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Feb 28
We talk about defenders getting their upper body out of sync with their lower body in transition,
Yeah Indiana CB D’Angelo Ponds didn’t get that memo
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“Strongest hands I’ve ever scouted (Miami WR Reggie Wayne)”
💍Super Bowl; Colts Ring of Honor
🔹1st Team All-Pro (‘10); 2× 2nd Team
🔹1070 rec/14,000 yards/82 TD
🔹6× Pro Bowl (2006–2010, 2012)
🔹NFL receiving yards leader (2007)
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UNC TE Alge Crumpler joined the family business making it to the NFL in the 2001 NFL Draft (Falcons)
♦️4× Pro Bowl (03–06); 10 seasons
♦️373 rec, 4743 yards, 39 TD
🐏2× 1st Team All-ACC; 1x 2nd Team
🧬 Dad a Bills RB; bro a Seahawks TE
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1st Round RB Deuce McAlister took over for Ricky Williams in New Orleans
💍Super Bowl; 2× Pro Bowl; 8 seasons
⚜️7800 All-Purpose Yards; 50 TD
♦️2× 1st Team All-SEC; 1x 2nd Team
♦️Only Ole Miss player w/three 1,000 all-purpose seasons
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Oregon State WR Chad Johnson is a legendary player & character
🐅3× First-team All-Pro; 6× Pro Bowl
🐅750 rec/11,000 yards, 67 TD
🐅NFL receiving leader (2006)
🐅Bengals 50th Anniversary Team
🐅Santa Monica teammate Steve Smith
🐅Lived at stadium first 2 years
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Cal OT Tarik Glenn was a BIG man. 354 lbs at the 1997 NFL Draft Combine
💍Super Bowl; 3× Pro Bowl; 10 seasons
🔹Colts Ring of Honor; DT until Jr. year
🐻1st & 2nd Team All-Pac-10
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Jun 14
Auburn LB Takeo Spikes was MEAN
🐅2× Pro Bowl; Captain 13/15 years
🐅1431 tkls (17th), 29 sks, 16 FF, 19 INT
🐅Bengals 40th Anniversary Team
🐅2x All-American; 2x All-SEC; All-Pro
🐅1 of 7 LBs to start 200 NFL games
Draft pick after Keith Brooking (14th tkls)
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Jun 13
Florida RB Fred Taylor went on to Jacksonville Jaguars Mount Rushmore
🐆14,000 All-Purpose Yards; 74 TD
🐆2nd Team All-Pro (2007)
🐆Pride of the Jaguars (1 of 7 inducted)
💍National Champion (1996)
🐊3rd Team All-American; All-SEC
🐊UF Hall of Fame; 4.29 at Combine
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Jun 13
UNC ED Greg Ellis was a Cowboys 1st Round pick before Cowboys DL Coach
🔹531 tkls, 84 sacks, 22 FF; 12 seasons
🔹NFL CPOY & Pro Bowl (2007)
🔹Former Texas College & SAGU HC
🐏All-American; 3× All ACC; 32.5 sacks
🐏North Carolina #87 honored
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Jun 13
VA Tech DB Jimmy Williams “fell” to the Falcons Pick 37 in the 2006 NFL Draft
🦃Unanimous All-American; 2× All ACC
🦃6-2 3/8, 213 & 4.44 speed
♦️7 career NFL starts; 48 tkls, 1 INT
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Jun 12
Clemson ED Trevor Pryce went from NFL Draft “project” to All-Pro
💍2× Super Bowl; 4× Pro Bowl
🔸1st Team All-Pro; 2nd Team; All-ACC
🔸448 tkls, 91 sacks, 12 FF; 14 seasons
🔸Broncos 50th Anniversary Team
🔸TV writer “Kulipari: An Army of Frogs”
🔸Sister played for USWNT
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Jun 12
Miami DT Cortez Kennedy was so badass he won NFL DPOY on a 2-14 Seahawks team
🔹3× 1st Team All-Pro; 2× 2nd Team
🔹8× Pro Bowl; 1990s All-Decade
🔹Seahawks Top 50; #96 retired
🔹2× National Champion (JUCO & UM)
🔹668 tkls, 58 sacks, 3 INT; 11 seasons
Jun 7
Cortez Kennedy was an absolute monster. Rare power, quickness, and a nonstop motor.
In 1992 he did the near-impossible: Defensive Player of the Year on a 2-14 Seahawks team.
8× Pro Bowler • 3× First-Team All-Pro • Hall of Famer.
Follow @NFLHuddleUp to resurrect legends like him.
#NFL 🏈 #History #Football #Seahawks #Seattle
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