Lomas Brown
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| Position: | Offensive tackle | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | March 30, 1963 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Miami, Florida | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 282 lb (128 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Miami Springs (FL) | ||||||||
| College: | Florida | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1985 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6 | ||||||||
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| Games played: | 263 |
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| Games started: | 251 |
| Fumbles recovered: | 3 |
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Lomas Brown, Jr. (born March 30, 1963) is an American former college and professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for eighteen seasons in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. Brown played college football for the University of Florida, and received consensus All-American honors. A first-round pick in the 1985 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the Detroit Lions and four other NFL teams. He is currently a sports broadcaster and analyst for ESPN and other television and radio networks.
Brown was born in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami Springs High School in Miami Springs, Florida, where he was a stand-out offensive lineman for the Miami Springs Golden Hawks high school football team. In 2007, the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) recognized Brown as one of the thirty-three all-time greatest Florida high school football players of the last 100 years by naming him to its "All-Century Team."
Brown accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Charley Pell and coach Galen Hall's Florida Gators football teams from 1981 to 1984. He started thirty-four games in his college career at Florida, all at tackle. Brown was a team captain, a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection and a consensus first-team All-American, and the winner of the Jacobs Blocking Trophy recognizing the best blocker in the SEC during his senior year in 1984. He anchored the Gators' outstanding offensive line, memorably dubbed "The Great Wall of Florida," and which included Brown, Phil Bromley, Billy Hinson, Crawford Ker and Jeff Zimmerman in 1984. Behind the blocking of Brown and his Great Wall teammates, the Gators' quarterback Kerwin Bell, fullback John L. Williams and halfback Neal Anderson led the Gators to a 9–1–1 overall win-loss record and won their first SEC championship with a conference record of 5–0–1. (Unfortunately, the title was later vacated by the SEC university presidents because of NCAA rules violations committed by Charley Pell and the Gators coaching staff between 1979 and 1983.) Brown was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1995. As part of its 2006 article series about the top 100 players of the first 100 years of Florida football, The Gainesville Sun recognized him as the No. 8 all-time Gator player.
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