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| Position: | Safety | ||||||||
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| Born: | September 20, 1968 Ventura, California, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died: | May 28, 2000 (aged 31) Thousand Oaks, California, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 215 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Ventura (Ventura, California) | ||||||||
| College: | UCLA | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1991 / round: 1 / pick: 2 | ||||||||
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Eric Ray Turner (September 20, 1968 – May 28, 2000) was an American professional football player who was a safety for the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens and Oakland Raiders in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, earning All-American honors in 1990. Turner was selected by Cleveland with the second overall pick of the 1991 NFL draft. He died of stomach cancer[1] at the age of 31.[2]
- ^ "Gastric cancer rare, but deadly".
- ^ "Eric Turner dies at 31", Sports Illustrated, May 30, 2000, archived from the original on May 15, 2001.