Melvin Johnson (American football)
Appearance
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Position: | Safety | ||||||
Personal information | |||||||
Born: | Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | April 15, 1972||||||
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 204 lb (93 kg) | ||||||
Career information | |||||||
High school: | St. Xavier (Cincinnati, Ohio) | ||||||
College: | Kentucky | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1995 / Round: 2 / Pick: 43 | ||||||
Career history | |||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||
Career NFL statistics | |||||||
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Melvin Johnson (born April 15, 1972) is a former American football safety in the National Football League (NFL). After graduating from St. Xavier High School[1] in 1990[2] and playing college football for the Kentucky Wildcats, he was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 1995 NFL draft.[3] Johnson later played for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1998.
NFL career statistics
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Bold | Career high |
Regular season
[edit]Year | Team | Games | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||||||
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GP | GS | Cmb | Solo | Ast | Sck | TFL | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | FR | Yds | TD | ||
1995 | TAM | 11 | 3 | 26 | 20 | 6 | 0.0 | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1996 | TAM | 16 | 16 | 80 | 61 | 19 | 0.0 | - | 2 | 24 | 0 | 24 | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
1997 | TAM | 16 | 7 | 51 | 41 | 10 | 0.0 | - | 1 | 19 | 0 | 19 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1998 | KAN | 7 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1.0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50 | 27 | 165 | 128 | 37 | 1.0 | - | 4 | 43 | 0 | 24 | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Playoffs
[edit]Year | Team | Games | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||||||
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GP | GS | Cmb | Solo | Ast | Sck | TFL | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | FR | Yds | TD | ||
1997 | TAM | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ Gamble, Tom; Doug Uhlenbrock (August 23, 1990). "Football Notebook" (fee required). The Cincinnati Post. E. W. Scripps Company. p. B9. Retrieved August 24, 2009.
...St. Xavier: DB Melvin Johnson, TE Bronson Trebbi...
[permanent dead link] - ^ "Class Records (1945 - present)". Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Xavier High School. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
Senior ... Melvin Johnson, 1990, Regional Finals
[permanent dead link] - ^ "1995 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
Categories:
- 1972 births
- Living people
- American football safeties
- Kentucky Wildcats football players
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
- Kansas City Chiefs players
- St. Xavier High School (Ohio) alumni
- Players of American football from Cincinnati
- 21st-century African-American sportspeople
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople