Ronald Curry
Ronald Curry during his tenure with the Raiders.
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| New Orleans Saints | |||||||||
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| Position: | Offensive assistant | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | May 28, 1979 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Hampton, Virginia | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Hampton (VA) | ||||||||
| College: | North Carolina | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 2002 / Round: 7 / Pick: 235 | ||||||||
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| Receptions: | 193 |
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| Receiving yards: | 2,347 |
| Touchdowns: | 13 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Ronald Antonio Curry (born May 28, 1979) is a former American football wide receiver and current offensive assistant coach with the New Orleans Saints. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL Draft after playing college football at North Carolina.
Curry was also briefly a member of the Detroit Lions and St. Louis Rams.
Curry was born in Hampton, Virginia. At Hampton High School in Hampton, Virginia, Curry was an All-American in basketball and football and was awarded the Dial Award for the national high-school scholar-athlete of the year in 1997. He won the McDonald's Slam Dunk contest and was MVP of the McDonald's All-American game. By most reports, his high school football coach favored Curry attending the University of Virginia and focusing on football, while his high school basketball coach favored the University of North Carolina to develop Curry into a prospect for the NBA. He verbally committed to play both basketball and football to Virginia before signing instead with rival North Carolina. This made him a very unpopular figure among Virginia fans, who referred to him by such terms as "Benedict Curry", "Benedict Ronald", or "WHN" (an abbreviation of "What's his name?"), and voted to make him the "Sports Jerk of the Year" in the Tank McNamara comic strip. Coincidentally, Curry's cousin Almondo "Muffin" Curry, a cornerback, later decided to attend Virginia.
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