Wayne DeSutter

{{Short description|American football player (1944–2025)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Wayne DeSutter

| image =

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| number = 71

| position = Tackle

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|5|17}}

| birth_place = Geneseo, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|06|08|1944|5|17}}

| death_place = Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lbs = 255

| high_school = Atkinson {{avoid wrap|(Atkinson, Illinois)}}

| college = Illinois, Western Illinois

| draftyear = 1966

| draftround = 6

| draftpick = 87

| afldraftyear = 1966

| afldraftround = 12

| afldraftpick = 109

| pastteams =

• Buffalo Bills ({{NFL Year|1966}})

| pfr = DeSuWa20

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Wayne DeSutter (May 17, 1944 – June 8, 2025) was an American professional football player who was a tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League (AFL) in 1966.{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DeSuWa20.htm |title=Wayne DeSutter Stats |publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com |date= |access-date=2018-11-12}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/player/waynedesutter/2512849/profile |title=Wayne DeSutter, T |work=Nfl.com |date= |access-date=2018-11-12}}

DeSutter played college football for the Western Illinois Leathernecks. He was inducted into the WIU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1986.{{Cite web |title=Hall of Fame |url=https://goleathernecks.com/honors/hall-of-fame |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Western Illinois University Athletics |language=en}}

DeSutter was selected in the sixth round of the 1966 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions, but chose to play for the Bills, who picked him in the 12th round of the AFL draft.

Following his one season in the AFL, DeSutter served in the Illinois National Guard. Starting in 1970, he began a 34-year career in education as a teacher, athletic director and football coach.{{Cite web |title=Wayne DeSutter Obituary (2025) - Hamilton, OH - Vandemore Funeral Home - Geneseo |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/wayne-desutter-obituary?id=58609072 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Legacy.com}} He was inducted into the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1993.{{Cite web |title=All Hall of Famers |url=http://www.ihsfca.com/page/show/3855730-all-hall-of-famers |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Illinois High School Football Coaches Association |language=en-us}}

DeSutter was the coach at Plainfield High School in 1990 and had just called afternoon practice when five minutes later with the players huddled inside an F5 tornado ripped through the high school on August 28, 1990.{{Cite web |date=2015-08-27 |title=‘Get out of here! Now!’ Remembering the Plainfield tornado |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2015/8/27/18419857/get-out-of-here-now-remembering-the-plainfield-tornado |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Chicago Sun-Times |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Merrifield |first=Robert |last2=Koziol |first2=Ronald |date=1990-08-29 |title=20 ARE KILLED IN ILLINOIS AS TORNADOES RAKE TOWNS |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/08/29/20-are-killed-in-illinois-as-tornadoes-rake-towns/edf18e00-e3d0-4378-85a9-13a8b37f6fd8/ |access-date=2025-06-12 |work=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} DeSutter was inducted into the inaugural class of the school's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2018.

DeSutter died on June 8, 2025.