1. Ross Dean Browner was an American professional football defensive end who played for ten seasons in the National Football League, mainly for the Cincinnati Bengals.
12 Facts About Ross Browner
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Ross Browner played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and was selected by the Bengals in the first round of the 1978 NFL draft.
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Ross Browner was one of the most decorated defensive players in the history of college football.
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Ross Browner was a unanimous All-America his junior and senior seasons of 1976 and 1977.
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Ross Browner won the Lombardi Trophy as the nation's best lineman and the Maxwell Award as the nation's best player and again won the UPI Lineman of the Year Award, the only player ever to win it twice.
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Ross Browner was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Ross Browner was the first-round draft pick in the 1978 NFL draft for the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Ross Browner set the Super Bowl record for tackles by a defensive lineman in Super Bowl XVI.
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Ross Browner played one season with the Green Bay Packers before retiring.
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Ross Browner latterly worked in real estate and lived in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Ross Browner was the father of former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Max Starks and former University of Arizona player Rylan Ross Browner.
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Ross Browner died of complications from COVID-19 on January 4,2022, at the age of 67.