Proverb Jacobs

Proverb Jacobs
Date of birth	May 25, 1935
Place of birth	Marksville, Louisiana
Date of death	April 18, 2016 (aged 80)
Place of death	Oakland, California
Career information
Position(s)	Offensive tackle; Defensive tackle
US college	California; Modesto
NFL draft	1958 / Round: 2 / Pick: 17
Career history
As player
1958	Philadelphia Eagles
1960	New York Giants
1961–1962	New York Titans (AFL)
1963–1964	Oakland Raiders (AFL)
Career stats
	Playing stats at NFL.com; Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com;

Proverb Gabriel Jacobs, Jr. (May 25, 1935 – April 18, 2016) was an American football offensive and defensive lineman in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants. He also played in the American Football League for the New York Titans and the Oakland Raiders. Jacobs played college football at Modesto Junior College and the University of California. He was drafted in the second round of the 1958 NFL Draft. Jacobs self-published his memoir, Autobiography of an Unknown Football Player, in 2014.^[1] He died in 2016 at the age of 80.^[2]

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