James Wilder Jr.
Wilder yells during a 2018 regular season game | |||||||||||||
| Profile | |||||||||||||
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| Position | Running back | ||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||
| Born | April 14, 1992 Tampa, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 232 lb (105 kg) | ||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||
| High school | Henry B. Plant (Tampa) | ||||||||||||
| College | Florida State | ||||||||||||
| NFL draft | 2014: undrafted | ||||||||||||
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* Offseason and/or practice squad member only | |||||||||||||
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| Stats at Pro Football Reference | |||||||||||||
James Curtis Wilder Jr. (born April 14, 1992) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for five seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Toronto Argonauts and Edmonton Elks, winning the Grey Cup in 2017 and the CFL's Most Outstanding Rookie Award for 2017. Wilder played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, where he was part of the team that won the 2014 BCS National Championship Game. He was also a member of the Cincinnati Bengals, Buffalo Bills, and Montreal Alouettes but did not appear in any games for those teams.