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Position: | Cornerback | ||||||||||
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Date of birth: | July 7, 1984 | ||||||||||
Place of birth: | Monrovia, Liberia | ||||||||||
Height: | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 189 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||
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College: | Ohio State | ||||||||||
NFL Draft: | 2006 / Round: 3 / Pick: 70 | ||||||||||
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Tackles: | 85 |
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Sacks: | 2.0 |
INT: | 2 |
Forced fumbles: | 1 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Ashton Youboty (born July 7, 1984 in Monrovia, Liberia), is a former American football cornerback. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State University. He has also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
His family settled in Philadelphia, where he attended Girard College, a college prep boarding school for single parent kids and low income families. Unfortunately, Girard did not have a football team due to lack of insurance. However, they later relocated to Texas when he was in middle school. Ashton lived in Houston, Texas, near the Klein community. There he played cornerback and punt returner at Klein High School.
He passed up his senior year of eligibility at Ohio State University to enter the 2006 NFL Draft.
Youboty was drafted in the third round (70th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills, joining Donte Whitner as the second Ohio State Buckeyes football player selected by the Bills in the draft. He played with the Bills for the first five seasons of his career from 2006 to 2010. Youboty's best season in the NFL was 2007 when he appeared in eleven games for the Bills and was credited with 23 tackles (22 solo), a sack and an interception.