Raheem Blackshear (born June 5, 1998) is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...

running back A running back (RB) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback to rush the ball, to line up as a receiver to catch the ball, and block. The ...

for the

Carolina Panthers The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. ...

of the

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(NFL). He played college football at

Rutgers Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and w ...

and

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...

Professional career

Buffalo Bills

Blackshear signed with the

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as an undrafted free agent on May 13, 2022. He was waived by on August 30, 2022, and signed to the practice squad the next day.

Carolina Panthers

On September 21, 2022, Blackshear was signed by the

off the Bills practice squad.

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Rutgers Scarlet Knights bioVirginia Tech Hokies bioBuffalo Bills bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackshear, Raheem 1998 births Living people American football running backs Virginia Tech Hokies football players Buffalo Bills players Carolina Panthers players Rutgers Scarlet Knights football players