Lawrence Phillips
Mugshot of Phillips after his 2005 arrest.
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| Position: | Running back | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | May 12, 1975 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Little Rock, Arkansas | ||||||||
| Date of death: | January 13, 2016 (aged 40) | ||||||||
| Place of death: | Kern Valley State Prison, Delano, California | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 224 lb (102 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Baldwin Park (CA) | ||||||||
| College: | Nebraska | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1996 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6 | ||||||||
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| Player stats at PFR | |||||||||
| Rushing yards: | 1,453 |
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| Average: | 3.4 |
| Touchdowns: | 13 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Lawrence Lamond Phillips (May 12, 1975 – January 13, 2016) was a professional American football and Canadian football running back. A two-time college football national champion with the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Phillips played in the National Football League for the St. Louis Rams, Miami Dolphins, and San Francisco 49ers from 1996 through 1999, and for the Montreal Alouettes and Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League in 2002 and 2003.
Phillips' career was overshadowed by his inability to stay out of trouble off the field; he was arrested several times. In 2015, Phillips was charged with the murder of his former cellmate, Damion Soward, and arguably could have faced the death penalty. Phillips committed suicide on January 13, 2016, at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, California, where he was serving a seven-year term for felony assault with a deadly weapon and was set to serve an additional twenty-five years once that sentence elapsed for domestic assault on his girlfriend.
Phillips was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and moved to California, where he grew up in foster homes. He attended West Covina High School in West Covina, California, for his freshman and sophomore years. He was a varsity starter both on offense as a running back and defense as an outside linebacker. He then attended Baldwin Park High School in Baldwin Park, California, for his junior and senior years, winning CIF his junior year which attracted the attention of the University of Nebraska.
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