Rod McNeill

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

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

{{no footnotes|date=September 2014}}

{{Use American English|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| image = Rod McNeill scoring a touchdown.jpg

| caption = McNeill scoring a touchdown for USC

| number = 27, 22

| position = Running back

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|3|26}}

| birth_place = Durham, North Carolina, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| weight_lb = 219

| height_in = 2

| draftyear = 1974

| draftround = 4

| draftpick = 88

| high_school = Baldwin Park (CA)

| college = USC

| teams =

• New Orleans Saints (1974–1975)
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1976)

| highlights =

• National champion (1972)

| statlabel1 = Rushing attempts

| statvalue1 = 110

| statlabel2 = Rushing yards

| statvalue2 = 431

| statlabel3 = Rushing TDs

| statvalue3 = 3

| pfr = McNeRo00

}}

Rodney Carlyle McNeill (born March 26, 1951) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans. Selected by the New Orleans Saints in the fourth round of the 1974 NFL draft, he spent two seasons with them before playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1976. In the inaugural 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, he was the team's return specialist and running back.