Brad Butler

Brad Butler

Brad Butler in 2011.
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Position:	Offensive lineman
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1983-09-18) September 18, 1983 (age 33)
Place of birth:	Lynchburg, Virginia
Height:	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Weight:	315 lb (143 kg)
Career information
College:	Virginia
NFL Draft:	2006 / Round: 5 / Pick: 143
Career history
Buffalo Bills (2006–2009)
Career highlights and awards
Rock Weir Most Improved Player Award (2005) USA Today All-Joe Team (2009)
Career NFL statistics as of 2009
Games played: 33 Games started: 31 Player stats at NFL.com

Bradley Jay Butler, Jr. (born September 18, 1983 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is a former American football guard and tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bills in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played high school football at E.C. Glass High School and college football at the University of Virginia.

Butler is one of three Cavaliers in school history to start four consecutive bowl games. He started thirty-one consecutive games at right tackle, the longest streak at the University of Virginia since 1998. As a senior Butler started all eleven games he played and was one of the most versatile linemen in the ACC. Butler drew attention in 2005 when he hit Boston College defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka in the back of his knees after the whistle, in what is referred to as "the cheap shot heard 'round the ACC." Butler received the Rock Weir Most Improved Player Award and the Judge and Mrs. Harold H. Purcell Family Football Scholarship.

At the University of Virginia Butler interned at the Center for Politics for two semesters. Butler studied under Larry Sabato, the Director of the Center for Politics. The Center for Politics, a nonpartisan unit of the University of Virginia, seeks to promote the value of politics and the importance of civic engagement. Butler was a member of St. Anthony Hall, which is a national college literary society. He engaged in activities that further the social and intellectual development by encouraging individual expression, promoting the exchange of ideas by providing a forum for discussion and presentations. Butler attended the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia majoring in American Politics.