Everything about Kenny Easley totally explained
Kenny Mason Easley Jr. (born
January 15,
1959) is a former
American football strong safety who played seven seasons for the
Seattle Seahawks from
1981 to
1987 in the
National Football League. He is considered as one of the greatest Seahawks players of all-time and one of the greatest safeties in NFL history.
Easley played college football at
UCLA and was drafted in the first round of the
1981 NFL Draft. In
1984 Easley was named the
NFL Defensive Player of the Year by the
Associated Press. He was a 4-time All-Pro selection and was elected to the
Pro Bowl five times in his career. Easley's career ended after the 1987 season after being diagnosed with severe
kidney disease.
In
1998, was inducted into the
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
College career
Easley was born in
Chesapeake, Virginia where he attended
Oscar F. Smith High School there and was named All-State and All-American. He played
college football at
UCLA from
1977 to
1980, where he finished his college career with a school-record nineteen
interceptions and 324 tackles. He was a three-time consensus
All-American selection, a four time All-
Pacific 10 Conference selection and finished ninth in the
Heisman Trophy balloting in
1980.
Pro career
| "He'd be a Hall of Fame player (had he played longer). Maybe he still is. He was that good." |
| Bill Walsh |
Easley was drafted as the fourth overall pick in the first round of the 1981
NFL Draft by the Seahawks where he started in safety as a rookie. He earned AFC Defensive Rookie of the Year honors that season when he recorded three interceptions for 155 yards and one touchdown. In 1984, Easley led the National Football League in interceptions with ten, returning two of them for
touchdowns and was named as
NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Afterwards he signed a five-year contract with the Seahawks which made him one of the highest paid defensive players in the league. He missed part of the
1986 season for ankle surgery.
Prior to the
1988 season, the Seahawks traded Easley to the
Phoenix Cardinals for
quarterback Kelly Stouffer. There he was diagnosed with a kidney disease and failed the physical. The trade was soon canceled and Easley announced his retirement a few months later. He filed a lawsuit against the Seahawks, the team trainer, and the team doctors saying that an overdose of
Advil for the ankle injury a few years earlier caused his kidney to fail, it was later settled out of court. He received a new kidney two years later.
In his seven-year career, Easley recorded 32
interceptions for 538 yards and three touchdowns, while also returning 27 punts for 302 yards. In
2002 Easley was elected to the Seattle Seahawks Ring of Honor.
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