Rod Woodson

Rod Woodson

Woodson in February 2019
No. 26
Position:	Cornerback Safety
Personal information
Born:	(1965-03-10) March 10, 1965 (age 59) Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:	205 lb (93 kg)
Career information
High school:	R. Nelson Snider (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
College:	Purdue (1983–1986)
NFL draft:	1987 / round: 1 / pick: 10
Career history
As a player:
Pittsburgh Steelers (1987–1996) San Francisco 49ers (1997) Baltimore Ravens (1998–2001) Oakland Raiders (2002–2003)
As a coach:
Cincinnati Bengals (2010) Coaching intern - Bill Walsh minority coaching fellowship program Oakland Raiders (2011) Cornerbacks coach Denver Broncos (2014) Coaching intern - Bill Walsh minority coaching fellowship program Oakland Raiders (2015–2016) Assistant defensive backs coach Oakland Raiders (2017) Cornerbacks coach Vegas Vipers (2023) Head coach & general manager
Career highlights and awards
Super Bowl champion (XXXV) NFL Defensive Player of the Year (1993) 6× First-team All-Pro (1989, 1990, 1992–1994, 2002) 3× Second-team All-Pro (1991, 1996, 2000) 11× Pro Bowl (1989–1994, 1996, 1999–2002) 2× NFL interceptions leader (1999, 2002) NFL 1990s All-Decade Team NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team Pittsburgh Steelers All-Time Team Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Honor Pittsburgh Pro Football Hall of Fame Consensus All-American (1986) First-team All-American (1985) 3× First-team All-Big Ten (1984–1986) NFL record Most career interceptions returned for touchdown: 12[1] Most total defensive touchdowns: 13 (tied with Darren Sharper and Charles Woodson)[2]
Career NFL statistics
Tackles: 1,158 Interceptions: 71 Touchdowns: 17 Forced fumbles: 20 Sacks: 13.5 Stats at Pro Football Reference
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame

Roderick Kevin Woodson (born March 10, 1965) is an American former professional football cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons. Widely considered one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time, Woodson holds the NFL record for fumble recoveries (32) by a defensive player, and interceptions returned for touchdown (12). He was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1993.

Woodson was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the 1987 NFL draft and played his first ten years there. He was also a key member of the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl XXXV championship team. He had two shorter stints for the San Francisco 49ers and two seasons with the Oakland Raiders. His 71 career interceptions are the third-most in NFL history. He was an inductee of the Class of 2009 of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio on August 8, 2009. Woodson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2016. He played most of his career as a cornerback then switched to safety during the later part of his career. Woodson was most recently the head coach of the XFL's Vegas Vipers.

From his retirement in 2003 to February 2011, Woodson worked as an analyst for the NFL Network (on NFL Total Access and Thursday Night Football) and for the Big Ten Network. He spent the 2011 season as the Raiders' cornerbacks coach. He then returned to broadcasting, working for Westwood One as an analyst on college football (2012) and the NFL (2013) before resuming his coaching career in 2014. He was announced in July 2022 as the Ravens' new radio color commentator beginning with the upcoming season.^[3]