Hassan Haskins

BIOGRAPHY

Hasssan Haskins was born November 26, 1999, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a running back in the NFL.

In his redshirt freshman year at Michigan, Haskins agreed to move to defense to play linebacker. In 2019, with the graduation of Karan Higdon and the suspension of Chris Evans, Haskins moved back to running back to improve the depth at the position. Haskins had his breakout game on October 12, 2019 when he carried 12 times for 125 yards with his first collegiate touchdown against Illinois. In his first collegiate start on October 26, 2019 against Notre Dame, Haskins had 20 carries for 149 yards including a 49-yard long rush. He finished the 2019 season with 121 carries for 622 yards and four touchdowns. Haskins claimed that spending time at linebacker gave him a better vision of the running lanes and helped him see what opposing defenses were trying to do.

On November 27, 2021, in a game against Ohio State, Haskins recorded five rushing touchdowns. Haskins finished the regular season with 1,232 rushing yards on 244 carries (an average of 5.0 yards per carry) and tied for second in program history with 18 single-season rushing touchdowns (tying Anthony Thomas and Chris Perry). He was selected as a first-team running back on the 2021 All-Big Ten football team. With two rushing touchdowns in the 2021 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Haskins set the single-season program record with 20 rushing touchdowns, surpassing the previous record of 19 set by Ron Johnson in 1968. At that point, he has carried the ball 443 times since 2019 without a single fumble – the most in college football over the span.

In the 2022 NFL Draft, Hassan Haskins was taken 131st overall by the Tennessee Titans.

On December 29, while helping fill in for injured Derrick Henry, Haskins rushed 12 times for 40 yards and caught two of three targets for 13 yards during a 27-13 Week 17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.