Creed Humphrey
Creed Humphrey (born June 28, 1999) is an American football center for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oklahoma, where he was named the Big 12 Conference's offensive lineman of the year in 2019 and 2020. He was drafted by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.
No. 52 – Kansas City Chiefs
June 28, 1999
Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S.
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
302 lb (137 kg)
Shawnee (OK)
Oklahoma (2017–2020)
2021 / Round: 2 / Pick: 63
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Early years[edit]
Humphrey attended the Shawnee High School in Shawnee, Oklahoma.[1] He played both center and defensive line on the football team. Humphrey played in the 2017 U.S. Army All-American Game.[2] Humphrey was a highly-touted prospect, with a four-star rating from 247Sports. He was ranked 294th overall in his recruiting class, but was the 5th-best prospect from the State of Oklahoma and the 3rd-best center in the country.[3]
Humphrey received nineteen scholarship offers from programs like Alabama, Texas A&M, Texas, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, and Virginia Tech. He initially committed to Texas A&M in June 2016 but decommitted two months later and signed a National Letter of Intent with Oklahoma.[4] He is Indigenous Potawatomi, and is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.[5]
College career[edit]
Humphrey redshirted his first year at Oklahoma in 2017.[6] He played in all 14 games with 12 starts in 2018.[7][8][9] He returned as the starting center for Oklahoma in 2019 and 2020, being named the Big 12 Conference's offensive lineman of the year in both seasons.[10][11] Following the 2020 season Humphrey announced he would be forgoing his final year of eligibility and declared for the 2021 NFL draft.[12]