Rick Fenney

{{Short description|American football player (born 1964)}}

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

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Rick Fenney

| number = 31

| position = Running back

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|12|7}}

| birth_place = Everett, Washington, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lb = 235

| high_school = Snohomish (WA)

| college = Washington

| draftyear = 1987

| draftround = 8

| draftpick = 211

| pastteams =

• Minnesota Vikings ({{NFL Year|1987|1991}})

| highlights =

• Second-team All-Pac-10 (1985)

| statlabel1 = Rushing yards

| statvalue1 = 1,508

| statlabel2 = Rushing average

| statvalue2 = 4.2

| statlabel3 = Receptions

| statvalue3 = 71

| statlabel4 = Receiving yards

| statvalue4 = 628

| statlabel5 = Total touchdowns

| statvalue5 = 13

| pfr = FennRi00

}}

Ricky Dale Fenney (born December 7, 1964) is an American former professional football running back in the National Football League (NFL). Selected in the eighth round of the 1987 NFL draft, he played five seasons for the Minnesota Vikings {{nowrap|(1987–1991).}}{{Cite web |title=1987 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1987/draft.htm |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}

Born in Everett, Washington, Fenney graduated from Snohomish High School{{Cite web |date=2025-05-05 |title=Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame 2025 Induction Class Announced {{!}} My Everett News |url=https://myeverettnews.com/2025/05/05/snohomish-county-sports-hall-of-fame-2025-induction-class-announced/ |access-date=2025-06-13 |website=MyEverettNews.com}}{{Cite news |date=2023-10-26 |title=Washington Wolfpack: Everett’s arena football team gets a name {{!}} HeraldNet.com |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/sports/everetts-arena-football-team-to-be-named-washington-wolfpack/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250216052838/https://www.heraldnet.com/sports/everetts-arena-football-team-to-be-named-washington-wolfpack/ |archive-date=2025-02-16 |access-date=2025-06-13 |work=HeraldNet.com |language=en-US}} and played college football at the University of Washington in Seattle; he scored the final touchdown in the Huskies' Orange Bowl victory over Oklahoma in {{nowrap|January 1985.{{Cite news |date=January 2, 1985 |title=Huskies vote: 'We're No. 1' |page=1C |work=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=Associated Press|via=Google News |location=(Oregon) |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_tpVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ieEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4256%2C292881}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zd8VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7xIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6624%2C345863 |work=Milwaukee Sentinel |agency=wire services |title=Huskies smash Sooners, 28-17 |date=January 2, 1985 |page=1, part 2}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y1hWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Cu8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6565%2C635556 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |last=Blanchette |first=John |title=Huskies leave 'em Orange with envy |date=January 2, 1985 |page=B1}}}}

Fenney became a full-time financial planner after his retirement from the NFL. While working as a broker for Merrill Lynch, he started an investment fund and solicited investments from family and friends. Fenney covered up his losses and continued to solicit more cash from investors. Having lost $2.2 million of investor money, Fenney in 2004 was indicted on wire fraud charges for misleading investors. He was sentenced to 37 months in prison and was ordered to pay restitution. After serving his sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Sheridan, he was released to a halfway house in Phoenix.{{cite news |last1=Raley |first1=Dan |title=From football star to inmate, former Husky fell far |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/From-football-star-to-inmate-former-Husky-fell-1254853.php |access-date=March 13, 2022 |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |date=November 7, 2007}}