Wade Wilson (American football)
American football player and coach (1959–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Charles Wade Wilson (February 1, 1959 – February 1, 2019) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys, and Oakland Raiders in a seventeen-year NFL career from 1981 to 1998. He was quarterbacks coach for the Dallas Cowboys from 2000 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2017, and also for the Chicago Bears from 2004 to 2006.[1] He played college football for East Texas State Lions (now Texas A&M–Commerce), where he was an NAIA All-American quarterback and led the Lions to the NAIA national semifinals during the 1980 season.
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Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||
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Born: | (1959-02-01)February 1, 1959 Greenville, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||||
Died: | February 1, 2019(2019-02-01) (aged 60) Coppell, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||||
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High school: | Commerce (Commerce, Texas) | ||||||||||
College: | East Texas State (1977–1980) | ||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1981 / Round: 8 / Pick: 210 | ||||||||||
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