Dan Ryczek

American football player (born 1949)

American football player

Dan Ryczek

No. 51, 54

Position:

Center

Personal information

Born:

(1949-08-24) August 24, 1949 (age 74)
Painesville, Ohio, U.S.

Height:

6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)

Weight:

249 lb (113 kg)

Career information

High school:

Mentor (OH)

College:

Virginia

NFL draft:

1971 / Round: 13 / Pick: 322

Career history

Washington Redskins (1973–1975)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1976–1977)
Los Angeles Rams (1978–1979)

Career NFL statistics

Games played:	102
Games started:	26
Fumble recoveries:	4

Player stats at PFR

Daniel Stanley Ryczek (born August 24, 1949)^[1] is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Los Angeles Rams, his last game was playing for the Rams in Super Bowl XIV.

Football career

Ryczek played at Mentor High School in Ohio. He played college football at the University of Virginia, where he was the 1970 co-captain and received the 1970 Jacobs Blocking Trophy as the best blocking offensive lineman. Ryczek was drafted in the thirteenth round of the 1971 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins and Head Coach George Allen.^[2] In the Expansion draft in 1976, he was selected by the new Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 1978, he was traded to the Los Angeles Rams, back to George Allen, the new head coach or the Rams.

His brother Paul also played for Virginia and in the NFL.^[2]

References

^ "Dan Ryczek". NFL.com. National Football League. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Dan Ryczek". Pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved 9 May 2016. his parents were Stanley Ryczek and his mom was Helen Ryczek (Gorman) without their support and hard work to give our family a real opportunity to succeed, nothing I did would have been possible.

Washington Redskins 1971 NFL draft selections

Cotton Speyrer
Conway Hayman
Willie Germany
Mike Fanucci
Jesse Taylor
George Starke
Jeff Severson
Dan Ryczek
Bill Bynum
Tony Christnovich
Glenn Tucker

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1976 inaugural season roster