Björn Werner

• Indianapolis Colts (since 2013)

Bjoern Werner ( born August 30, 1990 in Berlin, Germany ) is a German American football player at the position of the defensive ends. He plays for the Indianapolis Colts in the National Football League ( NFL).

Youth

Werner began his career in the youth of the Berlin Adler and also played for the High School of Salisbury, Connecticut. He was appointed to the World XI "The World", which played in the run up to the Pro Bowl on January 30, 2010 in Fort Lauderdale against a panel of American high school players.

College

Bjoern Werner was rated by Scout.com four out of five stars and received offers from 13 universities, college football at the highest level play. Werner decided to play in February 2010 for the " Seminoles " Florida State University.

In his first ( maximum of four ) Uni - year, as a " freshman ", he played in all 14 games, scored 20 tackles, including six for loss of space, and 3.5 sack. In addition, he received an award for his good grade point average and was awarded in early 2011 as the most important defender of his team.

At the start of the 2011 season caused Werner, who will wear the number 95 was in college, at the opponent a fumble. In the third match played his Seminoles were ranked as the fifth- best college team to two victories, against the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners. Werner was there one of the best defensive players of his team, led the vote " tackles for loss", among others. Carried a sack of Landry Jones, who was limited to less than 200 yards extra space most recently in 2009 The Seminoles ' defense were able thus to keep open despite violations of important offensive player the game long, but lost at the end of 23:13. In the game his team Werner's performance was also highlighted as through TV commentators who compared the role of German as performers with that of Dirk Nowitzki. In the fourth game, the Seminoles lost at Clemson, where Werner intercepted a ball and contributed 25 yards for a touchdown. Since the ball was not thrown forward, it was instead considered later in the statistics as a " fumble recovery " as " Interception". When 38:7 victory in Boston Werner captured on November 5, among other things, a lost ball and intercepted a pass, and he was elected by the FSU fans the first defender named MVP of the game.

NFL

On April 25, 2013 Bjoern Werner was Drafts selected in the first round of the NFL in 2013 as 24 players from the Indianapolis Colts. He is the first German football player, who was signed in the first round of the selection process. Despite a foot injury and a switch to the position of Outside linebackers, he played 13 of 16 games of the regular season and contributed with 18 tackles and 2.5 sack to the fact that Indianapolis with 11:5 victories won their division and reached the play-offs.