Kent Hull
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| Position: | Center | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | January 13, 1961 | ||||||||
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| Date of death: | October 18, 2011 (aged 50) | ||||||||
| Place of death: | Greenwood, Mississippi | ||||||||
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| College: | Mississippi State | ||||||||
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| Game played: | 170 |
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| Games started: | 169 |
| Fumble recoveries: | 7 |
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James Kent Hull (January 13, 1961 – October 18, 2011) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League and United States Football League, more precisely a center for the New Jersey Generals of the USFL and Buffalo Bills of the NFL.
Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, Hull attended Greenwood High School and then Mississippi State University. At Mississippi State, Hull earned four football letters as the Bulldogs' center from 1979 to 1982 before going on to star first in the USFL then in the NFL.
Hull was the starting center for the Generals from 1983 to 1985 where he blocked for Herschel Walker all 3 years. Walker broke the pro football record for rushing yards in a single season with 2,411 in 1985 with the Generals - Hull was a key cog in their attack all three seasons together.
As a rookie for the Buffalo Bills in 1986, Hull immediately became their starting center, replacing Will Grant, hunched between 7-year veteran Jim Ritcher at left offensive guard and fellow rookie Will Wolford at right guard for all 16 games, with Hall-of-Famer Jim Kelly as rookie quarterback under first-year head coach Marv Levy. In 1988, the Bills won the AFC east division with a strong offensive line, Hull playing between Ritcher and Tim Vogler at right guard. They beat the Houston Oilers in the divisional round of the 1988–89 NFL playoffs, as Kelly passed for 244 yards and Thurman Thomas rushed for 75 yards in only 7 carries, but lost the AFC championship game to the Cincinnati Bengals. In 1989, the Bills won the AFC east division title again but lost a divisional round match of the 1989–90 NFL playoffs to the Cleveland Browns.
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