:Frank Grant (American football)
{{Short description|American football player (born 1950)}}
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{{Infobox NFL biography
| name = Frank Grant
| number = 46, 83
| position = Wide receiver
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|2|15|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
| height_ft = 5
| weight_lb = 181
| height_in = 11
| high_school = East Side (NJ)
| college = Colorado State-Pueblo
| draftyear = 1972
| draftround = 13
| draftpick = 332
| pastteams =
- Washington Redskins ({{NFL Year|1973|1978}})
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1978)
| statlabel1 = Receptions
| statvalue1 = 149
| statlabel2 = Receiving yards
| statvalue2 = 2,486
| statlabel3 = Receiving TDs
| statvalue3 = 18
| pfr = GranFr00
}}
Frank Grant (born February 15, 1950) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played college football at Southern Colorado and was drafted in the 13th round of the 1972 NFL draft.
Early life
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Grant was raised in Newark, New Jersey and attended East Side High School, where he played organized football for the first time despite having been told as a freshman that he was too small, at {{convert|140|lb}}, to play the sport competitively.Shapiro, Leonard. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1977/10/07/redskin-grant-has-overcome-long-odds/a1ecf47e-fb5d-41f9-a925-a89e97d7f64a/ "Redskin Grant Has Overcome Long Odds"], The Washington Post, October 7, 1977. Accessed October "'If you knew where he came from, what his background was, you'd know what I'm talking about,' said Bert Nanhoff, Grant's football coach at East Side High in Newark and now a guidance counselor at a suburban school in northern New Jersey.... That determination showed up early, because Manhoff once told Grant, then a puny 140-pound freshman, that he was simply too small to play high school football."
NFL career statistics
| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! colspan="2"| Legend |
| style="background:#cfecec; width:3em;"|
| Led the league |
| Bold
| Career high |
= Regular season =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | |||||||
| rowspan="2"| Year
!rowspan="2"| Team !colspan="2"| Games !colspan="5"| Receiving | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | |
| 1973 | WAS
| 13 || 0 || 1 || 12 || 12.0 || 12 || 1 | ||||||
| 1974 | WAS
| 14 || 1 || 9 || 196 || 21.8 || 69 || 1 | ||||||
| 1975 | WAS
| 14 || 9 || 41 || 776 || 18.9 || style="background:#cfecec; width:3em;"| 96 || 8 | ||||||
| 1976 | WAS
| 14 || 14 || 50 || 818 || 16.4 || 53 || 5 | ||||||
| 1977 | WAS
| 14 || 14 || 34 || 480 || 14.1 || 59 || 3 | ||||||
| rowspan="2" | 1978 | WAS
| 6 || 6 || 6 || 92 || 15.3 || 23 || 0 | ||||||
| TAM
| 10 || 4 || 8 || 112 || 14.0 || 20 || 0 | |||||||
| colspan="2"| | 85 | 48 | 149 | 2,486 | 16.7 | 96 | 18 |
= Playoffs =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | |||||||
| rowspan="2"| Year
!rowspan="2"| Team !colspan="2"| Games !colspan="5"| Receiving | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | |
| 1973 | WAS
| 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0.0 || 0 || 0 | ||||||
| 1974 | WAS
| 1 || 0 || 1 || 15 || 15.0 || 15 || 0 | ||||||
| 1976 | WAS
| 1 || 1 || 6 || 70 || 11.7 || 21 || 1 | ||||||
| colspan="2"| | 3 | 1 | 7 | 85 | 12.1 | 21 | 1 |
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Redskins1972DraftPicks}}
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Category:Players of American football from Brooklyn
Category:American football wide receivers
Category:CSU Pueblo ThunderWolves football players
Category:Washington Redskins players
Category:Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
Category:East Side High School (Newark, New Jersey) alumni
Category:Players of American football from Newark, New Jersey
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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