Sterling Sharpe

Former NFL All-Pro Receiver

Career Highlights:  A former All-Pro NFL wide receiver, Sterling Sharpe has spent the past four years as an NFL analyst for the NFL Network…Prior to this, he spent nine years at ESPN as an analyst for Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown…Sharpe was a five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers…He suffered a career-ending injury to the top two vertebrae in his neck during a game in December 1994…When he left the game, Sharpe was the only NFL player to reach 500 catches prior to his seventh league season…He led the NFL with 18 touchdown catches in 1994, and broke the league’s single-season record for receptions in 1993 with 112, surpassing his own mark of 108 receptions set in the previous campaign…Sharpe graduated from the University of South Carolina with dual degrees in interdisciplinary studies and retailing…He holds school records for career receptions (169), receiving yards (2,497) and receiving touchdowns (17)…He was selected in the first round of the 1988 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers…A native of Chicago, he is the older brother of former NFL tight end Shannon Sharpe.

Updated: May, 2008
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