Tim Brown (football player)
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Position (s): Wide Receiver |
Jersey number (s): 81 |
| born July 22, 1966 in Dallas , Texas | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1988 - 2004 | |
| NFL Draft : 1988 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6 | |
| College : Notre Dame | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Captured passports | 1,094 |
| Captive yards | 14,934 |
| Touchdowns | 105 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Pro Football Hall of Fame | |
| College Football Hall of Fame | |
Timothy Donell "Tim" Brown (* 22. July 1966 in Dallas , Texas ) is a former American American football poker players on the position of wide receiver . In his college days he played for the University of Notre Dame and won the Heisman Trophy in 1987 as the first wide receiver . After he was selected in the draft of the Los Angeles Raiders , he played for them for 16 years in the National Football League (NFL). In 2015 he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame .
Career
college
Brown attended and played college football for Notre Dame from 1984 to 1987. During that time he caught 137 passes for 2,493 yards , scored 22 touchdowns and gained a total of 5,024 yards. In his senior year he won the Heisman Trophy as best player . He was and is to this day (2016) the only wide receiver to receive this award. In 2009 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame .
NFL
Brown was selected sixth in the 1988 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Raiders . In his first season he was statistically the best kick returner in the league. Due to injury, he had to pause the 1989 season and was then mainly used as a punt returner . After catching only 147 passes in the first five years , he had his breakthrough in 1993 as a wide receiver with 80 passes for 1,180 yards . Eight more seasons followed, in which he reached more than 1,000 yards in the passing game.
In March 1994 , the Denver Broncos Brown submitted a new contract as a free agent , but the Raiders outbid and thus further tied Brown.
Brown was nine times in the Pro Bowl appointed, where he in 1988 and 1991 played as a kick returner and in other vocations 1993 - 97 , 1999 and 2001 ran aground as a wide receiver. Despite his achievements and the fact that he and Jerry Rice formed the oldest wide receiver duo in the league from 2001 , the Raiders did not win a Super Bowl during this time . In Super Bowl XXXVII , they were defeated by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers .
Before the 2004 season , he was fired by the Raiders because he did not accept his new role in the offense . He then switched to the Buccaneers, where he ended his career after an unspectacular season. In 2005, however, he again signed a "one-day contract" with the Raiders to officially end his career there. When he resigned, he was second with 14,934 receiving yards and third with 1,094 pass catches and 100 touchdowns on the all-time list of the best. With his 19,682 yards reached, he is fifth on the best list.
Records (selection)
During his career, Brown achieved several records and awards that still stand:
- He is the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy
- NFL record for ten consecutive seasons with at least 75 passports caught
- NFL record holder as oldest player to have scored a touchdown on the Special Team (35 years, 140 days) (85-yard punt return touchdown)
- Record holder with most consecutive games with at least one trapped pass (147 games, 1993-2002)
- NFL record holder with the most consecutive starts as a wide receiver: 176
- Brown holds the following team records in the Los Angeles / Oakland / Las Vegas Raiders:
- Most played games (240) and seasons (16)
- Most Touchdowns (104)
- Record holder in passing catches (14,734 yards, 1,070 catches, 99 touchdowns)
- Record holder for punt returns (3,272 punt return yards, 320 punt returns, 3 punt return touchdowns)
- Most yards (total): 19,434
- Most yards from the line of scrimmage : 14,924
Honors
On the third attempt, Brown was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on August 8, 2015 .
Web links
- Player statistics on pro-football-reference.com
- Tim Brown in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Tim Brown on the official Heisman Trophy website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Brown College Football Statistics
- ^ Stefan Feldmann: Legends - Receivers: Tim Brown. bigplay.ch, June 21, 2016, accessed on August 3, 2016 .
- ^ Steve Springer, Tim Brown Signs With Broncos: Pro football: Raiders have a week to match four-year. latimes.com, March 12, 1994, accessed August 3, 2016 .
- ^ Daniel Brown: Raiders receiver Tim Brown savors his time at Hall of Fame podium. mercurynews.com, August 8, 2015, accessed August 3, 2016 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brown, Tim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Timothy Donell (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dallas , Texas , United States |