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Position: | Guard Tackle | ||||||||
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Born: | Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. | April 20, 1957||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 265 lb (120 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Greensboro (NC) Smith [1] | ||||||||
College: | Clemson | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1979 / round: 3 / pick: 64 | ||||||||
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Joe Earl Bostic Jr. (born April 20, 1957) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive lineman, primarily at guard, for 11 seasons with the St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was the Cardinals' third-round selection in the 1979 NFL draft. He played high school football at Ben L. Smith High School and college football for the Clemson Tigers. He is the older brother of fellow NFL player Jeff Bostic. [2]
Joe has been inducted into the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame in 2023. [3] He has also previously been inducted into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame (2008), [4] South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame (2000), [5] North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame (2015), [6] and the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame (1996). [7]
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