BIOGRAPHY
Dwayne Haskins was born on May 3rd, 1997 in Highland Park New Jersey. He is a quarterback in the NFL.
Haskins moved from Highland Park, New Jersey to Potomac, Maryland when he was in the ninth grade where he played football at the Bullis School from 2013-2016. In high school, he threw for more than 5,000 yards and 54 touchdowns. He received nearly 40 offers from elite Division 1 schools including Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson, Florida State, Miami, Michigan, and Notre Dame, to name a few. Haskins initially committed to the University of Maryland over Rutgers University before deicing to attend The Ohio State University.
Haskins redshirted his freshman year and was the backup to J.T. Barret the following year, finishing the season completing 40 of 57 passes for 565 yards and four touchdowns. Haskins then went on to have a record-setting campaign in his sophomore season in 2018, which was his lone starting season at the school. He claimed the single-season passing and touchdown records for Ohio State and the Big Ten by eclipsing the 4,000-passing yards mark and throwing 50 touchdowns, making him just one of six NCAA quarterbacks to ever achieve the latter in a single season. Additionally, Haskins claimed school records in total offense in a season (4,900+ yards), total offensive yards in a game (477) and total passing yards in a game (470). In all 12 of his starts, he threw for more than 225 passing yards, including eight games of more than 300 yards, and four games of more than 400. He threw for 499 yards and five touchdowns in the 2018 Big Ten Football Championship Game while throwing three touchdowns in the 2019 Rose Bowl, winning the MVP award in both games for his performance. His performance also earned him First-Team All-Big Ten honors, as well as six Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week awards, the Graham–George Offensive Player of the Year, the Griese–Brees Quarterback of the Year, the Chicago Tribune Silver Football, and the Male Ohio State Athlete of the Year awards. He was also named as a semifinalist for the Maxwell Award and finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting. As a student at Ohio State, he majored in journalism. In January 2019, Haskins announced that we would forgo his remaining two years of college football and enter the 2019 NFL Draft.
Dwayne Haskins was selected in the first round with the 15th overall pick by the Washington Redskins in the 2019 NFL Draft. Haskins will be the fourth healthy signal-caller on the roster -- joining veterans Colt McCoy and Case Keenum and newly-signed Josh Woodrum -- and will be expected to compete for the starting job during training camp this summer. Despite his college jersey number of 7 being unofficially retired by the Redskins in honor of quarterback Joe Theismann since the 1980s, he requested and was granted permission from Theismann to wear it. Haskins signed his four-year rookie contract on May 9, 2019.
