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Position: | Offensive tackle | ||||||||
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Date of birth: | April 17, 1972 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Modesto, California | ||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 324 lb (147 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Boulder (CO) Fairview | ||||||||
College: | Southern California | ||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1995 / Round: 1 / Pick: 2 | ||||||||
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Games played: | 91 |
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Games started: | 90 |
Fumbles recovered: | 5 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Don Anthony "Tony" Boselli, Jr. (born April 17, 1972) is a former American football offensive tackle of the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars second overall in the 1995 NFL Draft, becoming the team's first-ever draft pick. He played college football at USC, where he was honored as an All-American.
Boselli played with the Jaguars until 2002, proving to be one of the franchise's most successful and popular players. He was then drafted by the Houston Texans as the first overall pick in the 2002 expansion draft, but was unable to play with them due to injuries.
Boselli was born in Modesto, California. He attended Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado, and was a member of the Fairview Knights high school football team.
He accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Southern California, where he played for the USC Trojans football team from 1991 to 1994. He was a first-team All-Pac-10 selection and a first-team All-American in 1992, 1993 and 1994. In 1994, he also won the Morris Trophy. While he was an undergraduate, he was initiated as a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Boselli was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2014.