Johnny Bailey
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Template:Infobox NFL biography
Johnny Lee Bailey (March 17, 1967 – August 20, 2010) was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL).[1] He played college football for the Texas A&I Javelinas, earning first-team All-American honors in 1989.
Early life
Bailey was also a part of Houston's Yates High School football team when it won the 1985 5A state championship.
Career
Bailey was drafted in the ninth round out of Texas A&I University (now named Texas A&M University–Kingsville) in the 1990 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears.[2] While at Texas A&I, Bailey was the first, and so far only, player to be a three-time winner of the Harlon Hill Trophy, which is given to the best player in Division II college football. He played for the Bears for two years before going on to the Arizona Cardinals for two years, as well as playing for the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams. During his NFL career he played in 81 games and scored nine touchdowns.
Death
Bailey died on August 20, 2010, of pancreatic cancer.[3] He is buried at the Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland, Texas.
References
External links
Template:Harlon Hill Trophy Template:Bears1990DraftPicks
Template:Collegefootball-player-stub
Template:Runningback-1960s-stub
- Pages with script errors
- 1967 births
- 2010 deaths
- American football return specialists
- American football running backs
- Chicago Bears players
- Iowa Barnstormers players
- Los Angeles Rams players
- Phoenix Cardinals players
- St. Louis Rams players
- Texas A&M–Kingsville Javelinas football players
- College Football Hall of Fame inductees
- National Conference Pro Bowl players
- Players of American football from Houston
- Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Texas
- 20th-century African-American sportsmen
- 20th-century American sportsmen