Ronnie Yell
{{Short description|American gridiron football player (born 1991)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox gridiron football person
| name = Ronnie Yell
| image = File:Ronnie Yell at 2012 Military Bowl.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Yell at the 2012 Military Bowl
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|4|15}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| team =
| number = 25
| import = Yes
| position1 = Defensive back
| height_ft = 5
| height_in = 10
| weight_lb = 185
| college = San Jose State
| high_school = Lincoln (San Diego, California)
| playing_years1 = {{NFL Year|2013}}*
| playing_team1 = Arizona Cardinals
| playing_years2 = {{CFL Year|2013}}–{{CFL Year|2017}}
| playing_team2 = BC Lions
| playing_years3 = {{CFL Year|2018}}
| playing_team3 = Toronto Argonauts
| career_highlights = *Military Bowl champion (2012)
| statlabel1 = Tackles
| statvalue1 = 168
| statlabel2 = Interceptions
| statvalue2 = 7
| CFL = ronnie-yell/160046/
}}
Ronald Irving Yell (born April 15, 1991){{cite web|url=http://new.berecruited.com/athletes/212132|title=Ronald Irving Yell – Football|publisher=BeRecruited|access-date=August 4, 2014}} is an American former professional football defensive back. He played college football at San Jose State and began his professional football career in 2013 with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He then joined the BC Lions late in the 2013 season. Yell was also a member of the Toronto Argonauts.
Early life
Yell was born in Los Angeles, California. His grandfather Bobo Henderson was a Negro league baseball player.{{cite web|title=Ronnie Yell |url=http://www.sjsuspartans.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5600&ATCLID=204765582 |publisher=San Jose State Spartans |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926143820/http://www.sjsuspartans.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5600&ATCLID=204765582 |archive-date=September 26, 2012 |access-date=August 4, 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.nlbpa.com/the-athletes/henderson-neale---bobo|title=Neale 'Bobo' Henderson|publisher=NLBPA|access-date=August 4, 2014}} After transferring from Crawford High, Yell graduated from Lincoln High School in San Diego in 2009. At Lincoln, Yell was a quarterback on the football team; he played on the basketball and track and field teams as well.{{cite web|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070908/news_1s8p-brand.html|title= Hornets still sting|author=Brand, Steve|work=San Diego Union-Tribune|date=September 8, 2007|access-date=August 4, 2014}} Yell also was the activities commissioner for two years on the Lincoln High student body.
{{College athlete recruit start|year=2012|40=no}}
{{College athlete recruit entry
| recruit = Ronnie Yell
| position = DB
| hometown = San Diego, CA
| highschool = Lincoln HS
| feet = 5
| inches = 9
| weight = 165
| commitdate = February 4, 2009
| scout stars = 2
| rivals stars = 2
}}
{{College athlete recruit end
| 40 = no
| year = 2009
| rivals ref title = 2009 San Jose St. Football Commitment List
| scout ref title = 2009 San Jose State College Football Team Recruiting Prospects
| rivals school = sanjosestate
| scout s = 199
| scout overall = 284 (CB); 92 (school)
| rivals overall = 88 (school)
| accessdate = August 6, 2014
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College career
file:Ronnie Yell before 2012 Colorado State game.JPG.]]
Yell attended San Jose State University and played for the Spartans football team as a defensive back, in 2009 under coach Dick Tomey and from 2010 to 2012 under Mike MacIntyre. As a freshman, Yell played 10 games and started at cornerback in the last six games of 2009 and had 19 tackles and a pass deflected.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ronnie-yell-1.html|title=Ronnie Yell Stats | College Football at Sports-Reference.com|publisher=sports-reference.com|access-date=August 5, 2014}} Yell also became the punt return specialist late in 2009. San Jose State finished the 2009 season 2–10.
In 2010, his sophomore year, Yell played all 13 games and started 10. He had 44 tackles (3 for loss), 11 passes deflected, and one interception. He returned one punt for six yards and 32 kickoffs for 645 yards (an average 20.2 yards per return). In Mike MacIntyre's first year as head coach, San Jose State went 1–12 this season.
For his junior year in 2011, Yell played the final 10 games of the year and started 6. Yell had 37 tackles (1.5 for loss), an interception, 5 tackles, a pass deflected, and 3 punt returns for 42 yards (14 yards per carry). In San Jose State's 38–31 win over Colorado State on October 1, Yell intercepted a Colorado State pass in Colorado State's final possession to seal San Jose State's first road win in 13 games.{{cite web|author=Howell, Brian|title=San Jose State snaps 13-game road losing streak|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/sjsu-spartans/ci_19021537|work=San Jose Mercury News|date=October 2, 2011|access-date=August 4, 2014}} San Jose State improved to 5–7 in 2011.
As a senior in 2012, Yell played all 13 games and had 41 tackles, 9 passes deflected, and 15 punt returns for 42 yards (2.8 yards average). San Jose State finished the season 11–2, including a victory over Bowling Green in the 2012 Military Bowl in Washington, D. C. Yell broke up 3 passes in that game.{{cite web|url=http://www.sjsuspartans.com/sports/m-footbl/stats/2012-2013/bowlgame.html|title=San Jose State Spartans Official Athletic Site|publisher=sjsuspartans.com|access-date=August 5, 2014}} Yell graduated from San Jose State in 2013 with a B.A. in sociology.{{cite web|url=http://www.sjsuspartans.com/genrel/052513aaa.html|title= Spartans Celebrate 2013 Commencement |publisher=San Jose State Athletics|access-date=August 4, 2014|date=May 25, 2013}}
Professional career
{{NFL predraft
| height ft = 5
| height in = 9
| weight = 189
| dash = 4.65
| ten split = 1.63
| twenty split = 2.70
| shuttle = 4.51
| cone drill = 7.37
| vertical = 33+1/2
| broad ft = 10
| broad in = 1
| bench = 14
| wonderlic =
| arm span =
| hand span =
| note = All values from Pro Day at San Jose State.{{cite web|url=http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=114345&draftyear=2013&genpos=CB|title=Ronnie Yell|work=NFL Draft Scout|access-date=August 6, 2014}}
}}
=Arizona Cardinals=
Following the 2013 NFL draft, Yell signed with the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent on April 29, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.azcentral.com/sports/cardinals/articles/20130429arizona-cardinals-rookie-free-agents-dan-buckner-jaron-brown.html|title=Arizona Cardinals add 16 rookie free agents to roster|work=AZCentral|date=April 29, 2013|access-date=August 4, 2014}} Yell played in two preseason games and had one tackle.{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/player/ronnieyell/2542048/gamelogs|title=Ronnie Yell: Game Logs at NFL.com|work=nfl.com|access-date=August 5, 2014}} The Cardinals cut Yell on August 25.{{cite web|url=http://www.azcentral.com/sports/cardinals/articles/20130825arizona-cardinals-cut-newly-signed-kicker-dan-carpenter-others.html|title=Arizona Cardinals cut newly signed kicker Dan Carpenter, 9 others|author=Somers, Dan|work=AZCentral.com|date=August 25, 2013|access-date=August 4, 2014}}
=BC Lions=
On October 7, 2013, during the team's practice roster expansion period, the CFL team BC Lions signed Yell, who would remain on the practice roster through the end of the season.{{cite web|url=http://www.bclions.com/roster/show/id/6541 |title=Ronnie Yell |publisher=BC Lions |access-date=August 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810001739/http://www.bclions.com/roster/show/id/6541 |archive-date=August 10, 2014 }}
In his preseason debut with the Lions on June 14 against the Edmonton Eskimos, Yell forced a fumble recovered by teammate Alex Hoffman-Ellis, and this play set up BC's winning field goal in a 14–11 win.{{cite web|last1=Ullrich|first1=Lowell|title=BC Lions 14 Eskimos 11: Lots of questions still to be answered by Leos hopefuls|url=https://theprovince.com/sports/Lions+Eskimos+Lots+questions+still+answered+Leos+hopefuls/9937982/story.html|website=The Province|place=Vancouver, B.C.|publisher=Postmedia Network Inc. |access-date=August 4, 2014|date=June 15, 2014}} Yell also had two tackles and an interception.{{cite web|url=http://www.bclions.com/statistics/statsGame/id/11805|title=B.C. Lions|publisher=bclions.com|access-date=August 5, 2014}}
On August 1, Yell made his first regular season CFL interception in BC's 25–24 win over the previously undefeated Calgary Stampeders and returned it 34 yards for BC's first score of the game.{{cite web|url=https://vancouversun.com/sports/Stampeders+lose+their+first+game+season+Lions/10084622/story.html|title=Stampeders lose their first game of the season 25–24 to the B.C. Lions|work=Vancouver Sun|date=August 2, 2014|access-date=August 4, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bclions.com/video/index/id/99975|title=Ronnie Yell Pick Six|publisher=CFL|access-date=August 4, 2014|date=August 1, 2014}} With 51 seconds left and BC leading, Yell forced a Calgary fumble, and BC ran out the clock to 4 seconds remaining. BC won after Calgary's final play was an incomplete pass.7:20 mark of video, {{cite web|url=http://cfl.ca/video/index/id/99993|title=Recap: BC 25, Calgary 24|publisher=CFL|date=August 2, 2014|access-date=August 4, 2014}}
=Toronto Argonauts=
Yell became a free agent in 2018 and subsequently signed with the Toronto Argonauts on February 17, 2018, then Yell was released in 2019. [https://www.argonauts.ca/2018/02/17/argos-ink-international-db-ronnie-yell/ Argos add veteran DB Ronnie Yell to secondary]
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Ronnie Yell}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140810001739/http://www.bclions.com/roster/show/id/6541 BC Lions profile]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120926143820/http://www.sjsuspartans.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5600&ATCLID=204765582 San Jose State profile (archived from 2012)]
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Category:American football defensive backs
Category:Canadian football defensive backs
Category:Arizona Cardinals players
Category:Sportspeople from Surrey, British Columbia
Category:Players of American football from Los Angeles
Category:San Jose State Spartans football players
Category:Players of American football from San Diego
Category:Players of Canadian football from San Diego