Joe Kelly (American football)
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Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||
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Born: | Sun Valley, California, U.S. | December 11, 1964||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 227 lb (103 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Thomas Jefferson (Los Angeles, California) | ||||||||
College: | Washington | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1986 / round: 1 / pick: 11 | ||||||||
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Joseph Winston Kelly, Jr. (born December 11, 1964) is a former American football linebacker who played eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for six different teams. He played college football at the University of Washington under head coach Don James and was team's MVP as a senior in 1985. In his junior season in 1984, the Huskies finished second in the polls after upsetting Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl.
Kelly was selected in the first round as the eleventh overall selection of the 1986 NFL Draft, taken by the Cincinnati Bengals.[1] After four seasons with Cincinnati, he played three more with the New York Jets, then one each with the Los Angeles Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers, and Philadelphia Eagles.
See also
References
- ^ "1986 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
External links
- Kraft, Joy (2007-08-11). "NFL was easy by comparison". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett Company. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
- Career statistics from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference
Categories:
- 1964 births
- Living people
- People from Sun Valley, Los Angeles
- American football linebackers
- Washington Huskies football players
- Cincinnati Bengals players
- New York Jets players
- Los Angeles Raiders players
- Los Angeles Rams players
- Green Bay Packers players
- Philadelphia Eagles players
- People from Loveland, Ohio
- Players of American football from Los Angeles
- Sportspeople from the Cincinnati metropolitan area
- Players of American football from Ohio
- Jefferson High School (Los Angeles) alumni
- American football linebacker, 1960s birth stubs