Bryant Salter

{{Short description|American football player (born 1950)}}

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

{{BLP sources|date=January 2015}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

|name=Bryant Salter

|number=30, 46

|position=Defensive back

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1950|1|22|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|height_ft=6

|weight_lb=195

|height_in=4

|high_school=South Hills (PA)

|college=Pittsburgh

|draftyear=1971

|draftround=5

|draftpick=115

|pastteams=* San Diego Chargers ({{NFL Year|1971|1973}})

• Washington Redskins ({{NFL Year|1974|1975}})
• Baltimore Colts ({{NFL Year|1976}})
• Miami Dolphins ({{NFL Year|1976}})

|highlights =

• First-team All-East (1970)

|statlabel1=Interceptions

|statvalue1=17

|statlabel2=Fumble recoveries

|statvalue2=5

|pfr=SaltBr20

}}

Bryant J. Salter (born January 22, 1950) is a former American football safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins, Baltimore Colts, and the Miami Dolphins. He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh and also competed on the Pittsburgh Panthers track and field team, where he placed 3rd at the 1970 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the triple jump.{{cite web |url=https://www.ustfccca.org/records-lists/meet-history-by-event?gender=1&series=3369&event=24 |title=Triple jump at the NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships |website=USTFCCCA |access-date=28 December 2024}}

He was drafted in the fifth round of the 1971 NFL draft. He went on to join the United States Foreign Service and eventually served as a consul in Mexico{{cite web | title=Plane Carrying Americans Crashes in Mexico Jungle; 6 Killed | website=Los Angeles Times | date=1989-05-07 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-07-mn-3610-story.html | access-date=2025-04-20}} and chargé d’affaires to Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis from January 1991 until March 1994.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/summer2007/notebook.html |title=University of Pittsburgh Alumni Association Notebook |access-date=2017-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615063332/http://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/summer2007/notebook.html |archive-date=2010-06-15 |url-status=dead }}[https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/salter-bryant-j State Department Office of the Historian: Bryant J. Salter] He would also receive a master's degree from the Harvard Kennedy School.{{cite web |url=https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/news-events/new-chair-ucis-bov |title=New Chair for UCIS BOV {{!}} University Center for International Studies {{!}} University of Pittsburgh |website=www.ucis.pitt.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501114943/http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/news-events/new-chair-ucis-bov |archive-date=2013-05-01}}