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Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||
Date of birth: | August 7, 1964 | ||||||||||
Place of birth: | Cleveland, Ohio | ||||||||||
Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 183 lb (83 kg) | ||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||
High school: | John Hay High School | ||||||||||
College: | Tennessee | ||||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1986 / Round: 1 / Pick: 21 | ||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||
Roster status: | Retired | ||||||||||
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Career NFL statistics | |||||||||||
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Player stats at PFR |
Receptions: | 321 |
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Receiving yards: | 5,203 |
Receiving average: | 16.2 |
Receiving touchdowns: | 28 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Timothy Dwayne Hatchett McGee (born August 7, 1964) is a retired professional American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League for the Cincinnati Bengals and the Washington Redskins from 1986 to 1994. Before his NFL career, he played college football at the University of Tennessee, where he set school career records for receptions, receiving yards, and touchdown receptions, and was named an All American his senior year.
McGee attended John Hay High School in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was taught the wide receiver position by Coach Sonny Harris. During his senior year, he caught 58 passes for 1,240 yards and 8 touchdowns, and was named to the Northeast Lakes All-District team. He was a teammate of future NBA player Charles Oakley, who played defensive end on the football team.
McGee was recruited to Tennessee by fellow John Hay alumnus Anthony Hancock, who had been a star receiver at UT, and was a first-round draft pick in 1982. McGee played in an era when Tennessee garnered a reputation as "Wide Receiver U." Seven of McGee's teammates– Willie Gault, Mike Miller, Clyde Duncan, Darryal Wilson, Lenny Taylor, Eric Swanson and Joey Clinkscales– would become NFL Draft picks, with Gault and Duncan going in the first round. In spite of playing in such a stacked receiving corps, McGee caught 123 passes for 2,042 yards and 15 touchdowns during his career, all of which were school records.