Elois Grooms
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Position: | Defensive end | ||||||||
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Born: | Tompkinsville, Kentucky, U.S. | May 20, 1953||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 249 lb (113 kg) | ||||||||
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College: | Tennessee Tech | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1975 / round: 3 / pick: 63 | ||||||||
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Elois T. Grooms (born May 20, 1953) is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the third round of the 1975 NFL draft, and he played with the Saints until 1981. Then he played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1982 to 1985 and for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1987. He played college football at Tennessee Tech.[1] Grooms was inducted into the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2020.
References
[edit]- ^ "Elois Grooms Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
Categories:
- 1953 births
- Living people
- People from Tompkinsville, Kentucky
- American football defensive linemen
- New Orleans Saints players
- Philadelphia Eagles players
- St. Louis Cardinals (football) players
- Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football players
- Players of American football from Kentucky
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football defensive lineman, 1950s birth stubs