.jpg) Newsome in 2023 | |||||||||
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| Position: | Executive vice president/player personnel | ||||||||
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| Born: | March 16, 1956 Muscle Shoals, Alabama, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 232 lb (105 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Colbert County (Leighton, Alabama) | ||||||||
| College: | Alabama (1974–1977) | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1978 / round: 1 / pick: 23 | ||||||||
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Ozzie Newsome Jr. (born March 16, 1956) is an American professional football executive and former player who is the executive vice president of player personnel of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). Newsome was a tight end for the NFL's Cleveland Browns, and was general manager of the Ravens from 1996 to 2018. Newsome has been inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame (1994) and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1999).