for the Maxwell Award, presented annually to the outstanding collegiate football player in the country. *Combined to lift a team-high 1,342 lbs. from three lifts (power, squat and bench press) during winter workouts (5.86 times his body weight)
- 555-lb. squat ranking fifth all-time among running backs and the best mark in nine years.
Great size and power … 4.3 speed … Good receiver out of the backfield … Good cutbacks … Uses spin move … Returns kicks… It takes more than one guy to bring him down … Great strength … Moves pile … Held to 42 yards rushing on 14 carries against USC but did catch 4 passes for 22 yards and a spectacular TD on a one handed catch in the endzone after the ball was batted away from WR … Did run for one battling first down, but also lost a fumble on a bad option pitch … Ran for 105 yards and 3 TDs versus Oregon State on 17 carries and also returned 5 kickoffs for 133 yards … Scored on a 2 yard draw play, a 21 yard inside handoff turned upfield and round the corner and a 2 yard run on 4th and one with a big hole … Had a spectacular run cutting back across the field nearly breaking it, but getting 11 … Speed to get outside for 68 yard kickoff return but not fast enough to go all the way … Dropped a kickoff but recovered and broke several tackles to the 43 yard line
College career
2007
v Michigan: 8 yard run down to one as he hurdled a tackler, stayed on feet and dragged 2 DB’s to the goalline … 1 yard TD run two plays later negated by penalty … Dropped a kickoff and ended up being tackled at the 11, despite breaking about five tackles … Spectacular hurdling run, breaking tackles and driving the pile for 20 … Powered up the middle for 3 yard TD on 4th and 2 … 23 yard run with power to outside and down sideline … Bounced off tacklers up the middle for 14 on first play of second half … Rumbled for 10 more // v Arizona: 13 yard TD catch on screen pass down right side … Slipped a couple of tackles on kickoff return to the 49 … Powered for first down on 2nd and 2 … Spectacular 33 yard TD run as he bounced off tacklers up middle to run to outside and cutback at the 10 on the sideline to power over DB in at the corner // v Arizona: Hit hole hard and then eluded tackler to bounce outside for 15 … Stuffed inside his own ten on ill advised attempt to return kickoff from his own endzone … 10 yard gain on wide pitch to outside … 13 yard TD run bounced to the outside was negated by a hold // v Oregon State: Big hole, cutback and broke tackle for 17 … Ran for 161 yards on 39 carries but was stopped for a loss four times in OT including on 4th and 1 in second OT
Semifinalist for the Maxwell Award, given to the nation’s most outstanding college football player … Pac-10 Player of the Week (offense) for Week 8 after rushing for 251 yards at Washington … Oregon’s 11th different 1,000-yd rusher accumulated career single-game high 251 yds on collegiate-best 32 carries at Washington … Tallied career single-game high 310 all-purpose yds at Stanford … Eclipsed 100-yds rushing six times in 2007 to push career total to 11, tying Oregon all-time best … Oregon 10-1 when Stewart rushes for over 100 yds … League rushing and all-purpose yards leader averaging 126.9 (11th nationally) and 196.3 yds respectively … 88-yd TD run vs. Fresno State was 2nd-longest in school history … Stands 5th on school’s career rushing list (2,311) & all-time all-purpose yds (4,175) chart.
2006
Oregon’s rushing leader completed the year fifth in the Pac- 10 (46th nationally), second in all-purpose yardage (136.2 avg. – 17th in the country) and tops in kickoff returns (6th in the nation). Fell only 19 yards shy of becoming the program’s 11th different 1,000-yard runner as he finished fourth on the school’s one-season all-purpose yards chart (1,771 yards). The 12-game starter ran for a collegiate-best 168 yards in the season opener against Stanford in three quarters, following that up with four more games over the century mark. (Oregon was 5-0 when Stewart eclipsed the 100-yard rushing benchmark). Battling lingering ankle injuries for most of the season, accounted for back-to-back 100-yard rushing efforts vs. Oklahoma and Arizona State, and tallied four efforts over 200 all-purpose yards. Accumulated a career-high 222 all-purpose yards vs. the Cardinal, and added 221 yards while rushing for three touchdowns in the finale at Oregon State. The second-team all-conference choice was recognized as the Ducks’ offensive player of the week for his efforts against Stanford and Washington. The squad’s fifth-leading receiver of the year caught 20 passes for 144 yards, including a leaping 7-yard touchdown reception at USC. Accumulating 247 yards in kickoff returns over the course of his last two games, averaged 43.3 yards on three kickoff returns in the regular-season finale at Oregon State.
2005
Wasted little time in displaying his talents as Oregon’s third-leading rusher, accumulating a season-high 47 yards in his collegiate debut as a reserve behind team’s three-year starter. Included was a 33-yard effort in which he carried would-be tacklers the final 25 yards. Returned the following week to return the opening kickoff 83 yards for a score against Montana before suffering an ankle injury that would force him to the sidelines for the next two weeks and delay a return to form for several more. Added his second kickoff return for a touchdown vs. Oregon State (97 yards) — equaling the fourth-longest in school history — to become the program’s first ever to return more than one kickoff to the end zone in one season. The squad’s third-leading scorer (54 points) added seven receptions for 45 yards and one TD to complete his inaugural collegiate campaign with an 8.8-yard all-purpose average and nine touchdowns despite touching the football only 72 times. Encountered his top afternoon with a single-game best 189 all-purpose yards vs. Oregon State, including 152 yards on three kickoff returns, to be honored as the Pac-10’s Special Teams Player of the Week. Also afforded a spot on the league’s all freshman team by The Sporting News.
High School Career
Few prospects in the Northwest have attracted the attention to the magnitude of Washington’s all-time rushing leader but fewer have ever packaged the speed and power together that led ESPN.com to consider him the No. 2 prep recruit in the country. The Seattle Times went so far as to rank him as the state’s fifth-greatest running back of all time. (Ironically, former Oregon great Bobby Moore — i.e. Ahmad Rashad — was ranked No. 4.) Accumulated 7,755 yards rushing and 95 touchdowns in a career that witnessed him eclipse the 1,000-yard barrier in each of his four high school seasons. Rushed for 2,301 yards and 32 scores his final year — averaging 11.3 yards per carry — in addition to returning one of three punts 91 yards into the end zone. Was placed atop the nation’s list of running back recruits on Parade magazine’s All-America team, Student Sports Hot 100 list as well as PrepStar’s Top 100 Dream Team, and was one of five finalists for the Walter Payton Trophy (nation’s top prep player). The Washington Class 3A offensive co-player of the year (WashingtonPrep.com) and state Gatorade Player-of-the-Year recipient also was named to the 2004 All-USA high school football team by USA Today, the Long Beach Press-Telegram’s Best in the West first team, the 2005 Northwest Nuggets by The Tacoma News Tribune and as an EA Sports All-American. Playing in the 2005 U.S. Army All-American Bowl, was named The News Tribune’s 2004-05 High School Male Athlete of the Year.
Background
Born Jonathan Creon Stewart on March 21, 1987 in Fort Lewis, Wash. Parent: Lora Faison. Family: One brother. High School (Coach): Timberline (Kevin Young) 2005. Major: Political Science.