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Position: | Linebacker | ||||||
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Born: | Miami, Florida, U.S. | October 23, 1961||||||
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College: | Texas | ||||||
NFL Draft: | 1983 / Round: 6 / Pick: 152 | ||||||
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Julian Luis "Kiki" DeAyala (born October 23, 1961) is a former American football linebacker in the United States Football League (USFL) and the National Football League (NFL). [1] He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the sixth round of the 1983 NFL Draft, but first played for the USFL's Houston Gamblers. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns. [2] [3] He graduated from Memorial High School in Houston, Texas. [4]
DeAyala holds six Texas Longhorns records including career sacks with 40.5 and sacks in a season with 22.5. [5]
DeAyala currently owns a real estate development company in Houston/Rockport, Texas, known as DeAyala Properties. [6] [7]
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