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Position: | Punter | ||||||||||||
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Born: | Swainsboro, Georgia, U.S. | December 22, 1949||||||||||||
Died: | November 3, 2022 Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 72)||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 195 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Thomson (Thomson, Georgia) | ||||||||||||
College: | Southern Miss (1970–1972) | ||||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1973 / round: 1 / pick: 23 | ||||||||||||
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William Ray Guy (December 22, 1949 – November 3, 2022) was an American professional football punter who played for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).[1] Guy was a first-team All-American selection in 1972 as a senior for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, and is the only pure punter ever to be drafted in the first round of the NFL draft,[2] when the Raiders selected him with the 23rd overall pick in the 1973 NFL draft.[3] He won three Super Bowls with the Raiders. Guy was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014. An eight-time All-Pro, Guy is widely considered to be the greatest punter of all time.[4]
With his induction to the Hall of Fame on August 2, 2014, he became the first pure punter to be so honored.[5]