Nate Burleson

Burleson with the Browns in 2014

No. 14, 81, 13

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Personal information

Date of birth:

August 19, 1981 (age 35)

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Height:

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Weight:

197 lb (89 kg)

Career information

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College:

NFL Draft:

2003 / Round: 3 / Pick: 71

Career history

* Offseason and/or practice squad member only

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Nathaniel Eugene Burleson (born August 19, 1981) is a Canadian former football wide receiver. He played college football for the Nevada Wolf Pack and was drafted into the National Football League (NFL) by the Minnesota Vikings in the third round of the 2003 NFL DRAFT. Burleson is now working with CBS SPORTS on The NFL Today show.

Burleson was also a member of the Seattle Seahawks and Detroit Lions. He is the son of former CFL and USFL player Alvin Burleson, and the younger brother of former National Basketball Association player Kevin Burleson.

Burleson was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. At the time his father, Alvin Burleson, was playing defensive back for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was born into a prolific and tight-knit sporting family. His oldest brother, Alvin Jr., played college football for the University of Washington Huskies and the Western Illinois University Leathernecks. Another older brother, Kevin played professional basketball and was formerly a point guard for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His younger brother Lyndale played college basketball for the University of Nevada Wolf Pack. Kevin and Nate Burleson are one of only two sibling duos in which one brother played in the NBA while the other played in the NFL. As a mark of his father's influence, Nate Burleson's jersey number on the Seattle Seahawks, 81, was his father's high school number.