Aundrae Allison

Games and Starts

Professional Biography

Joins 2nd-rounder Sidney Rice and 7th-rounder Chandler Williams as WRs drafted by the Vikings in 2007...Became the 1st WR drafted from ECU since 1998 and the 3rd-highest drafted WR in school history.

NFL History

• Burst onto the Vikings return scene despite not working as a return man in college.
• Led the NFC and ranked 3^rd in the NFL with a kickoff return average of 28.7 yards per return.
• Highest-ranked rookie in the NFL with a 28.7 average.
• Set a Vikings record with 3 kickoff returns of 60+ yards, breaking the old mark of 2.
• Had the longest play in Vikings history with a 104-yard KO return TD vs. Detroit (12/2) and caught a season-high 2 passes for 52 yards and a career-long 35-yarder.
• His 28.7 season-long kickoff return average is the best in Vikings history.
• Set Vikings record with a 47.7 kickoff return average vs. Detroit (12/2), breaking the old mark of 44.0 held by Jimmy Edwards at Tampa Bay (11/25/79).
• Notched 1^st career rushing attempt vs. Chicago (12/17) on Monday Night Football. Also caught 2 passes for 23 yards and returned 4 kickoffs in the game.
• Inactive vs. Philadelphia (10/28), vs. Oakland (11/18), @ NY Giants (11/25).
• Played @ Dallas (10/21) after being inactive for 2 games.
• Inactive vs. Green Bay (9/30) and @ Chicago (10/14).  
• Returned season-high 3 kickoffs @ Kansas City (9/23) and recorded 9 yards receiving by taking a lateral on the final play of the game.
• Took back a Lions kickoff 60 yards @ Detroit (9/16).
• Played 2 seasons at East Carolina after spending 2 seasons at Georgia Military College.
• Did not start playing football until his junior year of high school.
• Aspires to a career as a script writer following football.

College Information

Part of the turnaround at ECU under Skip Holtz in his 2 seasons...The Pirates 7-6 mark in 2006 were the most wins since the 8-4 club in 2000...Burst onto the scene in 2005 at ECU after 2 seasons at Georgia Military College...Was a 1st-Team All-Conference USA honoree in
2005 and a 2nd-Team selection in 2006...Had 7 career games with 100+ yards receiving...Started ECU career with 3 straight 100-yard games and had career-best 163 yards on 10 catches against Duke in his 1st game as a Pirate...Ended ECU career ranked 2nd in receptions with 145 and 3rd in career yards with 1,732 in only 2 seasons with the Pirates...Ranks 2nd and 3rd in ECU single-season receptions with 83 in 2005 and 62 in 2006...Holds ECU single-season yardage record with 1,024, the only Pirate to break the 1,000-yard plateau...Completed a pair of passes for 75 yards in his career, including a 34-yard TD in 2006...Caught a pass in 21 of his 22 career games, being shut out in only the UAB game in 2006.

2006 Named 2nd-Team All-Conference USA by media and coaches...Helped team advance to Papajohns.com Bowl, the 1st bowl game for the Pirates since 2001...Started all 11 games he played on the season, missing a pair of contests with ankle sprain...Caught career-high 13 passes against SMU, setting a Conference USA record and falling 1 catch shy of the ECU record...His performance against SMU came after missing a pair of games with ankle injury...Threw a 34-yard TD pass to Steven Rogers against Marshall, his 2nd career pass completion.

2005 Earned All-Conference USA 1st-Team honors in his Division I debut...Set ECU record with 1,024 receiving yards and posted the 2nd-most receptions in team history with 83...Set school record with 5 games of 100+ receving yards...Established ECU mark with 3 straight games with 100+ yards, the opening 3 games of his career...Had career-best 163 yards in 1st game as a Pirate vs. Duke in the 2005 season opener...Led conference and ranked 4th in the country with an average of 7.55 receptions per game...Connected on 1st career pass completion on a 41-yarder to Bobby Good vs. Tulsa.

2004 Named to NJCAA All-America team and recognized as team MVP at Georgia Military College...Caught 37 passes for 455 yards and 5 TDs.

2003 Helped lead Georgia Military College to an 8-2 record and a berth in the Golden Isles Bowl in his college football debut...Attended Coffeyville (KS) Community College in the fall of 2002 but did not compete in football.

Personal Biography

Majored in communications at ECU...Earned associate’s degree from Georgia Military...Aspires to a career as a writer with an interest in movie scripts...The youngest of 5 kids in his family...Participated in youth reading program at ECU.

Played for Skip Holtz at East Carolina, the son of former Minnesota Golden Gophers coach Lou Holtz.

Transferred from Georgia Military College to ECU for his final 2 seasons of college football.

Ranks 2nd in ECU career receptions and 3rd in career yards despite playing only 2 seasons at the school.