Derrius Guice
Derrius Guice was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States on June 21st, 1997 and is the Football Player. At the age of 26, Derrius Guice biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Derrius Guice (pronounced ) (born June 21, 1997) is an American football running back for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL).
He played college football at LSU, and was drafted by the Redskins in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
He is the only player in Southeastern Conference (SEC) history with three career games of 250 or more rushing yards.
Early years
Guice was born to parents Derek and Beulah Guice on June 21, 1997, in a poverty-stricken section of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, known as "the Bottom". On May 3, 2003, Derek was killed after being involved in a fight at a Denny's restaurant, with Guice learning of it after seeing the scene on the news. As a way to deal with his emotions and not feeling safe at home, Guice focused his life around football, with his powerful running style being described as "running angry".
Guice first attended McKinley High School. Due to his mother not liking the culture of McKinley, which she also attended, as well as his talents on the football field, Guice, along with three close friends and fellow football teammates, were given a scholarship to attend the predominantly white and affluent private school Catholic High. Guice would come home crying, Guice begged his mother to allow him to transfer back to McKinley. However, his mother said there was no way he was going to leave the scholarship behind, asking him about how many kids in their neighborhood had the same opportunity he did.
As a junior, Guice met Stephanie de la Houssaye, a white guidance counselor at the school. De la Houssaye gravitated toward the three boys, and Guice specifically, because of their struggles at the school and her ability to relate to them, as she had also grown up in poverty. Guice first befriended de la Houssaye after she had taken him home following a gang-related altercation at his house that left Guice unconscious. Over the course of his junior year, Guice began spending more time at the de la Houssaye household, eating dinner with her and her husband and children and going on vacations with them, eventually moving in with them. Catholic administrators had an issue with the close relationship, telling her to limit her guidance to school hours or she would lose her job. De la Houssaye chose to continue personally helping Guice over the job, with her stating that she never regretted the decision. Guice, when speaking about the situation while in college, claimed that the situation reminded him of the 2009 film The Blind Side, in which another black football player is taken in by a white family due to troublesome circumstances at home.
As a senior, he rushed for 1,341 yards with 21 touchdowns. Catholic went 9–2 on the season and lost 25–23 to New Orleans Brother Martin in the LHSAA Division I quarterfinals at BREC Memorial Stadium, after Guice was stopped on a two-point conversion that would have tied the game. After his senior season, Guice played in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl and was awarded the Pete Dawkins Trophy. Guice was rated by Rivals.com as a five-star recruit and was ranked as the second best high school running back at the time, behind Damien Harris. He committed to Louisiana State University (LSU) to play college football, fulfilling a promise he made to his father before his death.
Personal life
Guice was the first athlete to sign with Top Dawg Entertainment's sports division agency, a record label better known for representing musical artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q. Guice is a fan of and often livestreamed video games such as the Madden NFL series and Fortnite Battle Royale during his time with Washington.
Following a visit to the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center in June 2018, Guice set up a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign for cancer research and raised over US$21,000 within a week.
In November 2016, Guice's brother Derrick was arrested and charged with attempted second degree murder following an incident where he was the driver of two gunmen who shot at a man on his porch in Baton Rouge.
On August 7, 2020, Guice was arrested and charged with counts of strangulation, assault, battery, and destruction of property that stemmed from three separate domestic violence incidents that had taken place at his home in Loudoun County, Virginia earlier that year. The felony charge of strangulation was dropped in January 2021, and the four remaining misdemeanor charges were dropped in June 2021 following an undisclosed settlement between Guice and his former girlfriend. The arrest led to him being released by Washington. Later in August 2020, Guice was accused by two women of sexual assault that occurred during two separate instances while he was a freshman at LSU in 2016.
Soon after the rape accusations were made public, another former LSU student announced that she had filed a police report against Guice in 2016 for taking a partially nude photograph of her without her knowledge and sharing it with some of his football teammates, a felony under Louisiana law. Although the incident was reported to both LSU police and LSU's athletic department, Guice was not given any disciplinary action by the university. In March 2021, a 74-year-old woman accused Guice of sexual harassment from an incident at the Superdome in 2017. The following month, LSU announced it had disassociated itself from Guice, banning him from the athletics program indefinitely. It also removed all of Guice's statistics from its record books.
College career
In 2015, Guice was a back-up to Leonard Fournette in LSU's true freshman year. He appeared in all 12 games, passing for 436 yards on 51 attempts with three touchdowns. Guice made his sophomore season as a back-up to Fournette. On the team's second game of the season, he played for 155 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries in his first career appearance in place of an injured Fournette. Guice rushed for 252 yards against the Arkansas Razorbacks on November 12, the second most in a game in school history. In the fourth quarter, the total number included a school-record 96-yard touchdown run. He set the school single-game record by 285 yards against Texas A&M, defeating the previous record set by one yard earlier in the season.
Following Bo Jackson, Herschel Walker, and Moe Williams, he was the fourth running back in Southeastern Conference history to record multiple 250-yard rush performances in a career. Following the regular season, he was promoted to the Associated Press first-team All-SEC squad. Guice saw little action in the first two games of his junior season due to a left leg injury. He rushed for 276 yards in a game against Ole Miss that season, becoming the first SEC player to play in three seasons with at least 250 rushing yards.
Professional career
Guice revealed in January 2018 that he would forego his senior year at LSU in favour of the 2018 NFL Draft. Guice attended LSU's pro day in April 2018, but decided to stay on his team's number rather than doing positional drills. Guice was predicted to be a first or second round pick by NFL draft analysts and scouts at the conclusion of the pre-draft process. He was ranked as one of the best running backs of the 2018 class.
Guice is expected to have his draft stock drop as a first round pick before the draft, as shown by reports regarding his name and other events during the drafting process, such as a suspected verbal altercation between himself and Howie Roseman, executive of the Philadelphia Eagles. It was denied by Roseman and other Eagles personnel, with Guice stating that the incident, as well as other stories about him being lazy, immature, and dishonest, was not true. Guice said during an interview with a team, if he liked men and if his mother "sells herself." The NFL investigated the allegations but discovered no evidence that it had occurred. By the Washington Redskins, Guice was drafted in the second round, 59th overall. Guice also agreed to a four-year, US$4.54 million deal on May 10, 2018. Guice sustained a torn ACL in his first preseason game of his rookie season, ending his season.
In the 2019 season's opener against the Philadelphia Eagles, Guice made his regular season debut. Guice rushed for 18 yards and caught three touchdowns for 20 yards, but the game was interrupted due to his right knee injury. The Redskins would finish the game 32-27. Guice had suffered a torn meniscus, necessing surgery, and he was put on injured reserve on September 13, 2019. On October 28, 2019, he was called back from injured reserve and started training with the team again. On November 7, he was recalled from the injured reserve. Guice rushed seven times for 24 yards against the New York Jets in Week 11 and caught one pass for a 45-yard touchdown. Guice rushed ten times for 129 yards and two touchdowns in Week 13 against the Carolina Panthers, defeating the 29–21 victory. He sustained an MCL sprain this week and was put on injured reserve on December 10, 2019. Following allegations of domestic abuse, the team's privileges were withdrawn by the team on August 7, 2020. Guice was suspended for six games by the NFL at the start of the 2021 season for violating the league's personal conduct policy after the charges were dropped in 2021.