Cory Schlesinger
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| Position: | Fullback | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | June 23, 1972 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Columbus, Nebraska | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 247 lb (112 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Columbus (NE) | ||||||||
| College: | Nebraska | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1995 / Round: 6 / Pick: 192 | ||||||||
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| Rushing yards: | 473 |
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| Receiving yards: | 1,445 |
| Touchdowns: | 14 |
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Cory Michael Schlesinger (born June 23, 1972) is a former American football fullback of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 1995 NFL Draft. He played college football at Nebraska.
Schlesinger was a two-time all-state selection at linebacker at Columbus High School, leading the team in tackles as a junior and senior. He also played fullback as a senior in 1990. For the season, he rushed for 1,514 yards and 23 touchdowns (including nine 100-yard games). He was named the Nebraska Defensive Player of the Year as a prep senior and played with a group of Nebraska football all-stars in the Down Under Bowl in Sydney, Australia following his senior season.
He also won the 189-pound wrestling state championship twice during his prep career.
Schlesinger was a two-year starter for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. As a junior, he was the 1993 Husker Co-Lifter-of-the-Year with linebacker Donta Jones. During that season he finished as the team's fifth-leading rusher with 48 carries for 193 yards and one touchdown.
He earned All-Big Eight honorable mention honors in 1994 in a coaches poll and a Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight pick the same year. Schlesinger scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns in the 1995 Orange Bowl in a 24–17 win over the Miami Hurricanes as a senior to secure Nebraska's first national title under then-head coach Tom Osborne.
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