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Position: | Nose tackle | ||||||||||||
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Born: | Natchez, Mississippi, U.S. | March 20, 1962||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 264 lb (120 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Jim Hill (Jackson, Mississippi) | ||||||||||||
College: | Southern Miss | ||||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1985 / round: 2 / pick: 36 | ||||||||||||
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Richard Byrd played football for Jim Hill High School. Byrd played collegiately for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles. He earned All-South Independent second-team honors in 1983 and first-team honors in 1984.
He spent five years in the NFL on the Houston Oilers, who selected him in the second round of the 1985 NFL draft. [3] [4]
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