Name Ray Snell College Wisconsin Role American football player | 1980-1984 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Positions Guard 1984-1985 Pittsburgh Steelers | |
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Date of birth (1958-02-24) February 24, 1958 (age 57) NFL draft 1980 / Round: 1/ Pick 22 Education University of Wisconsin-Madison | ||
Place of birth Baltimore, Maryland | ||
Ray Snell (born February 24, 1958) is a former guard in the National Football League for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Pittsburgh Steelers and the Detroit Lions. Tampa Bay, using their 4th ever first round draft pick, acquired Snell with the 22nd pick in the first round of the 1980 NFL Draft. After four seasons in Tampa Bay in which he started 46 of 64 games he was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Once in Pittsburgh he immediately started 13 games. In 1986, he suffered a blow out fracture to the right eye, in which a bone was lodged behind it. He was then traded to the Detroit Lions where he retired. During 1981, he and George Yarno alternated plays bringing in the offensive play call for Doug Williams.
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