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34 Dominique Barber - Biography
HEIGHT: 6-0
WEIGHT: 214
COLLEGE: Minnesota
NFL EXP: 2nd season
| Career Statistics | ||||||||||||
| Year | Team | G | GS | tckls | solo | ast | sacks | int | yds | avg | lg | td |
| 2008 | HOU | 12 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | HOU | 8 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 20 | 0 | 22 | 14 | 3 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
CAREER: Young safety looking to transition from special teams standout to full-time safety...finished his rookie year with five tackles and his first career sack in the season finale against Chicago…finished third on the team with 10 special teams tackles.
2008 (Houston 12/0): Played in 12 games…posted five total tackles with one sack…was a key contributor on special teams all season, where he was third on the team with 10 tackles…inactive at Pittsburgh (9/7)…played on special teams and had one assist at Tennessee (9/21)…saw his first action on defense at safety when C.C. Brown broke his arm late in the game at Jacksonville (9/28) and recorded the first tackle of his career…contributed on special teams vs. Indianapolis (10/5)…inactive due to a hamstring injury vs. Miami (10/12), vs. Detroit (10/19), vs. Cincinnati (10/26)…returned to action in his hometown at Minnesota (11/2) and recorded one assist on special teams…registered two tackles on special teams vs. Baltimore (11/9)…played at free safety and posted one assist and made one special teams tackle at Indianapolis (11/16)…played on special teams at Cleveland (11/23)…played at safety and on special teams vs. Jacksonville (12/1)…played at safety and recorded two special teams tackles at Green Bay (12/7)…played on special teams vs. Tennessee (12/14)… made two solo tackles while playing at safety and also made three tackles on special teams at Oakland (12/21)…played at free safety and on special teams vs. Chicago (12/28) and recorded one sack, tackling Bears QB Kyle Orton for a nine-yard loss in the third quarter.
Appeared in 26 games as a Golden Gopher with 24 starts…totaled 191 tackles, including 130 solo stops during his career…collected 174 of his 191 career stops during the 2006 and 2007 seasons for an average of 87 total tackles per season as a junior and senior…finished with four career interceptions and 13 pass break-ups…also had four fumble recoveries (returning one for a touchdown) and three force fumbles…lettered all four seasons at Minnesota.
Selected by the Houston Texans in the sixth round (173rd overall) of the 2008 NFL Draft...signed by Texans on June 19, 2008.
A 2004 graduate of Wayzata High School (Minn.)…named all-state and all-county his senior season at defensive back and was an all-conference and all-area selection his senior season at running back…tallied one interception, which he returned for a touchdown in 2003…rushed for 911 yards on 138 carries with nine scores last season, while also recording 25 catches for 288 yards with three touchdowns…also lettered twice in hockey and once in baseball…majoring in communication studies…son of Marion and Karen Barber…father, Marion Jr., is a former NFL and All-Big Ten running back for the Gophers and brother, Marion III, plays for the Dallas Cowboys.
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