Colin Scotts

Colin Scotts
No. 69
Position: Defensive end
Personal information
Born: (1963-04-26) 26 April 1963
Sydney, Australia
Height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Weight: 263 lb (119 kg)
Career information
High school: Sydney (NSW) Scots College
College: Hawaii
NFL Draft: 1987 / Round: 3 / Pick: 70
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR

Colin Roberts Scotts (born 26 April 1963) was the first Australian to receive an American football scholarship in the United States and be drafted into the NFL. He became the second Australian to play in the NFL after Colin Ridgeway, an Australian rules football convert.[1]

Growing up in Palm Beach, Sydney, Scotts first played rugby union for The Scots College and was a member of the 1981 Australian Schoolboys Rugby team.[2] He later moved to Hawaii,on a full football scholarship after being spotted by an assistant coach during a rugby game. After being drafted in the third round of the 1987 NFL Draft,[3][4] he forged a career in the NFL where he played as a defensive end and tight end in thirty seven games during the 1987,88 & 89 seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals[5] In 1990 Colin was traded to the Houston Oilers and played 17 games before retiring in 1991.[6]

Colin attributes his success to his early coaches Brett Hinch and Michael Markidis and his 1/2 brother Sam tapp.

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Today, Colin is a Healthy Active Ambassador for the Australian government.[2]

References

  1. ↑ McBriar starts NFL journey against man who made him – Sport – www.smh.com.au
  2. 1 2 Michael Milton and Colin Scotts
  3. ↑ Hawaii NFL Draft Picks Archived 15 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ 1987 NFL Draft Transactions Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Colin Scotts Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards – databaseFootball.com Archived 24 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ http://www.buccaneers.com/news/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=4572
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqKP08gMJo
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