Ahmad Rashād is an American sportscaster and former professional football player. He was the fourth overall selection of the 1972 NFL Draft, taken by the St. Louis Cardinals. He played wide receiver and running back for the University of Oregon. After retiring from football, he worked as a studio analyst, game reporter, and anchor.
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Ahmad Rashād is an American sportscaster and former professional football player. He was the fourth overall selection of the 1972 NFL Draft, taken by the St. Louis Cardinals. He played wide receiver and running back for the University of Oregon. After retiring from football, he worked as a studio analyst, game reporter, and anchor for several sports. He has appeared as a fictionalized version of himself as a television sports personality in several films and television shows, and hosted several non-sports related game shows and reality television shows. He adopted his last name from his Egyptian-American mentor, biochemist Rashad Khalifa, with whom he studied Arabic.
He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the UPI all-rookie team in 1972. He also has the distinction of the longest play from scrimmage, 98 yards, in a 1972 game against the Rams, in both St. Louis and Minnesota. He starred in an episode of ABC’s Monsters of Monsters, along with co-hosts Dan Doherty, Dan Caesars, and John Gilliam, on the network’s network network ABC. His son, Ahmad Rashad II, was born in Portland, Oregon, and is the son of Robert Earl Moore, who was a high school football coach. He converted from Pentecostalism to Islam in 1972, and changed his name to Ahmad Rashā d, which means “admirable one led to truth” in Arabic.
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