Place of birth Perry, Florida Name Rick Tuten Pro bowls 1994 Pro Bowl 1991-1997 Seattle Seahawks Positions Punter | 1990 Buffalo Bills 1989 Philadelphia Eagles Role American football player | |
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Date of birth (1965-01-05) January 5, 1965 (age 50) College Florida State University | ||
Education Florida State University | ||
Richard Lamar Tuten (January 5, 1965 – June 13, 2017) was an American football punter in the National Football League who played most of his career with the Seattle Seahawks. He punted the ball 108 times in 1992, tied for fourth-most in a season in NFL history. In 1992, he punted for 4,760 yards with an average of 44.1 yards per punt. In 1994, the year he went to his only Pro Bowl, he punted the ball 91 times for 3,905 yards, an average of 42.9 yards per punt, and also scored a 2-pt. conversion, the only scored points of his career. Tuten also received a ring as a member of the St. Louis Rams' Super Bowl XXXIV championship team. However, he did not play in the game itself due to injury.
In 1998, while with the Seattle Seahawks, he won the designation as the league's strongest man pound-for-pound in FLEX magazine. Tuten died on June 13, 2017 while on vacation in Costa Rica.
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