Frank Grant (American football)
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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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Career NFL statistics | |||||||
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Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
Frank Grant (born February 15, 1950) is a former
1972 NFL Draft
.
Early life
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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Led the league | |
Bold | Career high |
Regular season
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
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
- ^ 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."