Dallas Baker
Baker at 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers training camp
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| Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | November 10, 1982 | ||||||||||
| Place of birth: | New Smyrna Beach, Florida | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||||
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New Smyrna Beach (FL) Northfield Mt. Hermon (MA) |
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| College: | Florida | ||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 2007 / Round: 7 / Pick: 227 | ||||||||||
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| Receptions: | 1 |
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| Receiving yards: | 6 |
| Touchdowns: | 0 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
| Receptions: | 23 |
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| Receiving yards: | 300 |
| Average: | 13.0 |
| Long: | 72 |
| Touchdowns: | 0 |
| Receptions: | 102 |
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| Yards: | 1,303 |
| Average: | 12.77 |
| Touchdowns: | 25 |
Dallas Leon Baker (born November 10, 1982) is an American former professional football player. Baker played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he has played professionally for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) and the Jacksonville Sharks of the Arena Football League (AFL). As a member of the Steelers, he won Super Bowl XLIII against the Arizona Cardinals.
Baker was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and attended New Smyrna Beach High School, where he was a star wide receiver for the New Smyrna Beach Barracudas high school football team. In 2001, he set the single season Barracudas' record with seventeen touchdowns, 67 catches and 1,142 yards He attended Northfield Mount Hermon for a Post Graduate year. Dallas lead Mount Hermon to the New England championship in football and was a standout player on Mount Hermon's basketball team. Baker graduated from NMH in 2002.
Baker accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and played for coach Ron Zook and coach Urban Meyer's Florida Gators football teams from 2003 to 2006. He originally signed to play for the Gators in February 2001 as a member of what would become coach Steve Spurrier's final recruiting class at Florida, but due to NCAA academic eligibility issues, Baker instead enrolled at Northfield Mount Hermon School, an elite preparatory school in Massachusetts, for one year. While at Mt. Hermon, Baker led his team to the New England Championship game. While also attending NMH. After Spurrier left Florida for the NFL and Zook was hired to replace him, Baker stuck with Florida and enrolled as a partial-qualifier in 2002.
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