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Position: | Defensive end | ||||||
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Born: | New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. | December 19, 1969||||||
Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 287 lb (130 kg) | ||||||
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High school: | Yates (Houston, Texas) | ||||||
College: | Baylor | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1992 / Round: 5 / Pick: 132 | ||||||
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Santana N. Dotson (born December 19, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). [1] [2] He was a part of Houston's Yates High School football team when it won the 1985 5A state championship. Dotson played college football for the Baylor Bears, earning unanimous All-American honors in 1991. He was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the fifth round of the 1992 NFL draft. [3] He won the 1992 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as he registered 10 sacks and then played in two Super Bowls with the Green Bay Packers. He won Super Bowl XXXI with the Packers. [4]
Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press |
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6 ft 4+1⁄4 in (1.94 m) | 267 lb (121 kg) | 33+3⁄4 in (0.86 m) | 9+5⁄8 in (0.24 m) | 5.03 s | 1.86 s | 3.00 s | 4.62 s | 28.5 in (0.72 m) | 9 ft 1 in (2.77 m) | 17 reps |
Santana Dotson is working to become an NFL broadcaster, and currently appears on the "Bob & Brian Show," on WHQG Radio in Milwaukee, during the NFL season.
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