Earnest Gray
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| Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
| Born: | March 2, 1957 Greenwood, Mississippi, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 195 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||
| High school: | Greenwood (MS) | ||||||||
| College: | Memphis | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1979 / round: 2 / pick: 36 | ||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||
| Career NFL statistics | |||||||||
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Earnest L. Gray (born March 2, 1957) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals. He played college football for the Memphis Tigers and was selected by the Giants in the second round of the 1979 NFL draft. He caught 78 passes for 1,139 yards and five touchdowns in 1983.[1]
He played on a Giants team that in 1981 made the playoffs after a 18-year hiatus. He finished his career with 246 receptions for 3,790 yards and 27 touchdowns.
NFL career statistics
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Regular season
[edit]| Year | Team | Games | Receiving | |||||
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| GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | ||
| 1979 | NYG | 16 | 14 | 28 | 537 | 19.2 | 53 | 4 |
| 1980 | NYG | 16 | 16 | 52 | 777 | 14.9 | 50 | 10 |
| 1981 | NYG | 16 | 3 | 22 | 360 | 16.4 | 45 | 2 |
| 1982 | NYG | 9 | 9 | 25 | 426 | 17.0 | 47 | 4 |
| 1983 | NYG | 16 | 16 | 78 | 1,139 | 14.6 | 62 | 5 |
| 1984 | NYG | 12 | 11 | 38 | 529 | 13.9 | 31 | 2 |
| 1985 | STL | 5 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 7.3 | 12 | 0 |
| 90 | 69 | 246 | 3,790 | 15.4 | 62 | 27 | ||
Playoffs
[edit]| Year | Team | Games | Receiving | |||||
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| GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | ||
| 1981 | NYG | 2 | 2 | 4 | 130 | 32.5 | 72 | 1 |
| 1984 | NYG | 2 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10.0 | 11 | 0 |
| 4 | 3 | 6 | 150 | 25.0 | 72 | 1 | ||
References
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