Kwame Cavil

Kwame Cavil

Date of birth:	May 3, 1979 (1979-05-03)
Place of birth:	Waco, Texas
Career information
Status:	Retired
CFL status:	Import
Position(s):	WR
Height:	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:	205 lb (93 kg)
College:	Texas
Organizations
As player:
2000 2002-2005 2005 2006 2006	Buffalo Bills Montreal Alouettes Edmonton Eskimos Hamilton Tiger-Cats Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Career highlights and awards
Grey Cup champion (2005)
CFL East All-Star:	2004
Career stats
Receptions	193
Receiving Yards	2,328 yards (Avg: 12.1 yards)
Receiving TDs	12
Longest Reception	72 yards
Fumbles	5 *CFL statistics only
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Kwame Cavil (born May 3, 1979 in Waco, Texas) is a Canadian Football League wide receiver that is an unrestricted free agent in the CFL.

College career

Cavil played college football for the University of Texas Longhorns from 1997 to 1999. In 1999, he set a school single-season record by recording 100 receptions. He was the first player ever to leave one of Mack Brown's UT teams with college eligibility remaining. Cavil was suspended from the team prior to the bowl game in his junior year, for “violation of team rules.” The nature of the violation was not specified by Brown, Cavil, or the university. It is uncertain if Cavil would have been welcomed back to the team for his senior season if he had not left early, but it was reported at the time that Brown says he never tells players what to do if they are considering entering the NFL draft early, implying that it was in fact an early departure for the draft. Cavil himself said “After great deliberation with my family, I have decided to forego my final year of eligibility and go to the NFL,” Cavil subsequently went undrafted.

After his professional football career, Cavil returned to the University of Texas to complete his studies, earning his Bachelor's degree from the College of Education in the Spring of 2010.

Professional career

Cavil was a wide receiver for the NFL Buffalo Bills in 2000.

Cavil joined the CFL in 2002, signing his first contract with the Montreal Alouettes. He has since moved around the league, most recently having been traded by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to the Blue Bombers on Friday, August 18, 2006 for a third round pick in the 2007 CFL Draft. He had been traded from the Edmonton Eskimos to Hamilton in March 2006, and was dealt from Edmonton to Montreal the previous year before returning to the Eskimos. While in Montreal, Cavil was a CFL Eastern All-Star in 2004 with over 1,000 receiving yards. Cavil began to create a name for himself in Winnipeg, in part because of his unique end zone dances. As of February 16, 2007 Cavil is a CFL free agent and is in ongoing contract negotiations with the Winnipeg football club. As of August 2009 negotiations are still ongoing.

References

1. ^ Cavil moves on Edmonton Sun August 19, 2006
2. ^ [4] Mack Brown-Texas Football May 25, 2010
3. ^ Texas' Cavil puts name into NFL hat Sports Illustrated January 7, 2000