LeSean McCoy

As a junior, he ran for 2,828 yards, scored 35 touchdowns, and earned Associated Press Class AAAA player of the year, Offensive MVP of the Mid-Penn Commonwealth Conference, 1st team Associated Press All-State.

As a high school senior, he earned first team Class AAAA Associated Press All-State; During his senior season, McCoy had committed to Miami.

LeSean Kamel McCoy (born July 12, 1988), nicknamed "Shady", is an American former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL).

McCoy attended Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 2002 to 2006.

In his senior year of high school, McCoy suffered a major ankle injury, which threatened his career.

At the 2004 State College NIKE Training Camp, McCoy recorded a 4.23 40-yard dash, the fastest 40-time of the event.

McCoy was "rated the nation's number 11 high school prospect" by recruiting analyst Tom Lemming.

However, academic issues and a broken ankle led McCoy to attend prep school at Milford Academy in New Berlin, New York for the 2006–07 school year.

He had been invited to play in the Big 33 Football Classic and the U.S. Army All-American Bowl that year, but ultimately did not participate in those games as he was still recovering from his injury.

A 2006 ESPN evaluation described him as "lightning in a bottle every time he touches the ball."

He started the season as a backup to LaRod Stephens-Howling who was the starting running back in 2006 and rushed for over 890 yards the previous season.

In his first year at Pittsburgh in 2007, McCoy rushed for over 1,300 yards and recorded 14 touchdowns.

Following a coaching change at Miami, McCoy committed to the University of Pittsburgh on February 16, 2007.

In August 2007, Dave Grdnic wrote for Panthers Digest, "After just one week, LeSean McCoy has been as amazing as advertised. He's been dynamic on the field and off, banging up the middle on runs as hard as he bolts around end and talking just as good a game to the media.

As a freshman, McCoy was the point-man for the "Wildcat offense" which the Pittsburgh Panthers unveiled in a September 2007 game against the Michigan State Spartans.

In the Wildcat offense, McCoy lined up as quarterback in a shotgun formation and took direct snaps from center, A Sporting News article credited him for having one of the "best starts by a freshman running back at Pittsburgh since Tony Dorsett", while the Wildcat offense was criticized.

"McCoy might need to be a combination of both Dorsett and Dan Marino for the Panthers to start producing some offense other than through his running."

On October 2, 2007, ESPN writer Pat Forde featured McCoy under the "instant impact" section of his column.

In 2008, McCoy was selected as a second-team All-American.

His 21 rushing touchdowns were third in the nation, only one behind the two leaders.

He played college football at Pittsburgh and was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft.

In 2010, McCoy took over as the starting running back for the Eagles, and broke the 1,000-yard rushing barrier.

McCoy was named to the National Football League 2010s All-Decade Team; no player scored more touchdowns, ran for more yards, or gained more yards from scrimmage than McCoy did from 2010 to 2019.

McCoy was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

His nickname is "Shady" and was given to him by his mother because of his mood swings where he would one second be happy and laughing and the next second be upset and crying.

He attended Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg, the same high school attended by NFL running back Ricky Watters.

He played high school football for the Crusaders while there.

As a sophomore, he once rushed for 406 yards in a game.

In 2011, McCoy was named First team All-Pro by the Associated Press.

In 2012, McCoy suffered a concussion that limited him to only 12 games.

In 2012, McCoy's high school number (20) was retired at Bishop McDevitt.

The only other McDevitt player whose number has been retired is Ricky Watters.

McCoy entered Pittsburgh after finishing at Milford Academy.

In 2013, McCoy led the NFL in rushing yards with 1,607, shattering the team's individual single-season rushing yards record that stood for 34 years.

McCoy went on to become the all-time leading rusher for the Eagles after the 2014 season, breaking the record previously held by Wilbert Montgomery.

In the 2015 offseason, McCoy was traded to the Buffalo Bills for linebacker Kiko Alonso.

After the trade, he signed a new five-year contract worth $40 million.

McCoy made the Pro Bowl in each of his first three years in Buffalo, helping the team snap a 17-year playoff drought, and became one of a few select NFL running backs to surpass 10,000 career rushing yards.

After playing four seasons with the Bills, he was released prior to the 2019 season.

He would finish his career with one season stints with the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2019 and 2020 respectively, winning a Super Bowl each season.