Trey Pipkins: 4 things to know on the Los Angles Chargers 2019 NFL Draft pick
Erik Hall
Here are the basics on former University of Sioux Falls offensive tackle Trey Pipkins.
Height: 6 foot 6
Weight: 309 pounds
Here are some other things you may not know about Pipkins as he enters the 2019 NFL Draft.
Pipkins played high school basketball with the Minnesota Timberwolves' Tyus Jones
Tyus Jones and Trey Pipkins both grew up in Apple Valley, Minnesota, and graduated from Apple Valley High School in 2014. The team won a state championship in 2013.
“It was awesome,” Pipkins told Vikings.com of Jones. “He’s a crazy basketball player and is pretty much the reason I got all my points … he attracted so much attention that I was just standing by the hoop alone.”
Jones went to play basketball at Duke in 2014-15 before embarking on an NBA career. Jones has started 34 games and played 247 games in his four-year Timberwolves career.
Pipkins redshirted his first year at Sioux Falls before starting 43 games over his final four seasons.
Trey Pipkins is the first USF player to participate in the NFL Combine
The NFL Combine has existed since 1982, and it took until 2019 for a player from University of Sioux Falls, a private Christian university, to receive an invitation.
Pipkins did well representing USF.
He ran 40 yards in 5.12 seconds, completed 16 bench press reps of 225 pounds, jumped 33.5 inches in the vertical jump and leaped 114 inches in the broad jump.
Of the 338 players invited, Pipkins was one of five from NCAA Division II.
Pipkins helped Sioux Falls reach the playoffs three times
The Sioux Falls Cougars football team reached the NCAA Division II playoffs three times during Trey Pipkins' career.
The Cougars advanced to the playoffs in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Sioux Falls went 1-3 in those three trips.
Midwestern State eliminated Sioux Falls 24-20 in 2017. During Pipkins' redshirt sophomore year, Sioux Falls defeated Azusa Pacific 34-21 before a 27-24 overtime loss to Harding. In 2015 with Pipkins a redshirt freshman, Henderson State knocked out Sioux Falls 23-16 in the first round.
As a senior, Sioux Falls did not make the playoffs, but Pipkins earned first-team All-American honors from D2Football.com and The Associated Press.
Sioux Falls has seen 1 player picked in NFL Draft history
Since 1960, The Football Database lists only one player from University of Sioux Falls being selected in the NFL Draft.
In 1984, the New Orleans Saints selected punter Brian Hansen in the ninth round with the 237th pick.
Hansen enjoyed a 15-year NFL career with the Saints, New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, New York Jets, and Washington. He made the Pro Bowl as a rookie in 1984.
