Rod Woodson American football player

Roderick Kevin "Rod" Woodson (born March 10, 1965) is a former American football defensive back who played in the National Football League for seventeen seasons. He had a 10-year stint with the Pittsburgh Steelers and was a key member of the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl XXXV championship season. He also played for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders, wearing the jersey number 26 throughout his career. He holds the NFL records for career interception return yardage (1,483) and interception returns for touchdowns (12), and was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1993. His 71 career interceptions is the third-most in NFL history. He was an inductee of the Class of 2009 of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio on August 8, 2009. From his retirement in 2003 to February 2011, Woodson worked as an analyst for the NFL Network on NFL Total Access and Thursday Night Football, and as a color-commentator for the Big Ten Network. He spent the 2011 season as the Raiders' cornerbacks coach.

Personal facts

Rod Woodson
Alias (AKA)Woodson Roderick Kevin; Woodson Roderick K.
Birth dateMarch 10, 1965
Birth place
Fort Wayne Indiana
Height (meters)1.8288
Weight (Kilograms)92.988

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American football player

Career start1987
Career end2003
Debut team
Pittsburgh Steelers
Draft pick10
Draft round1
Draft year1987
Former team
Baltimore Ravens
Oakland Raiders
Pittsburgh Steelers
San Francisco 49ers
Position
Cornerback
Safety (American and Canadian football position)

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External resources

  1. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2S8xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G3ADAAAAIBAJ&dq=renaissance-hotel%20pittsburgh&pg=2555%2C4823978
  2. http://www.raiders.com/team/coaches/rod-woodson/bee3956c-4976-46d6-8531-c70af2a4fd4b