Barry Foster (American football)
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| Position: | Running back | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | December 8, 1968 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Hurst, Texas | ||||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 223 lb (101 kg) | ||||||||
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| College: | Arkansas | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1990 / Round: 5 / Pick: 128 | ||||||||
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| Rushing yards: | 3,943 |
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| Rushing average: | 4.3 |
| Rushing TDs: | 26 |
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Barry Foster (born December 8, 1968) is a former American football running back in the National Football League.
Foster attended Duncanville High School in Texas. He went on to attend the University of Arkansas where he played fullback for the Razorbacks aside a pair of tailbacks, James Rouse and E. D. Jackson, in Ken Hatfield's wishbone offense. Foster wore the number 18. After three collegiate seasons he decided to forgo his senior season and enter the 1990 NFL Draft. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 19th pick of the 5th round (128th overall) by Chuck Noll. Foster was 5'10 and weighted 223, and wore #29.
Unfortunately, Barry Foster’s NFL career was cut short because of injuries. Even so, he brought the running game back to Pittsburgh. For his career he carried the football 915 times for 3943 yards for a 4.3-yard average, caught 93 balls for 804 more yards and scored 28 touchdowns and went to 2 Pro-Bowls. His 1,690 rushing yards in 1992 is still the Steelers single season record for a running back. Known in the 90's as "The NFL's Other Barry."
In 1990, Foster was used primarily on special teams during his rookie season. It was during this first season that he made a catastrophic blunder in a game that Steelers played against the 49ers on October 21. He was positioned to receive a kick-off, but treated the play like a punt, forgetting to field the ball. The result was a San Francisco recovery and touchdown except that they can't advance upon recovering their own ball after a kickoff, but it still lead to a Steelers loss. This is one of the handful of times in NFL history that a player neglected to field a kick-off on the return team.
His second NFL season, in 1991, started out great with a 121-yard rushing game with a 56-yard touchdown run against the Buffalo Bills in week 2 but he sprained his ankle a few weeks later and missed five games.
In 1992, Barry Foster got the Bill Cowher era going in Pittsburgh after two seasons on the bench. Foster got the starting nod and looked like the second coming of Franco Harris. He rushed for a Steelers single season record 1,690 yards and also broke Harris's team record for 100-yard games in a season with 12, that also tied Eric Dickerson's NFL record for 100-yard games. He was voted to the Pro Bowl that year and also scored 11 touchdowns. Foster finished 1992 as the AFC top rusher and second to Emmitt Smith by 23 yards for the rushing title.
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