Louis Lipps
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New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. | |||||
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||
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| Weight: | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||
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| High school: | East St. John (Reserve, Louisiana) | ||||
| College: | Southern Miss | ||||
| NFL draft: | 1984 / Round: 1 / Pick: 23 | ||||
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| Player stats at NFL.com · PFR | |||||
Louis Adam Lipps Jr. (born August 9, 1962) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL), spending eight seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers and one with the New Orleans Saints.
He was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 1984 NFL draft after a college football career at the Southern Miss Golden Eagles.[1] Lipps also attended East St. John High School in Reserve, Louisiana.[2]
College statistics
- 1980: 2 catches for 28 yards. 8 punt returns for 54 yards. 3 kick returns for 61 yards.[3]
- 1981: 9 catches for 181 yards and 1 touchdown. 7 punt returns for 31 yards.
- 1982: 38 catches for 468 yards and 2 touchdowns. 2 carries for 10 yards. 23 punt returns for 280 yards and 1 touchdown.
- 1983: 42 catches for 800 yards and 5 touchdowns. 6 carries for 52 yards and 1 touchdown. 40 punt returns for 460 yards.
NFL career
His teammate
NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year at season's end and was also named to the AFC Pro Bowl
team for that year.
Lipps' second season in
1988, finishing with 50 catches for 973 receiving yards and 5 touchdown catches including the Steel City Wonder, where he caught a ball in his facemask and scored. One of his injuries occurred in 1986 against the defending Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears, where he viciously took an elbow to the face by Bears linebacker Otis Wilson
. In 1989, Lipps again led the team in receptions (50), receiving yards (944) and receiving touchdowns (5) and was named Team MVP for the second time.
Lipps left the Steelers for one season to play for the New Orleans Saints for two games in 1992 before retiring as a Steeler in 1993. Lipps caught 359 passes for 6031 yards and 39 touchdowns in his career.
References
- ^ "1984 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
- ^ "East St. John Alumni Pro Stats". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
- ^ "Louis Lipps College Stats". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
- ^ 86 HINES WARD Archived September 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine