Ray Snell

Ray Snell
No. 72, 61
Position: Guard
Personal information
Date of birth: (1958-02-24) February 24, 1958
Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland
Height: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight: 262 lb (119 kg)
Career information
College: Wisconsin
NFL Draft: 1980 / Round: 1 / Pick: 22
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Games Played: 65
Games Started: 42

Ray Snell (born February 24, 1958) is a former guard in the National Football League for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Pittsburgh Steelers and the Detroit Lions. Tampa Bay, using their 4th ever first round draft pick, acquired Snell with the 22nd pick in the first round of the 1980 NFL Draft. After four seasons in Tampa Bay in which he started 46 of 64 games he was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Once in Pittsburgh he immediately started 13 games. In 1986 he suffered a blow out fracture to the right eye, in which a bone was lodged behind it. He was then traded to the Detroit Lions where we retired. During 1981, he and George Yarno alternated plays bringing in the offensive play call for Doug Williams.1

1http://bucpower.com

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