13 Facts About Ricky Powers

Ricky Powers's career ended due to being lost in the shuffle when the Browns moved to Baltimore and changed coaching staffs.

Ricky Powers was both born and raised in Akron, where he led the Buchtel High School football team to back-to-back OHSAA championships, as well as being named a high school All-American.

Ricky Powers graduated from Buchtel in 1990 after leading them to the 1987 and 1988 Ohio Division II state high school championships.

Ohio rival, Robert Smith, earned USA Today Player of the Year honors and Ricky Powers earned an honorable mention during their junior years.

Ricky Powers entered his senior season on numerous lists including the Chicago Sun-Times national top 100 and 24-man All-Midwest lists, The Times-Picayune Top 25 national prospects, and USA Today top 13 Ohio players.

Smith was named Mr Football, but Ricky Powers was named the top player in the nation by the Dallas Morning News.

Ricky Powers became the first two-time Akron Beacon Journal Player of the Year.

Ricky Powers was a Parade All-American and earned first-team All-USA honors from USA Today.

Ricky Powers was recruited by both the Michigan Wolverines and the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Ricky Powers remained on the practice squad until being promoted to the regular roster for the final three games of the 1995 National Football League season.

Ricky Powers dabbled with World League of American Football, the Ohio Cannon of the short-lived Regional Football League in 1999, and the San Antonio Matadors of the Spring Football League afterwards, but soon retired.

In 2007, Ricky Powers assumed the football coaching duties at his high school alma mater, Akron Buchtel High School, where he has been the head baseball coach since 2004.

Powers' mother, Rosetta, claimed Ricky had been leaning toward Michigan State prior to the determination regarding his brother.