Austin Booker
American football player (born 2002)
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Austin Booker (born December 14, 2002) is an American professional football defensive end for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Kansas Jayhawks.
Greenwood, Indiana, U.S.
| No. 94 – Chicago Bears | |||||||||||
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| Position | Defensive end | ||||||||||
| Roster status | Active | ||||||||||
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| Born | December 14, 2002 Greenwood, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||||
| Listed weight | 245 lb (111 kg) | ||||||||||
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| High school | Center Grove (Greenwood, Indiana) | ||||||||||
| College | Minnesota (2021–2022) Kansas (2023) | ||||||||||
| NFL draft | 2024: 5th round, 144th overall pick | ||||||||||
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| Career NFL statistics as of 2025 | |||||||||||
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Early life
Booker attended Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana. As a junior, he had 67 tackles and eight sacks. He committed to the University of Minnesota to play college football.[1]
College career
Booker played at Minnesota from 2021 to 2022. After redshirting his first year, he played in six games in 2022 and had two tackles. After the season, he entered the transfer portal and transferred to the University of Kansas.[2][3] In his lone season at Kansas, he played in 12 games and had 56 tackles and eight sacks.[4] After the season, he entered the 2024 NFL draft.[5] He sat out the 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl in order to prepare for the draft.[6]
Professional career
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | Wingspan | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | |
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| 6 ft 4+1⁄2 in (1.94 m) | 240 lb (109 kg) | 33+7⁄8 in (0.86 m) | 9+1⁄4 in (0.23 m) | 6 ft 9+3⁄8 in (2.07 m) | 4.78 s | 1.69 s | 2.80 s | 4.47 s | 7.28 s | 32.5 in (0.83 m) | 10 ft 0 in (3.05 m) | |
| All values from NFL Combine/Pro Day[7][8] | ||||||||||||
Booker was selected by the Chicago Bears in the fifth round with the 144th overall pick of the 2024 NFL draft.[9] He signed a four-year contract with the team on May 16.[10]
Booker began the 2025 season on injured reserve due to a knee injury suffered in the preseason. He was activated on October 28, 2025, ahead of the team's Week 9 matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals.[11] During the 2025 season, Booker was fined 4 separate fines from the NFL for unnecessary roughness. 3 of them were in games against the Green Bay Packers, and one of those caused the Green Bay Packers quarterback, Jordan Love, to receive a concussion that caused him to miss two games.[12][13][14]