Weight 99.8 kg Height: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | College: Stanford Name Chris Burford | |
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Date of birth: (1938-01-31) January 31, 1938 (age 77) NFL draft: 1960 / Round: 9 / Pick: 105 AFL draft: 1960 / Round: 1 / Pick: Similar People Abner Haynes, Sherrill Headrick, Fred Arbanas | ||
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Christopher William Burford III (born January 31, 1938) is a former American football wide receiver.
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Burford was a football captain at Stanford, leading the NCAA in receptions with 61 in 1959. The following year, he was a first round draft pick of the Dallas Texans. in the American Football League (AFL) He led the Texans/Chiefs in pass receptions in four seasons (1961–1963, 1965). An AFL All-Star in 1961, he followed that performance with a team-record 12 receptions for touchdowns in 1962. By the end of his career, he was the Chiefs all-time reception leader (391) with 5,505 yards and 55 touchdowns.
For most of his AFL career, Burford was in the top ten in receiving catches, yards, and touchdowns. Burford is a 1975 inductee of the Chiefs' Hall of Fame. In 2010, he was inducted into the African-American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame. Burford, who is white, was nominated by former black teammate Abner Haynes.