Education
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater.
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater.
He also played in the Canadian Football League (Canadian Football League) for the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Shreveport Pirates. Manley played college football at Oklahoma State University. He was known for his sacks and getting to the Quarterback.
NFL
Manley was drafted in the fifth round (119th overall) of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins, where he played for nine seasons.
In 1989, Manley failed his third drug test, with an opportunity to apply for reinstatement after one year. He then played for the Phoenix Cardinals and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
However, after he failed his fourth drug test, he retired on December 12, 1991. Officially, Manley had 97.5 quarterback sacks in his career.
His total rises to 103.5 when the six sacks he had his rookie year of 1981, when sacks were not yet an official statistic, are included.
After his career in the United States ended, he revealed that he was functionally illiterate, despite having studied at Oklahoma State University for four years. Canadian Football League
Manley also played two seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1992 and 1993 after being banned from the NFL. In 1995, Manley was convicted of cocaine possession and was sentenced to four years in prison, of which he served two. Manley underwent 10½ hours of brain surgery June 21, 2006, to treat a Colloid cyst, and is experiencing minor isolated memory loss.
He first learned about the cyst in 1986, after he collapsed in a Georgetown department store.
His prognosis is for a relatively full recovery, although doctors have said that memory loss is a common side effect of the operation. In an article by Taylor Branch entitled "The Shame of College Sports", prior to the United States. Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities in 1989, Manley was famously quoted as saying that he had been functionally illiterate in college.