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| No. 9 Calgary Stampeders | |
| Date of birth: | November 5, 1984 |
| Place of birth: | New Westminster, BC |
| Career information | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Active |
| CFL status: | Non-import |
| Position(s): | RB |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight: | 205 lb (93 kg) |
| College: | Kansas |
| High school: | St. Thomas More |
| CFL Draft: | 2006 / Round: 2 / Pick: 13 |
| Drafted by: | Calgary Stampeders |
| Organizations | |
| As player: | |
| 2007-present | Calgary Stampeders |
| CFL West All-Star: | 2011 |
| Playing stats at CFL.ca | |
Jon Cornish (born November 5, 1984 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a football running back who currently plays for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League.
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Cornish attended high school at the highly sports oriented St. Thomas More Collegiate in Burnaby, where he participated actively in basketball, track & field and football. During his first two years at Kansas, Cornish saw very limited playing time as he only got 3 carries for 8 yards. However, his junior year was his breakout season as he rushed for 780 yards. Following his junior season, Cornish was drafted in the Canadian Football League draft. In his senior year he rushed for 1,457 yards, making him the all-time single season rusher at the University of Kansas. He averaged 5.8 yards per carry, scored 8 rushing touchdowns, 1 passing touchdown, and had 8 games of 100 yards of rushing or more. Cornish finished the season as the 9th leading rusher in NCAA Division I-A football and the 1st in rushing in the Big 12 Conference. Jon's career high rushing in a single game came on November 18, 2006, when he rushed for 201 yards and two touchdowns against Kansas State.
Cornish was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders in the 2nd round, 13th overall, in the 2006 CFL Draft,[1] but played out his final year at Kansas. He signed with the Stampeders on April 30, 2007, spending most of his time with the special teams unit.[2] Cornish would see increased repetitions with the offense in 2008 and 2009 and was a part of the 2008 Grey Cup Championship Team. In 2008, he also scored his first professional touchdown against his hometown BC Lions in the last game of the regular season.
| Rushing | Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | Games | No. | Yards | Avg | Long | TD | Games | No. | Yards | Avg | Long | TD | ||
| 2007 | CGY | 18 | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2008 | CGY | 18 | 30 | 254 | 8.5 | 48 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2009 | CGY | 15 | 20 | 105 | 5.3 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2010 | CGY | 18 | 85 | 618 | 7.3 | 52 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 10.3 | 28 | 0 | ||
| CFL totals | 69 | 137 | 1,007 | 7.4 | 52 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 31 | 10.3 | 28 | 0 | |||
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