Rob Bironas
Bironas with the Titans in November 2008
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| Position: | Placekicker | ||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | January 29, 1978 | ||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Louisville, Kentucky | ||||||||||
| Date of death: | September 20, 2014 (aged 36) | ||||||||||
| Place of death: | Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||||
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| High school: | Louisville (KY) Trinity | ||||||||||
| College: | Georgia Southern | ||||||||||
| Undrafted: | 2001 | ||||||||||
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| Field goals: | 239 |
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| Field goal attempts: | 279 |
| Field goal %: | 85.6 |
| Long field goal: | 60 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
James Robert Douglas "Rob" Bironas (January 29, 1978 – September 20, 2014) was an American football placekicker. He holds the NFL record for field goals in a single game (8), set in 2007 against the Houston Texans. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football for Auburn University and Georgia Southern University. Bironas was an All-Pro and Pro Bowl selection in 2007. Bironas' active professional career began in Arena football. He was a member of the Charleston Swamp Foxes, Carolina Cobras, and the New York Dragons before achieving success with the Tennessee Titans. Bironas was killed in a car crash on September 20, 2014.
Bironas attended Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky, and was a four-year varsity letterman in soccer, a two-year varsity letterman in football and swimming, and added a one-year letterman in track and field. He graduated in 1996.
Bironas attended Auburn University, where he played for the Auburn Tigers football team from 1997 to 1999. He was a semi-finalist for the Lou Groza Award in 1998 after making 12 of 16 field goal attempts (including two successful 49-yard (45 m) tries with the four misses from 40+) and making all 18 PATs for a team-high 54 points. The following season, new head coach Tommy Tuberville replaced Bironas, the preseason All-SEC kicker of the football team, with the punter, Damon Duval. Bironas later transferred to Georgia Southern University, where his brother was on the soccer team, for his final year of collegiate eligibility, and played for the Georgia Southern Eagles football team. Bironas won the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA National Championship while playing with the Eagles, before returning to graduate from Auburn with a bachelor's degree in marketing.
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