Frank Grant (American football)
Appearance
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Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||
Born: | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | February 15, 1950||||||||
Height: | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 181 lb (82 kg) | ||||||||
Career information | |||||||||
High school: | East Side (NJ) | ||||||||
College: | Colorado State-Pueblo | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1972 / round: 13 / pick: 332 | ||||||||
Career history | |||||||||
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Frank Grant (born February 15, 1950) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played college football at Southern Colorado and was drafted in the 13th round of the 1972 NFL draft.
Early life
[edit]Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Grant was raised in Newark, New Jersey and attended East Side High School, where he played organized football for the first time despite having been told as a freshman that he was too small, at 140 pounds (64 kg), to play the sport competitively.[1]
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 | ||
1973 | WAS | 13 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 1 |
1974 | WAS | 14 | 1 | 9 | 196 | 21.8 | 69 | 1 |
1975 | WAS | 14 | 9 | 41 | 776 | 18.9 | 96 | 8 |
1976 | WAS | 14 | 14 | 50 | 818 | 16.4 | 53 | 5 |
1977 | WAS | 14 | 14 | 34 | 480 | 14.1 | 59 | 3 |
1978 | WAS | 6 | 6 | 6 | 92 | 15.3 | 23 | 0 |
TAM | 10 | 4 | 8 | 112 | 14.0 | 20 | 0 | |
85 | 48 | 149 | 2,486 | 16.7 | 96 | 18 |
Playoffs
[edit]Year | Team | Games | Receiving | |||||
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GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | ||
1973 | WAS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
1974 | WAS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | 0 |
1976 | WAS | 1 | 1 | 6 | 70 | 11.7 | 21 | 1 |
3 | 1 | 7 | 85 | 12.1 | 21 | 1 |
References
[edit]- ^ Shapiro, Leonard. "Redskin Grant Has Overcome Long Odds", The Washington Post, October 7, 1977. Accessed October "'If you knew where he came from, what his background was, you'd know what I'm talking about,' said Bert Nanhoff, Grant's football coach at East Side High in Newark and now a guidance counselor at a suburban school in northern New Jersey.... That determination showed up early, because Manhoff once told Grant, then a puny 140-pound freshman, that he was simply too small to play high school football."
Categories:
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Players of American football from Brooklyn
- American football wide receivers
- CSU Pueblo ThunderWolves football players
- Washington Redskins players
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
- East Side High School (Newark, New Jersey) alumni
- Players of American football from Newark, New Jersey
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football wide receiver, 1950s birth stubs