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Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||||||
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Date of birth: | October 6, 1972 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth: | San Diego, California | ||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 218 lb (99 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | San Diego (CA) Point Loma | ||||||||||||
College: | UCLA | ||||||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1995 / Round: 1 / Pick: 10 | ||||||||||||
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Player stats at PFR |
Games played: | 118 |
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Games started: | 69 |
Receptions: | 342 |
Receiving yards: | 4,293 |
Touchdowns: | 30 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Jeral Jamal Stokes (born October 6, 1972) is a retired American football wide receiver. Stokes played in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played college football for UCLA, and was recognized as an All-American. A first-round selection in the 1995 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the San Francisco 49ers, Jacksonville Jaguars and New England Patriots of the NFL.
Stokes was born in San Diego, California. He attended Point Loma High School in San Diego, where he was part of a talented high school football team that included quarterback Dan White and lineman La'Roi Glover. The team was coached throughout Stokes' four years by local legend Bennie Edens.
While attending University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Stokes played for the UCLA Bruins football team from 1991 to 1994. He earned Pac-10 first-team honors as a sophomore. His breakout season came in his junior year when he was named the Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year. Stokes' junior season was rewarded with a top ten finish in the balloting for that year's Heisman Trophy, being the only junior recognized. Stokes' junior season ended with first-team All-American recognition by The Sporting News, AP, UPI, and Kodak. Stokes' senior year began as the nation's leading Heisman contender but was quickly sidetracked by a severe upper thigh contusion suffered in the season's first game. Stokes still holds UCLA school records for receiving touchdowns in a season (17 in 1993), receiving touchdowns in a career (28), receiving yards in a game (263 vs. USC in 1992) and receptions in a game (14 vs. Wisconsin, 1994 Rose Bowl), among others.