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Marvcus Patton
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A 6"2", 239-pounds linebacker from University of California, Los Angeles, Patton played in 13 NFL seasons from 1990 to 2002 for the Bills, the Washington Redskins, and the Kansas City Chiefs. Patton never missed a regular season game in his entire career. After earning a full-time starting role in his fourth season with the Bills, he started all but three games for the remainder of his career.
Patton was just 9-years-old when his father, an undercover detective in Los Angeles, was shot and killed in the line of duty.
His mother, Barbara Patton, a former Women"s National Football League player with the Los Angeles Dandelions, taught Patton about football. “I thought it was really cool to tell my friends that my mom was a linebacker,” Patton once shared.
Earning an academic scholarship, Patton was a walk-on at University of California, Los Los Angeles Typically, students without an athletic scholarship are lucky to have a place on special teams. However, the astute Patton was a starter his senior year, gaining All-America honorable mention, and also was a three-time Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention while earning a political science degree with academic honors.
