Danny Villa

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Danny Villa
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Position: Guard, tackle, center
Personal information
Born: (1964-09-21) September 21, 1964 (age 59)
Nogales, Arizona, U.S.
Height:6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Weight:304 lb (138 kg)
Career information
High school: Nogales (AZ)
College: Arizona State
NFL Draft: 1987  / Round: 5 / Pick: 113
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Games played:157
Games started:77
Player stats at NFL.com  ·  PFR

Daniel A. Villa (born September 21, 1964) is a former American football guard who played twelve professional seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the New England Patriots, Phoenix Cardinals, Kansas City Chiefs, and Carolina Panthers. He was a fifth round draft pick by the Patriots in the 1987 NFL Draft. [1] Villa played college football at Arizona State University.

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Villa was born in Nogales, Arizona and is of Mexican descent. [2]

College career

Villa was a first-team All-American and PAC-10 selection in 1986. With assistance from Villa, Arizona State averaged more than 200 yards rushing per game for 17 consecutive contests in 1985 and 1986. He was named honorable mention All-PAC 10 in 1985. After not starting a game in 1984 and being moved from quick tackle to strong guard in spring practice then moved back again. He performed in the 1987 East-West Shrine Game and Senior Bowl.

Post-playing career

Villa was the athletic director at Walpole High School in Walpole, Massachusetts. [3] He also served as the head coach of the Walpole Rebels, the Walpole high school football team. [4]

On December 27, 2008, Villa was arrested in Tucson, Arizona for charges of child rape that allegedly occurred while he was coaching in Massachusetts. On August 26, 2009, he pleaded guilty in court to three counts of rape of a child and two counts of enticing a child. He was sentenced to two years on the first and second rape indictments with 2 years concurrent on the enticing indictments. According to a press release from Norfolk County District Attorney William Keating, he was sentenced to "7 years' probation on the third rape indictment with conditions of probation that he must register as a sex offender, submit to GPS monitoring while on probation, have no contact with the victim or the victim's family and he cannot work with any children under the age of 16. Judge Chernoff also ordered an 'exclusion zone' around every school in the Commonwealth, meaning that Villa cannot set foot in any school in Massachusetts while on probation." [5]

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References

  1. "1987 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
  2. Mario Longoria, Athletes Remembered: Mexicano/Latino Professional Football Players, 1929–1970, Bilingual Press, 1997, p. 130.
  3. "Administration". Archived from the original on November 4, 2007. Retrieved September 21, 2007.
  4. "Walpole High School Rebels Football, Coaches and Players". Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2007.
  5. Villa admits to child rape