Chad Owens

Chad Owens (born April 3, 1982) is a professional American, Canadian and Arena football wide receiver and kick returner for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Hawaii.

Owens has also been a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Colorado Crush.

Early years
Chad Owens attended Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, and he was a three sport letterwinner and star in football, basketball, and track. In football, as a senior, he was an All-OIA white division selection, and an All-State honorable mention. As a sophomore, he garnered first team All-OIA Red Division honors, and All-State honorable-mention accolades. He was also a basketball star and as a senior, he led his team to the OIA state basketball championship. He is currently married to Rena Owens, with whom he has three children - Chad Jr., Areana, and Sierra-Lynn.

College career
Owens became a bigger star after joining the University of Hawaii football team as a wide receiver, punt returner and kick returner. He became the featured receiver in June Jones's Run & Shoot offense, and became the number one receiver for quarterback Timmy Chang. Owens was instrumental on the Warriors teams that won both the Hawaii Bowl in 2003 and 2004 by beating the University of Houston and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.


 * Hawaii's all-time career yardage leader with 5,461 all-purpose yards
 * Gained 3,031 receiving yards (12.7 avg.) and 29 touchdowns in 44 games
 * Awarded the Mosi Tatupu Award for best Special Teams Player in 2004

Professional career
Owens was cut by the Jacksonville Jaguars after his NFL debut against the Indianapolis Colts where he muffed 3 punts. He was re-signed to the Jaguars' practice squad a few days later.

Playing with the Jaguars in his first pre-season game of the 2006 season, Owens caught a 62 yard pass and made his first NFL touchdown.

Owens was signed to the Jaguars' practice squad Nov 8, 2007 and moved to the active roster Dec 28, 2007. He played in the regular-season finale at Houston, but misplayed a punt in the 42-28 loss. Owens was again waived by the Jaguars as of January 11, 2008.

Owens played for the Colorado Crush of the Arena Football League.

On July 14, 2009, Owens signed a practice roster agreement with the Montreal Alouettes. He was released on October 1. He was re-signed to the practice roster on October 8.

On June 24, 2010, the Toronto Argonauts acquired Owens from the Alouettes in exchange for a fourth round pick in the 2011 CFL Draft.

On November 25, 2010, Owens was named the most outstanding special teams player in the Canadian Football League for the 2010 season. Owens was a unanimous selection after leading the CFL in punt, kickoff, missed field goal returns and all-purpose yards and finishing tied for the league lead in return touchdowns (four). He became just the fifth player in league history to have over 1,000 punt and kick return yards in a season. In his second full season in Toronto Chad became the first player in professional football to record at least 3,000 combined yards in back to back seasons.

On November 1, 2012, in the final regular season game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Owens set the all time record for all-purpose yards in a single season, surpassing Pinball Clemons' 1997 total of 3,840 yards. Owens did so with a 29 yard kickoff return halfway through the 2nd quarter. He finished the season with 3863 all-purpose yards, setting not only a CFL record, but also a professional football record as well.

On November 22, 2012, Chad won the CFL Most Outstanding Player Award finishing ahead of Calgary Stampeders running back Jon Cornish in voting conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada as well as the eight CFL head coaches. On November 25, 2012, Chad and his Argonauts finished the 2012 season with the 100th Grey Cup Championship.