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Billy Martin (tight end)

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Name
  
Billy Martin

College
  
Georgia Tech

Role
  
American football player

1964-1965
  
Chicago Bears

Positions
  
Tight end

1966-1967
  
Atlanta Falcons


Date of birth
  
(1942-10-27) October 27, 1942 (age 73)

NFL draft
  
1964 / Round: 2 / Pick: 21

Education
  
Georgia Institute of Technology

Place of birth
  
Gainesville, Georgia

Jake William "Billy" Martin (born October 27, 1942) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears, the Atlanta Falcons, and the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football at Georgia Tech and was drafted in the second round (twenty-first overall selection) of the 1964 NFL Draft. Martin was subsequently selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the 1966 NFL Expansion Draft.

Martin played high school football at Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Georgia. He was a teammate of Billy Lothridge both at Gainesville High and Georgia Tech.

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