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Position: | Linebacker | ||||||
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Born: | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | October 28, 1961||||||
Died: | July 13, 2014 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | (aged 52)||||||
Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 232 lb (105 kg) | ||||||
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High school: | Tulsa (OK) Union | ||||||
College: | Texas | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1984 / round: 5 / pick: 129 | ||||||
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Jeffrey James Leiding (October 28, 1961 – July 13, 2014) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker in the United States Football League (USFL) and National Football League (NFL).
Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Leiding was a standout player at Hickman Mills High School as a sophomore and junior. When his father accepted a job at a bank in Tulsa, Oklahoma prior to his senior year, Leiding finished his prep career at Union High School.[1] He chose to play college football for the Texas Longhorns,[2] and was a consensus All-American as a senior.[3]
Leiding was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the fifth round of the 1984 NFL draft,[4] but did not make the team.[1] He spent the 1985 season with the San Antonio Gunslingers of the USFL.[5] He was with the Indianapolis Colts in 1986, appearing in 12 games. In 1997 he rejoined the Colts as a replacement player during the 1987 NFLPA strike. He was retained after the strike ended, and appeared in nine games total for the year.[6]
Leiding died of a heart attack on July 13, 2014.[7]