Ezekiel Elliott – Bio, Girlfriend, Wife, Parents, Salary, Height, Weight

Quick Facts

Ezekiel Elliott came into the National Football League (NFL) as the fourth overall in the 2016 NFL Draft picked by the Dallas Cowboys. He has been with the Cowboys since then, playing the position of a running back. This lad has shown himself to be exceptional and a talking point on and off the pitch. In the not so distant past, he was talked about for somewhat not so laudable reasons for which his earning has been tampered with.

Find out all there is to know about him here including who his parents are, his wife and what body stats he possesses that have made him one of the best footballers to be playing on the American soil.

Background

Ezekiel Elijah Elliott was born on July 22, 1995, in Alton, Illinois into a family of athletes. He has as his siblings two sisters.

As Elliot came of age, he got enrolled at John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri where he played football, baseball, and basketball as well as ran track. Elliott, however, honed his football skills the more with the John Burroughs Bombers football team for which reason he was named the St. Louis Post-Dispatch offensive player of the year 2012 (junior year). Coming to his senior year, the football whizzkid led his team to three championship games at a stretch but they lost all.

The Alton, Illinois kid began his college career at Ohio State University in 2013 where he enrolled to study marketing and completed it in 2015. His college career right from the onset showed sings that Ezekiel Elliott knew the rudiments of football like it is what he was born to do. To this, he has since then lived up to expectations in the NFL.

In Elliot’s first year of college, the lad rushed 262 yards on 30 carries – securing two touchdowns in the season as a backup to first-team pick Carlos Hyde. Coming into his second season as Hyde departed, Elliot became a starter for which reason he found ample playing time. He recorded 246 yards on 36 carries with four touchdowns to cap the season for his college side.

Ezekiel joined the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL in 2016 for a $24.9 million contract signed on May 18, 2016. He has been with the team since then though with a few issues here and there which have gone on to affect his time on the pitch and his earnings. You will learn more of it below.

Ezekiel Elliott’s Parents, Girlfriend, Wife

Ezekiel Elliott was born into a family of athletes as traced back to his maternal grandfather who played basketball for Drake University in his youth. His mother Dawn Huff participated in three sports in her own time to which she was a high school state champion prior to her attending the University of Missouri where she would then meet Elliot’s father – Stacy Elliott.

Stacy played college football with the Missouri Tigers football team of the University of Missouri as a linebacker. There is no doubt that his son inherited his pigskin sports talent from him and has gone on to perform even better. Ezekiel has as his sisters – Aaliyah and Lailah who are both doing well in their respective careers.

Like most other footballers, the running back’s life has not been totally void of love, albeit he is single now. Love once found Ezekiel Elliott with Tiffany Thompson who works at a nightclub in Ohio.

However, come July 22, 2016, Tiffany accused the Dallas Cowboy footballer of being violent towards her in Columbus, Ohio. Following the accusation, the BFL launched an investigation from which they arrived at a decision to ban Ezekiel Elliott from his first six games at the beginning of the 2017 season.

Elliot on several times appealed against the ban but was unsuccessful each time. He cited (as ) that his now ex-girlfriend had an intimate relationship with his teammate Lucky Whitehead and in addition to ruin his career, saying that ‘You are a black male athlete. I’m a white girl. They are not going to believe you.’ All these happened in 2017.

Well, as you would easily infer, the two are no longer together, and Ezekiel Elliott has been reported to have gotten for himself a new girlfriend called Halle Woodard. Halle, according to reports, has the blessings of Elliot’s mum in the relationship.

Salary

On May 18, 2016, the Michigan State Spartan prodigy signed a four-year rookie contract with the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL worth $24.9 million with a $16.3 million signing bonus. At this salary, Ezekiel Elliott had an average base salary of $1,584,379 in 2017 and $4,087,516 in 2018.

However, following his 2017 suspension and his unsuccessful appeal against it, it was that the footballer would repay over $1.4 million being $240, 000 for each of the six games suspension.

Height and Weight

The footballer stands at a height of 6 feet 0 inches from the ground which is equivalent to 1.83 m. With this height, Ezekiel Elliott weighs 225 lbs or 102 kg.

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