Who's the best player to come out of your school?

[rollredroll]

Most of these are from the last few years, so I'm sure I'm leaving out some guys, but here's some good one's from MBA:

 

Hunter Hillenmeyer, LB- Vanderbilt, Chicago Bears

Will Bartholomew, FB- UT, Denver Broncos

Ingle Martin, QB- Florida/Furman currently

Moses Osemwegie, LB- Vanderbilt currently

Dominique Morris, DB- Vanderbilt, NFL?

John Markham, K-Vanderbilt (all time leading scorer), NY Giants draft pick

Tom Santi, TE- UVA currently

Michael Fisher, QB- Ga. Tech baseball

 

RollRedRoll can probably help me out with some more names.

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Bill Wade (MBA Class of '48) would be worthy of mention, at least based on his 13-year pro career.

 

> 124 passing TDs, 18,530 yards

> 24 rushing TDs, 1,334 yards

> 2 Pro Bowls (1958, 1963)

> Led Chicago to 1963 NFL Championship, 14-10 over NY Giants

[CountryBoy4Life]

Elizabethton High School

Jason Witten-Tennessee-Dallas Cowboys

Shawn Witten-Virginia Tech

Vince Redd-Virginia

Josh Fair-Navy

many others to D-ll schools or smaller schools

these are also only players from the last 15 years, numberous players from years past to D-l schools and NFL.

Edited June 7, 2005 by CountryBoy4Life

[RadioChris]

I'm not from Marion Co. or South Pittsburg,but these players played for UT.....

Eric Westmoreland-Marion County-UT-Jacksonville Jags....not sure where he plays now...

Eddie Moore-I think he was from South Pitt-UT- now plays for Buffalo Bills....

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Westmoreland played last year for Cleveland. To my knowledge he's not on the Brown's roster this season. He played mostly specials teams last year.

Eric has had some injuries that have really hampered his pro career.

 

Eddie Moore plays for the Dolphins and is expected to compete for a starting position at OLB this year. With Thomas and Seau getting older I expect Eddie to get every chance to start this year.

 

A few others from Marion:

Pumpy Tudors - UTC - All American in college, named to the ALL TIME Team at UTC. Went to camp with the Eagles, punted well, but was beaten out by the vetran Jeff Feagles. Was in the Bills camp in Parcells first year. Was cut early.

In HS was all state at three diferent positions - RB, P and either KR or DB I can't remember now.

 

Eddie Brown - UT - best known for getting his teeth knocked out while blocking a punt against Memphis (I think). Played Saftey and had a long career in the NFL and USFL. Led the NFL in Kick Returns in 1973. Played in the Super Bowl with the Rams and I think was on a USFL champion team also.

 

There have been tons more from both of these programs. Some really great player from two programs with lots of tradition.

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Chad Pennington-Knox Webb High- Marshall- Jets

[BigSneaky]

Germantown Red Devils:

 

Tony Williams -University of Memphis- Vikings,Bengals and currently with the Jaguars.

Mark Brown -Auburn- and currently with NY Jets.

Cory Peterson -Ole Miss- 5th all time in receptions for the Rebels.

Courtney Leavitt -South Carolina- All-USA Class of '95.

Terrance Patterson -Harvard- 2nd all time in receptions for the Crimson.

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Science Hill Hilltoppers:

 

1. Phil Stewart - Tennessee

2. Terry Copeland - Tennessee Tech

3. Aubrayo Franklin - Tennessee

4. Steve Spurrier - Florida (need to say anything else?)

[donkeylips]

Dobyns-Bennett High School

 

Bobby Dodd-QB Tennessee-coach at GT Stadium named after him

Mike Faulkerson-Played with the Bears and Panthers

Teddy Gaines-DB Tennessee-San Fransisco and New England

Gerald Sensabaugh-DB East Tennessee State and North Carolina-Jacksonville Jaguars

[All_Stater]

Brandon Wells from Moore County. Weighed 250, played tailback and could fly. Benched 315 when he was in eighth grade. But his grades wasn't good enough to play D1 ball.

[biglon68]

Science Hill Hilltoppers:

 

1. Phil Stewart - Tennessee

2. Terry Copeland - Tennessee Tech

3. Aubrayo Franklin - Tennessee

4. Steve Spurrier - Florida (need to say anything else?)

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How about Van Williams from Science Hill, spent 4 years with the Buffalo Bills 1983-85,87

[biglon68]

Dobyns-Bennett High School

 

Bobby Dodd-QB Tennessee-coach at GT Stadium named after him

Mike Faulkerson-Played with the Bears and Panthers

Teddy Gaines-DB Tennessee-San Fransisco and New England

Gerald Sensabaugh-DB East Tennessee State and North Carolina-Jacksonville Jaguars

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Dobyns-Bennett Indians in Pro football

 

Ed Cifers (Tennessee) 1941-42,46 Washington Redskins, 1947-48 Chicago Bears.

 

Bob Cifers (Tennessee) 1946 Detroit Lions, 1947-48 Pittsburgh Steelers, 1949 Green Bay Packers.

 

Denver Crawford (Tennessee) 1948 New York Yankees(AAFC) (drafted by Packers but Yankees offered more $).

 

Hal Miller (Georgia Tech) 1953 San Francisco 49ers.

 

Mike Faulkerson-Dulaney (North Carolina) 1994-95 Albany Firebirds (AFL), 1995-1997 Chicago Bears, 1998 Carolina Panthers.

 

Freddie Powell (Memphis) 2001-2002 Memphis Xplorers (AFL2)

 

Teddy Gaines (Tennessee) 2003 Rhein Fire (NFL Europe)

 

Gerald Sensabaugh (North Carolina) 2005 Jacksonville Jaguars

 

Three former Indians have been drafted but did not play:

Jim Chadwell (Tennessee) drafted by the NY Giants in 1945, Darrell Crawford (Georgia Tech) drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in 1952 and David Steadman (Georgia Tech) drafted by the LA Rams in 1962.

 

Roll Tribe!

[biglon68]

Elizabethton High School

Jason Witten-Tennessee-Dallas Cowboys

Shawn Witten-Virginia Tech

Vince Redd-Virginia

Josh Fair-Navy

many others to D-ll schools or smaller schools

these are also only players from the last 15 years, numberous players from years past to D-l schools and NFL.

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Ernie Mills (1960's) and Dale Fair (1970's) were Betsy guys who played at Tennessee

[Redtwin]

Bill Wade (MBA Class of '48) would be worthy of mention, at least based on his 13-year pro career.

 

> 124 passing TDs, 18,530 yards

> 24 rushing TDs, 1,334 yards

> 2 Pro Bowls (1958, 1963)

> Led Chicago to 1963 NFL Championship, 14-10 over NY Giants

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I think Wade was the number 1 overall in the draft that year. Dominique is also in camp with the Bucs right now and he feels like he has a pretty good shot to make it. Not bad for a guy that was the mascot his sophomore year.

 

I'm sure there are some more older guys that qualify. How bout Mr. Damon Regen?