Ron Porter

{{Short description|American football player (1945–2019)}}

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| position = Linebacker

| number = 55, 50, 52

| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|7|27}}

| birth_place = Woburn, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = December 4, 2019 (age 74)

| death_place = Gainesville, Florida, U.S.

| draftyear = 1967

| draftround = 5

| draftpick = 126

| undraftedyear =

| high_school = Yuba City (CA)

| college = Idaho

| pastteams =

• Baltimore Colts (1967–1969)
• Philadelphia Eagles (1969–1972)
• Minnesota Vikings (1973)

| highlights =

• NFL champion (1968)

| statlabel1 = Games played - started

| statvalue1 = 93-0

| statlabel2 = Interceptions

| statvalue2 = 3

| statlabel3 = Fumble recoveries

| statvalue3 = 11

| pfr = PortRo21

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Ronald Dean Porter (July 27, 1945 - December 4, 2019) was a former American football player who played linebacker for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts,{{cite book|last=Isaacs|first=Stan|title=Ten Moments that Shook the Sports World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibstAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT177|access-date=2 October 2014|year=2013|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated|isbn=9781628730159|page=177}} Philadelphia Eagles, and Minnesota Vikings.

Porter graduated from Yuba City High School in 1963 and played college football at the University of Idaho in Moscow.{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1967/234 |publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook |title=Football - 1966 season |year=1967 |page=231}} He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and majored in marketing.{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1967/78|publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook |title=Seniors |year=1967 |page=75}}

Porter was a fifth round selection of the Colts in the 1967 NFL/AFL Draft, the 126th overall pick. He was a member of the 1968 Colts team that won the NFL Championship, but were upset in Super Bowl III.