kellen winslow
I personally think that Tamme may have the best NFL career of all the UK playersjust look at some of the premiere TE’s in the NFL right now: Antonio Gates, Kellen Winslow Jr, Dallas Clark, and Jeremy Shockey, to name a few. As long as Tamme goes to a team that realizes he will never be a dominant blocker in the NFL, I predict a good NFL career.
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Kellen Boswell Winslow II is an American football tight end for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He is the son of Kellen Winslow, a Hall of Fame tight end who played for the San Diego Chargers.
Winslow hauls in four balls : Cleveland TE Kellen Winslow caught four passes for 26 yards on Saturday in a preseason game against the Lions. .
Kellen Winslow, a 6-5, 250-pound tight end played for the San Diego Chargers from 1979 to 1987.
Kellen Boswell Winslow is a Hall of Fame former professional American football tight end with the University of Missouri and the San Diego Chargers. Kellen Boswell Winslow.Chargers first-round draft pick, 1979.Became premier tight end of his era.Had 89 catches, 1980.Also had two 88-reception seasons, 1981, 1983.Had 13 catches, blocked field goal in 1981 playoff win over Miami.
The big-bodied Winslow should get just as many looks down the middle and in the flat this year, so he has 100-catch upside; however, he’s already suffered so many injuries in his brief career, you need to be just a smidgen wary about his health.
Despite playing with a bad shoulder and two creaky knees in 2007, Winslow caught 82 passes on 148 targets, which included 17 red zone looks and five touchdowns.
In his nine NFL seasons, Winslow caught 541 passes for 6,741 yards and 45 touchdowns.
In a 1981 regular season game, Winslow tied an NFL record by catching five touchdown passes.
He also exceeded the 1,000 yards receiving milestone in 3 different seasons, including setting a single season record for receiving yards by a tight end with a whopping 1,290 yards in the 1980 season.
Winslow is frequently credited, along with Ozzie Newsome and John Mackey, with redefining the position of tight end.
In 1999, he was ranked number 73 on The Sporting News ‘ list of the 100 Greatest Football Players.
Winslow was drafted by the Cleveland Browns out of the University of Miami with the sixth pick in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft.
In the opening game of the 2006 NFL season against the New Orleans Saints, Winslow recorded his first NFL touchdown, scoring on an 18-yard pass from quarterback Charlie Frye. Winslow emerged as a reliable target for Cleveland, finishing the year with 89 receptions, the most at his position on the season, which also tied Ozzie Newsome’s all-time franchise record for receptions in a season.
Initially, it was speculated that the Browns would seek to recoup a pro-rated share of the $6 million signing bonus Winslow received in 2004 and perhaps the entire $4.4 million option bonus he was paid in March 2005, although the Browns later declined to take such action.
The Postons secured a six-year $40 million deal for Winslow, including a $16.5 million signing bonus.
Winslow attended the Browns’ 2006 training camp and pronounced himself ready to play. The Associated Press reported in August 2006 that Winslow said that, even at 90 percent, he was superior to every other NFL tight end.
Winslow generated significant national attention following a 2003 University of Miami loss to the University of Tennessee Volunteers. ESPN - Kellen Winslow Stats, News, Photos - Cleveland Browns FOX Sports on MSN: Kellen Winslow, Tight end, Browns, NFL
