Jeff Sylvester Herrod was born on July 29,1966 and is an American former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League for the Indianapolis Colts and Philadelphia Eagles.
13 Facts About Jeff Herrod
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Jeff Herrod was selected by the Colts in the ninth round of the 1988 NFL draft.
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Jeff Herrod had to walk two miles to play in a youth football league that didn't charge a fee, and initially had to make do with hand-me-down shoulder pads that he found in a dumpster behind a community center.
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Jeff Herrod initially planned to enlist in the United States Marine Corps after graduating from Banks High School, but decided instead to play at Ole Miss under head coach Billy Brewer, the only Division I program to offer him a scholarship.
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In four years in Oxford, Jeff Herrod became one of the greatest defensive players in Southeastern Conference history.
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Jeff Herrod was a first-team All-SEC selection in 1986, and was named a second-team All-American by The Associated Press in 1986 and 1987.
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Jeff Herrod was named to the Ole Miss Team of the Century in 1993, and was selected as an SEC Football Legend in 2013.
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Jeff Herrod was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2017 and was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in July 2023.
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Jeff Herrod led the Colts in tackles in seven out of eight seasons from 1989 to 1996.
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Jeff Herrod was unofficially credited with 1,443 tackles as a Colt, the most in franchise history.
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Jeff Herrod believes he suffered hundreds of concussions, during his career, and one of his doctors estimated that those were sandwiched around "hundreds of thousands" of "sub-concussions" in which his brain crashed into his skull.
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Jeff Herrod is certain that he has chronic traumatic encephalopathy, though that disease can only be definitively diagnosed in dead people; he has agreed to donate his brain to Boston University's CTE Center for study.
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Jeff Herrod has dealt with migraines since at least 2007, and has chronic pain so severe that he needs assistance to wear dressy clothes and can't bear sitting down for long periods of time.