Who was held out for a contract dispute while University of Alabama graduate starting running back for the same team was rising to be known?
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Derrick Lassic Derrick Owens Lassic (born January 26, 1970) is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the Carolina Panthers. He played college football for the University of Alabama. He is most remembered for being the starting running back for the Cowboys for the first two games (both losses) of the 1993 season while Emmitt Smith held out in a contract dispute.
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Emmitt Smith Emmitt James Smith III (born May 15, 1969) is a former college and professional American football running back who became the National Football League's (NFL) all-time leading rusher during his fifteen seasons in the league during the 1990s and 2000s.
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Charley Pell Charles Byron Pell (February 17, 1941 – May 29, 2001) was an American college football player and coach. Pell was an Alabama native and an alumnus of the University of Alabama, where he played college football. He is most notably remembered as the head coach of the Clemson University and the University of Florida football teams. Pell was credited with laying the foundation for the later success of both programs, but his coaching career was tainted by National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules violations.
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History of Alabama Crimson Tide football The Alabama Crimson Tide football team represents the University of Alabama in American football.
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Cecil Dowdy Cecil Dowdy (September 5, 1945 – November 24, 2002) was an American college football player and businessman. He played offensive tackle for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide from 1964 through 1966. He was a member of both the 1964 and 1965 national championship teams. Dowdy was also a unanimous selection to the 1966 College Football All-America Team.
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Don Smith (running back) Donald Michael Smith (born October 30, 1963 in Hamilton, Mississippi) is a former American football running back in the National Football League, after a successful college football career at Mississippi State University as a quarterback. He scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XXV for the Buffalo Bills in what turned out to be the final carry of his career.
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Joe Mickles Joseph Nathan Mickles (born December 25, 1965 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a former American football running back. He played in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins in 1989 NFL season and the San Diego Chargers in the 1990 season. He played college football at the University of Mississippi from 1985 to 1988 and scored a touchdown in the team's 20-17 win over Texas Tech in the 1986 Independence Bowl. He was drafted in the twelfth round of the 1989 NFL Draft.
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Clarence Williams (running back, born 1975) Clarence "Pooh Bear" Williams (born January 20, 1975) is a former American football running back who played in college for the Florida State Seminoles football team and professionally in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills. He attended Crescent City High School, where he now coaches.
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Woody Green Woodrow Green, Jr. (born June 20, 1951) is a former American football running back who played for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. Green was drafted by the Chiefs in the first round of the 1974 NFL Draft. He is an alumnus of, set many rushing records, and was a first-team AP all-American while at Arizona State University. Green appeared on the front cover of the "Sports Illustrated" November 18, 1974 issue. His NFL career was shortened because of multiple knee injuries/surgeries.
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Lawyer Tillman Lawyer James Tillman (born May 20, 1966) is a former tight end in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns and Carolina Panthers. Tillman attended Auburn University. One of his more notable plays was an end-around reverse to beat rival Alabama in the 1986 Iron Bowl.
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Jimmie Hicks James W. Hicks was a college football player for the Alabama Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama from 1912 to 1914. He was selected All-Southern in 1914. Coach D. V. Graves said of his player Hicks: "There is no other guard down here who can break through the line and run down under punts as Hicks has done all the year."
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Glen Coffee Glenwood Razeem Coffee, Jr (born May 1, 1987) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft and played one season before retiring from football in 2010 and serving in the Army from 2013 to 2017. Coffee came out of retirement and was reinstated by the NFL on April 21, 2017. He played college football at the University of Alabama.
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Eldra Buckley Eldra Clemond Buckley (born June 23, 1985) is former American football running back. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2007, after playing college football at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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Lee Suggs Lee Ernest Suggs, Jr. (born August 11, 1980) is a former American football running back in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia Tech. He holds the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision records for most games scoring a touchdown in a single season (14 games in 2002), and most consecutive games scoring a touchdown (27 consecutive games, from Sept. 2, 2000 through Dec. 31, 2002; 57 touchdowns).
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Joe O'Donnell (American football) Joseph Raymond "Joe" O'Donnell (born August 31, 1941) is a former American football player. He played college football as a fullback, guard and tackle for the University of Michigan from 1960 to 1963. He also played professional football as a guard and tackle for eight seasons for the Buffalo Bills in the American Football League and the National Football League. He was a part of the 1964 and 1965 AFL Championship teams. O'Donnell was an AFL Eastern Division All-Star in 1965. In 1974, he came out of retirement to play for the Birmingham Americans of the upstart World Football League. He played for the WFL's Birmingham Vulcans in the 1975 season until the league collapsed, returning him to retirement from pro football.
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Jimmy Sidle James Corbin Sidle (February 7, 1942 – November 14, 1999) was a professional American football running back in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at Auburn University and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the 4th round (47th overall) of the 1965 NFL Draft.
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William Andrews (American football) William Andrews (born December 25, 1955) is a former NFL football running back. He played collegiately at Auburn University along with future NFL backs James Brooks and Joe Cribbs.
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Jimmy Nelson (American football) James Guess Nelson (July 26, 1919 – December 24, 1986) was an American football running back. He played one season in the AAFC for the Miami Seahawks. Nelson played college football at Alabama, where he was part of the 1941 National Championship team. Though selected by the Chicago Cardinals in the 1942 NFL Draft, he did not play professional football until 1946. Instead, he served at March Field during World War II.
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Rob Carpenter (running back) Robert Joseph Carpenter, Jr. (born April 20, 1955 in Lancaster, Ohio) is a former American football running back. He is the father of linebacker Bobby Carpenter, former University of Cincinnati linebacker Johnathan Carpenter, former Marshall University linebacker George Carpenter, and current Ohio defensive back Nathan Carpenter. He currently resides in Lancaster, Ohio and is a teacher and head coach of the Lancaster High School football team. He is a graduate of Miami University. He was best known for playing in the National Football League where he rushed for 4,363 yards in a ten-year career with the Houston Oilers, New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams.
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Johnny Bright incident The Johnny Bright incident was a violent on-field assault against African American player Johnny Bright by a white opposing player during an American college football game held on October 20, 1951 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The game was significant in itself as it marked the first time that an African American athlete with a national profile and of critical importance to the success of his team, the Drake Bulldogs, had played against Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) at Oklahoma A&M's Lewis Field. Bright's injury also highlighted the racial tensions of the times and assumed notoriety when it was captured in what was later to become both a widely disseminated and eventually Pulitzer Prize-winning photo sequence.
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Peyton Barber Peyton Barber (born June 27, 1994) is an American football running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Auburn Tigers. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Buccaneers in 2016.
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Art Malone (American football) Arthur Lee Malone (March 20, 1948 – July 27, 2012) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League for seven seasons for the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at Arizona State University and was drafted in the second round of the 1970 NFL Draft.