| Craphonso Thorpe |
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At Florida State: An All-America and Biletnikoff Award
candidate as senior in 2004...the Seminoles' big-play receiver a
year ago as he led the team with 994 yards and 11 touchdowns on
51 catches despite missing the final two games...listed as the starter
at flanker entering fall practice...enters his senior season as the
team's leading receiver
for the third consecutive
season...currently 15 th
all-time in career receiving
yards and tied for 14 th
all-time with 16 career
TDs...will be counted on
to lead a young receiving
corps...83 career receptions
are 46% of the total
career receptions for the
entire group of wide receivers
entering the 2004
campaign...has 2,515
yards of total offense in
his 36-game career,
which averages almost 70
yards per game...returned
39 career kickoffs
for 845 yards and a 21.7
yards per return average...regarded as one of the country's fastest
wide receivers, Thorpe won the 100 and 200 at the ACC Outdoor
Track Championships in the spring of 2003 to lead FSU to the men's
title and was named ACC Outdoor Track Performer of the Year
...was held out of spring drills after breaking his leg in overtime
against NC State last November.
Junior Year (2003): A first team All-ACC selection and a
Biletnikoff Award semifinalist...started the first 11 games of the
season at flanker before breaking his leg in overtime against NC
State...missed the Florida game and Orange Bowl rematch with
Miami...finished 19 th in the nation in receiving yards per game...his
receiving yardage total of 994 yards ranks 11 th all-time at FSU while
his 11 touchdowns tied for the sixth-highest in school history...set
new career-highs for receptions, touchdowns and yards and topped
his career totals in each category in just one season as a starter...seven
of the 11 touchdown grabs were on plays of at least 25 yards...led
the conference with 11 receiving TDs and was third in the ACC with
an average of 90.4 receiving yards per game...had a pair of 200-
yard receiving games...top returning receiver in the ACC for career
yards per catch (20.0)...only Xavier Beitia scored more points in
2003 than Thorpe...caught eight passes for 205 yards and scored
two touchdowns against Colorado...hauled in seven passes for a
career-high 217 yards and two TDs at Notre Dame (the most
receiving yards ever recorded against the Fighting Irish)...went
over the century mark at Virginia with three receptions for 104
yards...caught six passes for 66 yards and scored two touchdowns
against Wake Forest...had five receptions for 76 yards and two
touchdowns in the win over NC State...returned two kickoffs for 62
yards, including a 43-yarder vs. Georgia Tech.
Sophomore Year (2002): Played in all 14 of Florida State's
games including the Sugar Bowl against Georgia...led the Seminoles
in yards per catch with a career-high 22.2 yard average...
ranked third on the team with four touchdown catches, fourth on the
team with 377 receiving yards, tied four fourth with 17 receptions
and fourth with 26.9 receiving yards per game average...had the
offense's longest play of the season when he hauled in a 72-yard
pass against Georgia Tech...finished the Georgia Tech game with
two catches for a single-game 75 yards...also reached the 70-yard
receiving mark with three catches for 70 yards and a touchdown in
Florida State's victory over Duke and with three catches for 74
yards against North Carolina...multiple catches in five of 13 games
and at least one reception in nine of 13 games...his touchdown grab
against Georgia was a 40-yard strike from Anquan Boldin...ranked
third on the team in kickoff returns with 11 returns for 222 yards and
a 20.2 yards per return average...ranked among the team's top three
in kickoff returns in 2002 after leading the team as a freshman.
Freshman Year (2001): Played in all 12 games including the
Gator Bowl victory over Virginia Tech...led the team with 561
kickoff return yards, finished second on the team with 852 all-purpose
yards, was fourth on the team with 286 receiving yards and
fifth on the team with 15 receptions...ranked seventh in the ACC
with a 21.2 yards per kickoff average...caught passes in eight of 11
regular season games and had at least one catch in each of the last
five games...established his season-high for receptions in a game
with five in his first career game against Duke...his five receptions
went for his season-high of 68 yards...gained his first career
touchdown reception on his second career catch on a 33-yard pass
from Chris Rix...had seventh in the ACC and led the team with a
21.6 yard average on 26 kickoff returns...fell just three returns short
of the school record for kickoff returns in a single season...fell only
23 yards short of breaking the school-record of 583 kickoff return
yards...ranked second on the team in all-purpose yards with a 77.5
yards per game average...career-high 155 all-purpose yards came
at North Carolina with 38 yards receiving and 117 yards on kickoff
returns...his longest kickoff return of 41 yards came against
Clemson and was the longest kickoff return of the season for the
Seminoles...more than 100 yards of all-purpose yards against
North Carolina, Maryland, Clemson and NC State.
High School: Graduated from Tallahassee's Lincoln High
School in 2001...a USA Today Second Team All-USA second-team
selection his senior season...named to the Super Southern
team by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the All-Southern
Team by the Orlando Sentinel...named to Max Emfinger's na-tional
Nifty 150 list and Rivals.com's Top 100 list...one of the
nation's top receivers and the state of Florida's top cornerbacks...
caught 64 passes for 1,025 yards and eight touchdowns and returned
two kickoffs and two punts for touchdowns his senior season
...recorded 24 tackles, three interceptions, 14 pass break-ups and
recovered two fumbles at the cornerback position...helped lead
Lincoln to the Class 6A state championship his senior season...
selected Florida State over Florida, Tennessee, Miami, Georgia
Tech and Alabama.
Personal: Born June 27, 1983...major is sport management.