Anthony Barr (born March 18, 1992) is an
American football
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outside linebacker
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for the
Dallas Cowboys
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of the
National Football League
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(NFL). He played
college football
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Unlike most ...
for the
UCLA Bruins
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from 2010 to 2013, where he was a consensus
All-American in 2013. He was drafted by the Vikings in the first round, ninth overall of the
2014 NFL Draft
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.
Barr was an offensive player his first two years at UCLA, playing
running back
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,
wide receiver and
tight end
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. He struggled as a running back, and switched to linebacker during his junior year, at which position he was named a first-team All-
Pac-12
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selection and to the
CBSSports.com All-America second-team. As a senior Barr received the
Lott IMPACT Award after leading the team in sacks.
In 2014, Barr's first season playing professional football in the NFL, he was named
NFC
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Defensive Player of the Week for Week 8 and selected for the
Pro Football Focus
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All-NFC North Team. His rookie season was cut short due to a knee injury. Following that season he made four consecutive Pro Bowl appearances (20152018). In the spring of 2019, he signed a five-year extension of his contract with the Vikings.
High school career
Barr was born in
South Bend, Indiana
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, but raised in
Los Angeles
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, where he attended
Loyola High School in the
Pico-Union
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neighborhood. He was a
letterman
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in football and track, and was an All-State selection at
running back
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for the Loyola Cubs
football
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team after rushing for 1,890 yards and 20
touchdowns
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as a junior. However, he missed virtually all of his senior season after breaking his ankle in the September, and was also unable to participate in the 2010
U.S. Army All-American Bowl, to which he was invited.
Barr also lettered four seasons in
track and field
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. At the 2009 CIF Southern Prelims, he earned 11th-place finishes in both the
100 meter (11.01 s) and the
200 meter (22.40 s) dashes. He took silver in the 200 meter dash at the 2009 Mission League Championships, recording a personal-best time of 21.86 seconds.
Recruiting
Regarded as a four-star recruit by
Rivals.com
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, Barr was listed as the No. 8 prospect and the No. 5 athlete out of the state of
California
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. According to
Scout.com
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, he was ranked as the No. 100 national prospect and the No. 10 outside linebacker. He was also rated as the No. 1 athlete by
MaxPreps
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. With scholarship offers from dozens of schools, Barr narrowed his decision down to
Notre Dame and UCLA, before choosing the Bruins on January 21, 2010.
College career
Barr was an offensive player his first two years at the
University of California, Los Angeles
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, playing running back, wide receiver and tight end. On October 21, 2010, against the Oregon Ducks, Barr made his first start, and he made 1 catch for 17 yards. In 2011, he caught an 11-yard touchdown pass against the
Houston Cougars. Although he started 12 games on offense in both years,
he ran the ball 15 times for 54 yards.
Barr struggled at being a running back, which almost caused him to quit football. However, prior to his junior season in 2012, he switched to linebacker.
During Barr's first year as a linebacker, he recorded 13.5 sacks, 21.5 tackles for loss and 83 tackles. His 13.5 sacks were the second-highest total in the nation (behind only Georgia's
Jarvis Jones
Jarvis Jerrell Jones (born October 13, 1989) is a former American football linebacker. He played college football for the University of Georgia, and was recognized as a consensus All-American twice. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in ...
). He was named a first-team All-
Pac-12
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and was selected to the
CBSSports.com College Football All-America second-team. In Week 11, Barr was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week after his performance against the
Washington State Cougars
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. At the team's annual awards banquet, Barr was named the Most Valuable Player on defense (
Henry R. "Red" Sanders Award). In a November 2012 game against the
USC Trojans
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, Barr sacked quarterback
Matt Barkley
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, who suffered a season-ending shoulder injury.
In six games, Barr made more than 7 tackles, including nine against Stanford, eight in the
Pac-12 Football Championship game, and nine in the
Holiday Bowl
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against Baylor.
[ Despite being touted as a potential first-round draft choice in the ]2013 NFL Draft
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, Barr decided to return to UCLA
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for his senior season. On July 8, 2013, Barr was ranked 37th as a possibility for the Maxwell Award
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and 3rd as a candidate for the Chuck Bednarik Award
The Chuck Bednarik Award is presented annually to the defensive player in college football as judged by the Maxwell Football Club to be the best in the United States. The award is named for Chuck Bednarik, a former college and professional Ame ...
. On July 15, 2013, Barr was named as a candidate for the Butkus Award
The Butkus Award, instituted in 1985 by the Downtown Athletic Club of Orlando, is given annually to the top linebackers at the high school, collegiate and professional levels of football. The award, named in honor of College Football Hall of Fame ...
and the Lombardi Award
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. He was also named to the 2013 preseason All-American team.
Barr was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week after week 2 of the 2013 season, a 41–21 win over Nebraska on September 14, 2013. He was also the Walter Camp Football Foundation
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player of the week on defense. For the 2013 regular season, Barr had 62 tackles, 20 for a loss (ranked 9th) and has forced five fumbles (fifth best) and recovered four (second in the nation). He led the team with 10 sacks for 66 yards and was rewarded with the Lott IMPACT Award. Barr is in sixth place on the all-time school list for tackles for loss (41.5) and is tied for sixth on the school's all-time list for sacks (23.5). On December 11, 2013, Barr was named to the first-team All-American by the USA Today
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, becoming the first UCLA player since Kai Forbath
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to do so.
Statistics
Professional career
Barr was listed as one of the top linebacker prospects for the 2014 NFL Draft
The 2014 NFL draft was the 79th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible football players to the league. The draft, officially the "Player Selection Meeting", was held at Radio City Music Hall in New Y ...
. After the college season concluded, he was projected as the No. 3 selection in the 2014 NFL Draft
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by ''Sports Illustrated''. At the 2014 NFL Combine, Barr ran the 40-yard dash in 4.66 seconds, sixth-best among linebackers, and tied for 14th in the vertical (34.5 inches). His 15 reps on the bench press were also dead last among those who participated, according to NFL.com
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's combine tracker. At the UCLA Pro Day on March 11, he ran an electronic 4.41 in the 40-yard dash
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, did 19 repetitions on the bench press
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and had a 10-foot-5 (3.20 meters) broad jump
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.
Barr was selected in the first round, ninth overall by the Minnesota Vikings
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, making him the highest selected defensive player out of UCLA since Eric Turner, second overall in 1991
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. He is the first UCLA player to be a top-10 selection since Jonathan Ogden
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, who was selected sixth overall in 1996
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. He also surpassed Jamir Miller
Jamir Malik Miller (born November 19, 1973) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, earning consensus All-A ...
, who was chosen tenth overall in 1994
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, as the highest Bruins linebacker ever selected.
Nate Cohn
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Early life and ...
of ''The New York Times
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'' in 2022 listed Barr and Ryan Mathews as the only two of 19 top NFL draft picks since 2005 whose careers justified being chosen much earlier than their ESPN draft ranking.
Minnesota Vikings
2014 season
Barr signed a four-year, $12.7 million contract with the Vikings. He received a $7.6 million signing bonus and the team could exercise a fifth-year option. Barr played in and started 12 games for the Vikings and was awarded NFC defensive player of the week for week 8. Barr's 2014 season was cut short due to an injury and he was put on injured reserve. He ended his rookie season with 70 combined tackles, four sacks, two forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries (one returned for a touchdown) and three pass deflections. He was a top contender for defensive rookie of the year and one of three Viking defenders named to the PFF All-NFC North Team.
2015 season
In the first game of the season, Barr played all 73 defensive snaps against the San Francisco 49ers
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and recorded a career-high 12 tackles. He was credited with nine solo stops. In a Week 4 loss against the eventual Super Bowl 50
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champions Denver Broncos
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, Barr recorded his first career interception off a pass thrown by Peyton Manning
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. Barr broke his left hand in Week 9 (November 8), but in Week 12 he had a career-high eight tackles (seven solo), one sack, and forced two fumbles. For the season, he totaled 68 tackles, four tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, eight quarterback hurries, one interception, seven passes defensed, and three forced fumbles. On January 25, 2016, Barr was named to his first Pro Bowl
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The format has changed thro ...
.
2016 season
Barr struggled during the 2016 season, as he had only 37 solo tackles and two sacks. Despite a poor season in which coach Zimmer stated that Barr had a "tendency to coast," Barr was named to his second straight Pro Bowl.
2017 season
On May 1, 2017, the Vikings exercised the fifth year option on Barr's contract. Barr had 75 tackles, 33 solo tackles, 52 assisted tackles, and one sack. On December 19, 2017, Barr was named to his third straight Pro Bowl.
On October 15, 2017, during the Vikings 23–10 victory against the Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. It ...
, Barr recorded a hit that knocked Aaron Rodgers
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out of the game, injuring his collarbone. In an interview with Conan O'Brien
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, Rodgers claimed that Barr gave him "the finger" and told him to "suck it". Packers head coach Mike McCarthy
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called Barr's hit "illegal". In numerous tweets, Barr stated that Rodgers started trash-talking him, as well as stating that Rodgers "needs to get over it". Barr stated that he isn't a "dirty player", as well as insisting that he didn't intend to injure Rodgers. In March 2018, a photo of Barr's hit on Rodgers was sold at the Rosedale Center
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. On December 22, 2019, the Minneapolis Star Tribune
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received criticism from Packers fans after the newspaper included a photograph of Barr's hit on Rodgers in a column that summarized the 2010s in Minnesota sports.
In the Vikings' Divisional Round win over the New Orleans Saints
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, Barr intercepted a Drew Brees
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pass that was tipped at the line of scrimmage by teammate Everson Griffen
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.
2018 season
Barr was named to his fourth straight Pro Bowl. He finished the 2018 regular season with 55 tackles, three sacks, and one forced fumble in 13 games. On October 2, 2018, Barr was fined $30,080 for a face mask penalty along with horse collar penalties during a Week 3 matchup against the Buffalo Bills
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. On October 21, 2018, Barr suffered a hamstring injury against the New York Jets
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, ending a streak where he started in 44 games. Barr went on to miss three games, but returned on November 25 against the Packers.
2019 season
On March 11, 2019, it was reported that Barr would be signing a multi-year deal with the New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The J ...
. However, Barr changed his mind and re-signed with the Vikings on March 13, 2019, on a five-year, $67.5 million contract with $33 million guaranteed. In Week 5, Barr recorded his first interception since 2015 when he intercepted Daniel Jones in a win over the New York Giants
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. On October 26, 2019, Barr received a fine for a hit on Matthew Stafford
John Matthew Stafford (born February 7, 1988) is an American football quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia, where he was a first-team All-American, and was selected f ...
during a Week 7 matchup against the Detroit Lions
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. On December 2, 2019, Barr recorded a season-high 11 tackles against the Seattle Seahawks
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. Throughout the year, Barr has had 79 tackles, 54 solo tackles, 25 assisted tackles, 1.5 sacks, and 1 interception.
In the divisional round of the playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers
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, Barr forced a fumble on running back Matt Breida
Matthew John Breida (born February 28, 1995) is an American football running back for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia Southern and signed with the 49ers as an undrafted free agent ...
and recovered the football, but the Vikings lost 27–10.
2020 season
Barr was placed on the reserve/COVID-19
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list by the Vikings on July 30, 2020, and activated from the list four days later. He was placed on injured reserve on September 21, 2020, after suffering a torn pectoral muscle
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P ...
in Week 2.
Dallas Cowboys
2022 season
On August 3, 2022, Barr signed with the Dallas Cowboys
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.
NFL career statistics
Personal life
Barr's father, Tony Brooks, and uncles, Reggie Brooks
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He is the uncle to Minnesota Vikings Linebacker Anthon ...
and Cedric Figaro, all played in the NFL. All of them also played at Notre Dame. Shortly after his birth in South Bend, Barr and his mother moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles where he was raised by his mother and maternal grandparents.[
In 2016, Anthony Barr established "Raise the Barr", a nonprofit initiative to assist single-parent undergraduate students in ]Minnesota
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and California
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complete their post-secondary education by providing comprehensive resources to both parents and children. It raised over $250,000 to single parents and provided them with college and emergency grants.[ On June 27, 2018, it launched new emergency grant funding at Loyola High School, raising $50,000 in assistance, ticket sales, and auctioning.]
References
External links
Minnesota Vikings bio
UCLA Bruins bio
Anthony Barr Timeline Events
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1992 births
Living people
All-American college football players
American football linebackers
Dallas Cowboys players
Ed Block Courage Award recipients
Minnesota Vikings players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
People from San Pedro, Los Angeles
Players of American football from South Bend, Indiana
Players of American football from Los Angeles
UCLA Bruins football players
Unconferenced Pro Bowl players