Vernon Maxwell (American football)
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Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||
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Born: | Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. | October 25, 1961||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 233 lb (106 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Los Angeles (CA) Verbum Dei | ||||||||
College: | Arizona State | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1983 / round: 2 / pick: 29 | ||||||||
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Vernon Leroy Maxwell (born October 25, 1961) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1980s. Maxwell played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils, earning consensus All-American honors in 1982. He played professionally for the Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts, Detroit Lions and Seattle Seahawks, and was recognized as the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Maxwell was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Categories:
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Players of American football from Birmingham, Alabama
- American football linebackers
- Arizona State Sun Devils football players
- All-American college football players
- Baltimore Colts players
- National Football League Defensive Rookie of the Year Award winners
- Detroit Lions players
- Seattle Seahawks players
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football linebacker, 1960s birth stubs