Willie Parker
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Position (s): running back |
Jersey number (s): 39 |
| born November 11, 1980 in Clinton , North Carolina | |
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| Active : 2004 - 2010 | |
| Undrafted in 2004 | |
| College : Ole Miss | |
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| erlaufene yards | 5,378 |
| Average per run | 4.3 |
| Touchdowns | 24 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Willie Everette Parker (born November 11, 1980 in Clinton , North Carolina ) is a retired American football player. Parker played as a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 2004 to 2009 and then moved to the Washington Redskins .
He spent his college years as a substitute at the University of North Carolina . He was not selected by any NFL team in the NFL Draft in 2004, but still got a contract with the Steelers.
On February 5, 2006, he won the Super Bowl XL with the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Seattle Seahawks . He was able to repeat this success with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2009 when Pittsburgh again won the Super Bowl against the Arizona Cardinals . He was elected to the Pro Bowl in the 2006 and 2007 seasons . In 2008 and 2009 he struggled with injury problems several times.
After he got in the 2009 season as a substitute for Rashard Mendenhall little playing time, he signed on April 2, 2010 a one-year contract with the Washington Redskins. There, however, it did not make it into the final roster.
After his playing career began to work as a coach. In 2015, he started as a running back coach at Heritage High School in Wake Forest , North Carolina . The former NFL player Dewayne Washington works as head coach and Torry Holt supports him as assistant head coach and trainer of the wide receivers .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] nfl.com (English) Accessed April 9, 2010
- ↑ Nick Stevens: Heritage hires Dewayne Washington to coach football, Torry Holt to be assistant. highschoolot.com, May 11, 2015, accessed August 10, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Parker, Willie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parker, Willie Everette (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clinton, North Carolina |