Skip Hicks

{{Short description|American football player (born 1974)}}

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

{{BLP sources|date=August 2010}}

{{Use American English|date=November 2023}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Skip Hicks

| image = Skip Hicks.jpg

| caption = Hicks with the Tennessee Titans in 2001

| number = 20, 42, 34

| position = Halfback

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|10|13}}

| birth_place = Corsicana, Texas, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lb = 230

| high_school = Burkburnett {{nowrap|(Burkburnett, Texas)}}

| college = UCLA

| draftyear = 1998

| draftround = 3

| draftpick = 69

| pastteams ={{cite book |title=Bengals 2004 Media Guide |page=40 |url=https://archive.org/details/bengals-2004-media-guide-cincinnati-c/page/40/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=1 January 2025}}

• Washington Redskins ({{NFL Year|1998|2000}})
• Chicago Bears (2001)*
• Tennessee Titans ({{NFL Year|2001}})
• Carolina Panthers ({{NFL Year|2002}})
• Cincinnati Bengals ({{NFL Year|2004}})*
• Frankfurt Galaxy ({{NFLE Year|2004}})
• Toronto Argonauts ({{CFL Year|2004}})

| highlights =

• Grey Cup champion (2004)
• First-team All-American (1997)
• Pop Warner Trophy (1997)
• First-team All-Pac-10 (1997)
• Second-team All-Pac-10 (1996)

| statlabel1 = Rushing yards

| statvalue1 = 1,109

| statlabel2 = Average

| statvalue2 = 3.9

| statlabel3 = Touchdowns

| statvalue3 = 13

| pfr = HickSk00

}}

Brian LaVell "Skip" Hicks (born October 13, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft.{{Cite web |title=1998 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1998/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}} In his four seasons, Hicks played for the Washington Redskins{{cite news|url=https://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=fgMzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2wgGAAAAIBAJ&pg=6226,5794369&dq=skip-hicks&hl=en|title=Redskins Starters Flex Muscles Against Browns|date=19 August 2000|work=Free-Lance Star|access-date=30 August 2010}} and the Tennessee Titans.{{Cite news |date=14 December 2001 |title=Mcnair Hicks Pace Tennessee |url=https://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=_vYrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Fm0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4352,7336111&dq=skip-hicks+titans&hl=en |access-date=30 August 2010 |work=Kentucky New Era|via=Google News}} He played college football for the UCLA Bruins and still holds school records for touchdowns in a season, with 26 in 1997, and career touchdowns, with 55 (1993–94, 96–97). He graduated from Burkburnett High School in Burkburnett, Texas in 1993.

Hicks also played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League in 2004, appearing in two games. The Argonauts went on to win the 92nd Grey Cup that year, but Hicks was not dressed for that game.