Rufus Brown

{{short description|American arena football player (born 1980)}}

{{for|the Vermont attorney, farmer and politician|Rufus E. Brown}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}}

{{Infobox gridiron football person

|image=

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1980|07|18}}

|birth_place=San Antonio, Texas, U.S.

|Position=Wide receiver
Defensive back

|death_date=

|number=37

|college=Florida State

|playing_years1={{NFL Year|2004}}

|playing_team1=Washington Redskins

|playing_years2={{HSD season|2005}}

|playing_team2=Hamburg Sea Devils

|playing_years3={{AFL Year|2005}}–{{AFL Year|2006}}

|playing_team3=San Jose SaberCats

|playing_years4={{AFL Year|2007}}

|playing_team4=Las Vegas Gladiators

|playing_years5={{AFL Year|2007}}

|playing_team5=New York Dragons

|playing_years6={{AFL Year|2008}}–present

|playing_team6=Arizona Rattlers

|career_highlights =

• BCS national champion (1999)

|NFL=BRO669783

|AFL=1362815

}}

Rufus Brown (born July 18, 1980) is a professional American football wide receiver/defensive back for the Arizona Rattlers[http://www.azrattlers.com/news/transactions/ azrattlers.com: Player Transactions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323171738/http://www.azrattlers.com/news/transactions/ |date=March 23, 2010 }} in the Arena Football League (AFL).

Brown graduated from Austin High School in El Paso, Texas. He attended Florida State University, where he played football all four years. After playing on the championship team in 1999, he was a starter for the latter two of those years, graduating in 2002 with a degree in Information management. He signed with the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2004. After playing on the team's scout team for most of the season, he made his National Football League debut early in 2005. After that season, he was allocated to the Hamburg Sea Devils, for whom he posted fifteen tackles. In 2005, he signed with the San Jose SaberCats, where he spent the 2005 and 2006 seasons on injured reserve.