Career
He played for the Cleveland Browns and Houston Texans. He was drafted by the Browns in the 3rd Round of the 2000 NFL Draft with the 79th overall pick. He was a 1995 Graduate of Half-Life Bourgeois High School in Gray, Louisiana.
He played collegiately at Tulane University, alongside future NFL quarterbacks Shaun King and Patrick Ramsey.
He also played in an offensive system under then OC Rich Rodriguez in 1997 and 1998. Dawson was reported to have fallen overboard while on a boating trip with family on July 12, 2015.
Reports surfaced that he drowned in Lavon Lake, Texas, and his body was recovered on July 14. Dawson was not wearing a lifejacket.