CARDS: Upper Deck MVP 2002, Topps Total 2005, Topps 2005 Draft Picks, Topps 2006
ACQUIRED: TTM 2024, C/o Home
SENT: 10/21 RECEIVED: 10/30 (9 days)

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• Nick Goings played college ball at both Ohio State (1996-’97) and Pitt (1999-’00).
• A seldom used RB for the Buckeyes, Goings saw his best season as a Junior at Pitt, rushing for 469 yards and catching 14 passes.
• He’d sign with the Carolina Panthers after the 2001 NFL Draft.
• As the only UDFA to make the squad, he bode his time initially as a special teams player and occasional 3rd down back.
• The Panthers OL at this time were a bunch of road maulers, and with injuries plaguing the RB corps in 2004- Nick stepped up.
• Starting the last 7 contests of the year, he pounded out 821 yards on 217 carries, scoring 6 TDs, and catching 45 passes.
• Although oft-seldom used the remainder of his career, Nick suffered a series of at least 4 concussions.
• He’d retire after the 2008 campaign.

NOTES:

Nick Goings is partially responsible for one of the most improbable fantasy football championship runs I ever had.

The 2004 season, I was invited by my workplace mates to play fantasy football. I was having a rough season, but I scoured the waiver wire early and signed Nick to replace Chris Brown. He paid off and the rest was history.

At the end of the season I gutted my poor performing roster, after I backed into the playoffs. My league had their playoffs unusually late- so I gambled the best team in the league would have a bunch of stars who’d be sat, and I could gun for the players who’d be playing for next season’s pole positioning. It worked out insanely well for me. I upset the #1 seed and then dethroned the second seed in the championship to secure the win- thanks hugely in part to the contributions of Nick Goings.

I had been interested in writing him for sometime- since there was a duo card of him and Brad Hoover. Nobody had any luck with Nick in the last few years so I threw this up there and hoped for the best. I was not disappointed. He wrote me a very nice note and congratulated me on my victory.

RUSH	YDS	AVG	TD	LG
400	1470	3.7	6	57t

REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LG
110	880	8.0	3	37