Winslow Oliver
No. 20, 33, 26 | |||||||||||
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Position: | Running back | ||||||||||
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Born: | Houston, Texas, U.S. | March 3, 1973||||||||||
Height: | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 180 lb (82 kg) | ||||||||||
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High school: | Kempner (Sugar Land, Texas) | ||||||||||
College: | New Mexico | ||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1996 / Round: 3 / Pick: 73 | ||||||||||
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Winslow Paul Oliver (born March 3, 1973) is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Carolina Panthers and the Atlanta Falcons.
Career
[edit]Oliver is a 1991 graduate of Kempner High School in Sugar Land, Texas. He also attended the University of New Mexico, where he set a number of team records and was awarded the 1996 Hula Bowl MVP.
In the third round of the 1996 NFL draft (#73 overall pick) Oliver was selected by the Panthers.[1] He played for the Panthers for three seasons, mainly on special teams. His jersey was #20. The highlight of his career was an 84-yard punt return for a touchdown against the New Orleans Saints on September 8, 1996.
He became a free agent and played for the Falcons in the 1999 and 2000 seasons, before being released. In 1999 he wore #33, before switching to #26 his last year in the NFL.
References
[edit]- ^ "1996 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Players of American football from Houston
- American football running backs
- American football return specialists
- Kempner High School alumni
- New Mexico Lobos football players
- Carolina Panthers players
- Atlanta Falcons players
- American football running back, 1970s birth stubs
- Texas people stubs