Eric Williams (safety)
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Position: | Safety | ||||||||
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Born: | Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. | February 21, 1960||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 188 lb (85 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Garner (Garner, North Carolina) | ||||||||
College: | North Carolina State | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1983 / round: 6 / pick: 164 | ||||||||
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Eric Thomas Williams (born February 21, 1960) is a former American football safety in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the sixth round of the 1983 NFL draft. He played college football at North Carolina State.
Williams also played for the Detroit Lions.
He was a 1978 graduate of Garner Magnet High School in Garner, North Carolina and was inducted into the high school's hall of fame in 2012.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Best, D Clay (April 2, 2012). "2012 Garner High Athletics Hall of Fame class announced, N&O's Tim Stevens included". Raleigh News & Observer. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Players of American football from Raleigh, North Carolina
- American football safeties
- NC State Wolfpack football players
- Pittsburgh Steelers players
- Detroit Lions players
- Garner Magnet High School alumni
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football defensive back, 1960s birth stubs