Alexander Frederick Elkins

 Alexander Frederick Elkins

Alexander Frederick Elkins

Alex Elkins is a promising rugby player who has spent the majority of his career as a multi-sport athlete. Elkins continued to improve his football abilities while at Keller High School, where he played basketball, baseball, wrestling, and rugby. He earned a spot with the nationally regarded Blinn Junior College in Texas.

Elkins played linebacker for the NFL's Detroit Lions in 2013, before dedicating his focus to rugby full-time later that year. As a promising sevens player, the emerging star competed for the Men's Falcons in the 2015 USA Halloween 7s and even attended many sessions with the Men's Sevens in 2016.


He rejoined the Falcons for the Sudamerica Rugby Sevens competition in early 2017.


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