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Position: | Tight end | ||||||||
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Born: | Eugene, Oregon, U.S. | July 19, 1943||||||||
Died: | October 15, 1986 Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 43)||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 208 lb (94 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | San Lorenzo (Ashland, California) | ||||||||
College: | Arizona State | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1965 / Round: 9 / Pick: 118 | ||||||||
AFL draft: | 1965 / Round: 18 / Pick: 141 (by the Kansas City Chiefs)[1] | ||||||||
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Gerald Thomas Smith (July 19, 1943 – October 15, 1986) was an American professional football player who was a tight end for the National Football League (NFL)'s Washington Redskins for 13 seasons, from 1965 through 1977.[2] By the time he retired, he held the NFL record for most career touchdowns by a tight end.[3] Smith publicly announced he had AIDS in August 1986, being the first professional athlete to do so. He died two months later. A 2014 documentary from the NFL Network's A Football Life series profiles his career, as well as his "double life as a closeted gay man and a star athlete."[3]
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