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{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1969)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox NFL biography
| image        =
| position     = [[Linebacker]]
| number       = 54
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1969|3|14}}
| birth_place  = [[Iowa City, Iowa]], U.S.
| death_date   = 
| height_ft    = 6
| height_in    = 2
| weight_lbs   = 255
| draftyear    = 1993
| draftround   = 7
| draftpick    = 181
| high_school  = [[Longmont High School|Longmont]]
| college      = [[Colorado Buffaloes football|Colorado]]
| teams        =
* [[Oakland Raiders|Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders]] ({{NFL Year|1993}}–{{NFL Year|2001}})
* [[Minnesota Vikings]] ({{NFL Year|2002}}–{{NFL Year|2003}})
| pastcoaching =
* [[Oakland Raiders]] ({{NFL Year|2010}}–{{NFL Year|2011}})<br> Linebackers coach
| highlights   =
* [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|National champion]] ([[1990 Colorado Buffaloes football team|1990]])
* 2× First-team All-[[Big Eight Conference|Big Eight]] ([[1991 All-Big Eight Conference football team|1991]], [[1992 All-Big Eight Conference football team|1992]])
| statlabel1   = [[Tackle (football move)|Tackles]]
| statvalue1   = 1,093
| statlabel2   = [[Quarterback sack|Sacks]]
| statvalue2   = 16
| statlabel3   = [[Interception]]s
| statvalue3   = 7 
}}
'''Gregory Biekert''' (born March 14, 1969) is an [[American football]] coach and former [[linebacker]] in the [[National Football League]] (NFL).

Biekert attended Longs Peak Middle School and Longmont High School in [[Longmont, Colorado]], where he lettered in [[High school football|football]]. He was a standout linebacker for the [[Colorado Buffaloes football|Colorado Buffaloes]].

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|    height in = 2 1/2
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| twenty split = 2.86
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After college, he was drafted by the then [[Oakland Raiders|L.A. Raiders]] in the seventh round of the [[1993 NFL draft]] and played in 176 games with 155 starts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1993 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1993/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> He led the Raiders in tackles for six seasons, including four straight years (1998–2001). He recovered the [[Tom Brady]] incomplete pass that was called because of the disputed and since overturned [[Tuck rule (football)|Tuck rule]] in the 2001 AFC divisional playoff game against the [[New England Patriots]] which Tom Brady admitted might have been a fumble in May 2022. After two full seasons with the [[Minnesota Vikings]], Biekert retired after the [[2003 NFL season|2003 season]].

Biekert rejoined the Raiders as an assistant coach on defense on July 27, 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.raiders.com/news/article-1/Biekert-Joins-Raiders-Coach-Staff/49d42046-8c4f-485b-bc52-2ed0d25554b2 |title=Biekert Joins Raiders Coach Staff |access-date=2010-07-29 |archive-date=2010-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730002553/http://www.raiders.com/news/article-1/Biekert-Joins-Raiders-Coach-Staff/49d42046-8c4f-485b-bc52-2ed0d25554b2 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was promoted to [[linebackers coach]] on February 8, 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.raiders.com/news/article-1/Biekert-Will-Serve-as-Linebacker-Coach-for-Raiders/5fb5242b-b4c5-419c-aa06-377552a9a90a |title=Biekert Will Serve as Linebacker Coach for Raiders |access-date=2011-02-08 |archive-date=2011-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210030130/http://www.raiders.com/news/article-1/Biekert-Will-Serve-as-Linebacker-Coach-for-Raiders/5fb5242b-b4c5-419c-aa06-377552a9a90a |url-status=dead }}</ref> He resigned to focus on family following the [[2011 NFL season|2011 season]]. He was the coach at Timnath Middle High School in Timnath, Colorado.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Footballstats |nfl=BIE397986 |espn=484 |cbs=3109 |yahoo=2562 |si=2562 |pfr=B/BiekGr20 }}
*[http://www.raiders.com/team/roster/Greg-Biekert/BIE397986 Oakland Raiders bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194800/http://www.raiders.com/team/roster/Greg-Biekert/BIE397986 |date=2013-10-29 }}

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[[Category:1969 births]]
[[Category:American football linebackers]]
[[Category:Colorado Buffaloes football players]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Los Angeles Raiders players]]
[[Category:Oakland Raiders players]]
[[Category:Minnesota Vikings players]]
[[Category:Oakland Raiders coaches]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Longmont, Colorado]]
[[Category:Players of American football from Colorado]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]


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