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Although highly successful in college for the UCLA Bruins, he lasted only one season in the NFL. [39] One of the most popular Asian-born players in NFL history is Hines Ward. Born in Seoul to a Korean mother and African-American serviceman, Ward played 14 seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1998 to 2011 and previously coached in the NFL ...
Matsu played one season professionally with the Dayton Triangle, before embarking on a coaching career. In 1962, half-Filipino Roman Gabriel was the first Asian American to be drafted as an NFL quarterback. Dat Nguyen was an NFL middle linebacker who was an all-pro selection in 2003 for the Dallas Cowboys.
Pages in category "Asian American players of American football" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In the NFL's next season, ... two-thirds of all NFL players (66.7%) are minorities, 53.5% of whom are Black. Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders are only 1.8% of players, a slight ...
And yet, in 2019-20, players of Asian descent made up only 0.7% of NCAA Division I women’s basketball players; 0.4% of Division I men’s basketball players; and 0.3% of Division I football players.
Koo was born on August 3, 1994, in Seoul, South Korea. [5] [6] He played soccer growing up and won a regional kicking competition in South Korea. [7]He moved to the United States when he was 12 years old to live with his mother, who had gone to New Jersey two years earlier to work as a nurse while Koo's father remained in Seoul as a professor at Induk University.
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John Lee (Korean: 이민종; RR: I Min-jong; born May 19, 1964) is a Korean former player of American football who was a placekicker for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, twice earning All-American honors, including a unanimous selection in 1985.