Bill Cahill (American football)

{{Short description|American football player (born 1951)}}

{{for|the Australian rules football player|Bill Cahill (Australian footballer)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{infobox NFL biography

| name = Bill Cahill

| number = 22

| position = Defensive back

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|5|5}}

| birth_place = Bellevue, Washington, U.S.

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 11

| weight_lbs = 180

| high_school = Bellevue (WA)

| college = Washington

| draftyear = 1973

| draftround = 7

| draftpick = 158

| teams =

• Buffalo Bills ({{NFL Year|1973|1974}})

| highlights =

• Second-team All-Pac-8 (1970)

| pfr = CahiBi20

}}

William Blackburn Cahill (born May 5, 1951) is an American former professional football player who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Buffalo Bills. He appeared in 19 games, from 1973 to 1974, mostly on {{nowrap|special teams.{{cite book|title=The ESPN pro Football Encyclopedia|year=2006|publisher=Sterling Publishing|isbn=1-4027-4216-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/espnprofootballe00ster/page/116 116]|edition=first|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/espnprofootballe00ster/page/116}}{{cite news |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Where-They-Are-Now-Bill-Cahill-Huskies-football-1294267.php |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |last=Raley |first=Dan |title=Where They Are Now: Bill Cahill, Huskies football |date=December 9, 2008 |access-date=November 29, 2018}}}}

Born and raised in Bellevue, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle, Cahill graduated from Bellevue High School in 1969 and played college football at the University of Washington in Seattle under head coach {{nowrap|Jim Owens.{{cite news |url=http://old.seattletimes.com/html/huskies/2002037034_uwfb16.html |work=Seattle Times |last=Condotta |first=Bob |title=Bitter and sweet are the memories of this rivalry |date=September 17, 2004 |access-date=November 29, 2018}}}} In his senior season in 1972, he was co-captain with quarterback {{nowrap|Sonny Sixkiller,}} and he was selected in the seventh round of the 1973 NFL draft by the New Orleans Saints.

After football, Cahill worked in production management for Boeing in the Seattle area.