Billy Pittman
| Position: | Wide receiver |
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| Date of birth: | September 19, 1984 |
| Place of birth: | Cameron, Texas |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight: | 200 lb (91 kg) |
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| College: | Texas |
| Undrafted: | 2008 |
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Billy Pittman (born September 19, 1984) is a former American football player. He played college football as a wide receiver for the University of Texas Longhorns from 2003 to 2007 and was the leading receiver on the 2005 Texas team that won the BCS National Championship.
He attended C.H. Yoe High School in Cameron, Texas. He started at quarterback for the Yoemen for four years and accounted for 7,090 yards and 66 touchdowns during his prep career. In his senior year, Pittman was third-team 3A THSCA All-State and District 18-3A MVP. He once completed 13-of-19 passes for 223 yards and a touchdown and rushed 24 times for 267 yards and two touchdowns against Waco Connally.
Pittman played college football at the University of Texas from 2003 to 2007. As a freshman in 2003, he sustained a torn quadriceps muscle and was a redshirt. In 2004, he missed the entire season after sustaining a separated shoulder, another torn leg muscle and being diagnosed with Bell's Palsy, a rare condition that results in inability to control facial muscles on the affected side and can also cause facial paralysis. In 2006, Stewart Mandell published a feature story in Sports Illustrated on Pittman's comeback from the rare disorder. Mandell described Pittman's discovery of his condition as follows:
"It started with a simple twitch. Billy Pittman woke up one spring morning two years ago to find his eye was twitching, and it wouldn't stop. Eye drops, a splash of water to the face -- no help. He went back to bed that afternoon, woke up, and now noticed his nostril wasn't moving. By the next morning, he couldn't feel the left side of his face."
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