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American football game player (1983–2007)

Sean Taylor
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Taylor at Redskins training camp in 2005
No. 36, 21
Position: Safety
Personal information
Born: (1983-04-01)April i, 1983
Florida City, Florida
Died: November 27, 2007(2007-11-27) (aged 24)
Miami, Florida
Top: 6 ft two in (1.88 m)
Weight: 212 lb (96 kg)
Career information
High schoolhouse: Gulliver Prep
(Pinecrest, Florida)
College: Miami (FL)
NFL Typhoon: 2004 / Round: one / Pick: 5
Career history
  • Washington Redskins (2004–2007)
Career highlights and awards
  • Second-team All-Pro (2007)
  • 2× Pro Basin (2006, 2007)
  • 80 Greatest Redskins
  • Washington Commanders Ring of Fame
  • Washington Commanders No. 21 retired
  • PFWA All-Rookie Team (2004)
  • BCS national champion (2001)
  • Big Due east Defensive Player of the Year (2003)
  • Unanimous All-American (2003)
  • Starting time-squad All-Large E (2003)
  • Second-squad All-Big Due east (2002)
Career NFL statistics
Tackles: 262
Interceptions: 12
Forced fumbles: eight
Quarterback sacks: two.0
Player stats at NFL.com ·PFR

Sean Michael Maurice Taylor (Apr one, 1983 – November 27, 2007) was an American football safety for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected fifth overall in the 2004 NFL Draft past the Redskins,[1] where he played four seasons until his murder in 2007.

Every bit a loftier school player, Taylor led Gulliver Prep to a Florida state championship and ready the state record for single-season touchdowns. Taylor played college football game at Miami, where he was a member of the 2001 BCS National Championship team and earned unanimous All-American honors. With the Redskins, he gained a reputation every bit a hard-hitting player. Due to his tackling ability, his Washington teammates nicknamed him "Meast" from the expression "half man, one-half animate being."[2] [3] He made one Pro Basin appearance in 2006.

During the 2007 season, Taylor was shot past intruders at his Miami area home and died the adjacent day on November 27.[four] His expiry led to an outpouring of national back up and sympathy, specially in the Washington, D.C., area, where he had been a fan favorite equally a Redskin,[5] and the Miami area, where he had starred in loftier school and college. Posthumously, he earned a second Pro Basin selection and 2d-squad All-Pro honors. Taylor was inducted to Washington's Band of Fame in 2008.

Early life [edit]

Sean Taylor was born in Florida on April i, 1983[6] to Pedro Taylor, a policeman, and Donna Junor. He spent his early on years growing up with his not bad-grandmother Aulga Clarke in Homestead, Florida and later moved to his father's habitation at the age of xi. Taylor was baptized at the Bethel Seventh-day Adventist Church in Florida Metropolis by Pastor David Peay. He grew up in a low-income neighborhood in Miami, on a street lined with candy-colored houses.[7] [8]

Taylor played high schoolhouse football in Pinecrest, a suburb of Miami. He originally began his high schoolhouse football career at Miami Killian Loftier Schoolhouse, a Form 2A public school, but transferred to Gulliver Preparatory Schoolhouse, a Class prep school, where he was a three-sport star in football, track and basketball. He played both crime and defense. Despite missing the first game of the season (the team'south simply loss), he helped Gulliver win the Florida Class 2A State Title in 2000 with a 14–one record. Taylor was a star on both sides of the ball during that season, playing running dorsum, defensive back and linebacker.[9] He rushed for 1,400 yards and a country-record 44 touchdowns and on 2 occasions, rushed for more than 200 yards during Gulliver's state playoff run. He also compiled more 100 tackles during the season and scored three touchdowns (two receiving, ane rushing) in the country title game victory over Marianna High School. In track & field, Taylor won the state 2A 100-meter dash in 2000 and was too ane of the state's top 400-meter dash sprinters.

Taylor was considered the No. 1 prospect in Miami-Dade Canton by the Miami Herald. He was likewise rated the nation's No. ane skill athlete and an All-American past Super Prep. Taylor was also an Orlando Sentry Super Southern Team selection, the No. one athlete on the Florida Times-Marriage Super 75 listing and rated the No. 1 histrion in Florida by The Gainesville Sun.

In 2007, he was also named to the Florida High School Clan All-Century Team, which selected the Summit 33 players in the 100-twelvemonth history of high school football in the land. After his decease, Taylor was honored at Gulliver by a plaque that was placed in the school's cafeteria.[ten] The football field at Gulliver Prep was renamed Sean Taylor Memorial Field on September 5, 2009.

College career [edit]

Taylor was recruited to play for coach Larry Coker's Miami Hurricanes football squad at the Academy of Miami. He was as well a member of the Hurricanes rail & field squad, competing in events such as the 100-meter and 200-meters.

2001 season [edit]

As a freshman (one of four truthful freshmen to play for the team), Taylor carved a niche for himself in Miami's secondary in nickel and dime defensive schemes. During the season, Taylor was named Big Due east Special Teams Thespian of the Week for his performance against the Pittsburgh Panthers.[ix] The Hurricanes won the national championship in 2001.

2002 season [edit]

In 2002, his first flavor as a starter, Taylor was a second-team All-Big East choice past the league'southward caput coaches. He finished tertiary on the squad in tackles with 85 (53 solo), broke upwardly 15 passes, intercepted 4 passes, forced one fumble, blocked 1 kick and returned a punt for a touchdown. He led all Miami defensive backs in tackles, interceptions and passes cleaved up, and had a career-loftier 11 tackles (ii solo) and intercepted 2 passes in the Fiesta Bowl loss to Ohio Land. He made a disquisitional play during the game, in which he intercepted Buckeyes quarterback Craig Krenzel in the endzone and returned the ball out of the endzone. Buckeyes running back Maurice Clarett ran Taylor downward, and in the process stripped the ball away from him. Clarett recovered the ball for Ohio State, allowing them to kick a field goal to get upward 17–7 at the fourth dimension.

2003 season [edit]

Taylor produced a historic flavor during his final year at Miami that culminated with a plethora of honors and awards. He was named a unanimous get-go-squad All-American, the Big Eastward Briefing Defensive Player of the Yr and a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, given to the nation's best defensive back. He led the Big Due east Conference and ranked first nationally in interceptions with 10, tying the record for interceptions in a season with erstwhile Hurricanes standout Bennie Blades. Taylor also finished first in total tackles with 77 (57 solo). He intercepted ii passes in Miami's impressive 28–xiv win over Pittsburgh, playing a central role equally the Hurricanes express All-American receiver Larry Fitzgerald to just three receptions for 26 yards. He returned interceptions for an boilerplate of 18.4 yards, including a 67-grand touchdown return at Boston College, a 50-yard scoring runback at Florida State and a 44-yard scoring runback against Rutgers University. His three touchdown returns of interceptions is a Miami single-season record.

Taylor besides competed in track & field as a senior for the Hurricanes. He placed 4th in the 100-meter at the Gatorade Invitational in Coral Gables, Florida with a time of 10.77 seconds, backside teammates Terrell Walden, Roscoe Parrish and Travarous Bain.[11] His best efforts for the season came at the Big East Outdoor T&F Championships in Storrs, Connecticut, where he ran personal-bests of ten.74 seconds in the 100-meter dash and 21.60 seconds in the 200-meter dash.[12] He also participated every bit a member of the 4x100 relay.

Higher statistics [edit]

Season Team GP Defense force
Tckl TfL PD Int FF
2001 Miami ten 26 0.0 0 0 0
2002 Miami 13 85 4.0 15 four 1
2003 Miami 12 77 0.0 0 ten 0
Totals 35 188 4.0 15 14 1

Professional person career [edit]

Post-obit his 2003 season, Taylor appear that he was entering the NFL draft. He attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana, simply opted to skip all of the combine drills and only met with team representatives and personnel.

Pre-draft measurables
Height Weight Arm length Hand span xl-yard dash Vertical spring Broad jump Bench press Wonderlic
half-dozen ft 2+ one⁄2  in
(1.89 thousand) 		230 lb
(104 kg) 		32+ iii⁄8  in
(0.82 m) 		10+ i⁄viii  in
(0.26 chiliad)		 4.51 s 35.0 in
(0.89 m)		 10 ft 1 in
(three.07 m)		 eleven reps x
All values from NFL Combine/Miami Pro Day[13]

Washington Redskins [edit]

The Washington Redskins selected Taylor in the first round (5th overall) of the 2004 NFL Draft. He was the first of a record vi players selected in the first circular from the Academy of Miami; the other five players were Kellen Winslow 2, Jonathan Vilma, D. J. Williams, Vernon Carey and Vince Wilfork.[14]

2004 [edit]

On July 27, 2004, the Washington Redskins signed Taylor to a six-yr, $18.5 meg contract that included a $13.iv million signing bonus and could have been worth $forty meg with incentives and bonuses. His contract besides included a seventh-year option. Taylor became the first top ten pick to sign his contract in 2004.[ix] [15]

On August 4, 2004, it was reported that Taylor fired his agents Eugene Mato and Jeff Moorad subsequently he became unsatisfied with his contract. He fired them afterwards other elevation x picks signed their contracts and felt their deals were meliorate in comparison. This marked his second time firing agents within five months afterwards he fired agent Drew Rosenhaus two days after the NFL draft. He immediately rehired Rosenhaus, who served as his agent for the remainder of his career.[sixteen] Taylor too had an incident that involved his early deviation during the NFL's Rookie Symposium which was mandatory for every incoming player from the draft and was held over four days. He left after the beginning solar day, but returned for the final ii days at the urgence of representatives from the Redskins. Over his offset three seasons, Taylor as well was fined at least vii times for late hits, uniform violations and other infractions.

Throughout training army camp, Taylor competed for the job as the starting complimentary safety against Andre Lott.[17] On August 9, 2004, Taylor made his professional person NFL debut in the Redskins' preseason-opener as part of their 2nd unit of measurement defense confronting the Denver Broncos. He recorded two interceptions in the second half off passes by rookie quarterback Matt Mauck. During the third quarter, Taylor intercepted a pass intended for Jeb Putzier and returned it for a 3-one thousand touchdown to put Washington in the atomic number 82 10–9.[18] Head charabanc Joe Gibbs named Taylor the backup free safety to begin the regular season, behind starter Andre Lott, after Taylor failed to surpass him on the depth chart.[16]

He made his professional regular season debut in the Washington Redskins' flavour-opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and assisted on 1 tackle in their 16–10 victory. In Week 3, Taylor earned his get-go career kickoff after surpassing Lott on the depth chart and recorded four combined tackles and deflected two passes in the Redskins' 21–18 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. On October 18, 2004, Taylor made 4 solo tackles, a pass deflection, a sack, and returned his outset career interception for 45-yards during a 13–10 win at the Chicago Bears. He made his first career interception and sack during the game, recording both on quarterback Brian Griese. In Calendar week 12, he nerveless a season-high x combined tackles (seven solo) and broke upwardly a pass in a xvi–7 loss at the Pittsburgh Steelers.[nineteen] He finished his rookie season in 2004 with 76 combined tackles (60 solo), nine pass deflections, four interceptions, 2 forced fumbles, and a sack in xv games and 13 starts.[xx]

2005 [edit]

Before the season started, Taylor switched his jersey number from No. 36 to No. 21 after it was available due to the difference of cornerback Fred Smoot to the Minnesota Vikings. Taylor kept the number when Smoot rejoined the Redskins in 2007, with Smoot opting to wear No. 27.[21] Assistant head bus/defensive coordinator Gregg Williams opted to retain Taylor every bit the starting free safety to brainstorm the regular season, alongside stiff safe Ryan Clark.[22]

He started the Washington Redskins' season-opener against the Chicago Bears and recorded four solo tackles and broke upwardly a pass in their nine–7 victory. On Nov eleven, 2005, it was reported that Taylor and teammate Clinton Portis received fines from the NFL due to violating the league's uniform code during the Redskins' 17–x home victory against the Philadelphia Eagles in Week ix. Taylor'south fine was for $5,000 due to his choice of wearing white socks with a burgundy and gold striped pattern instead of the required all white socks.[23] He was inactive for the Redskins' Week ten loss at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers due to an injury. On January 1, 2006, he collected a flavor-high ix combined tackles and deflected 2 passes during a 31–20 win at the Philadelphia Eagles.[24] Taylor finished the 2005 flavour with 70 combined tackles (60 solo), a career-high ten pass deflections, 2 interceptions, two forced fumbles, and a sack in 15 games and 15 starts.[20]

The Washington Redskins finished 2d in the NFC Due east with a ten–half dozen tape and received a wildcard berth. On January seven, 2006, Taylor started in his outset career playoff game and recorded 7 combined tackles and returned a fumble recovery for a 51-1000 touchdown in the first quarter of their 17–10 victory at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Referee Mike Carey ejected Taylor in the third quarter after he spit in Buccaneers' running back Michael Pittman's confront. Defensive coordinator Gregg Williams stated Taylor denied the claim and he believed and stood by his player. During his rookie season, he allegedly spit in the confront of wide receiver T. J. Houshmandzadeh, merely was not reprehended due to the NFL being unable to recover clear video prove.[25] Two days afterwards, the NFL fined Taylor $17,000 for the incident.[26] The Redskins were eliminated the following game after losing 20-10 to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Divisional Round. Taylor finished the loss with seven combined tackles and a pass deflection.[24]

2006 [edit]

Caput motorcoach Joe Gibbs named Taylor the starting free safety to first the regular season in 2006, along with starting strong safety Adam Archuleta.[27]

On October fifteen, 2006, Taylor nerveless a season-loftier ten combined tackles (eight solo) and deflected a pass during a 25–22 loss to the Tennessee Titans. In Week 9, Taylor fabricated eight combined tackles and returned a blocked 35-yard field goal attempt by Mike Vanderjagt for a 30-k gain with less than six seconds left in the game. A facemask on Taylor by Kyle Kosier added a 15-yard penalty and placed the Redskins in field goal range with an untimed down. Vanderjagt'southward game-winning field goal was blocked by Troy Vincent and immune Redskins' kicker Nick Novak to kick a 47-yard game-winning field goal to defeat the Dallas Cowboys 22–19.[28] On November 26, 2006, Taylor recorded five combined tackles, two pass deflections, and intercepted a pass by quarterback Jake Delhomme in the Redskins' 17–xiii win against the Carolina Panthers. He made a central fourth down tackle on Jake Delhomme in the fourth quarter and his interception sealed the Redskins' victory. He was voted every bit the NFC Defensive Player of the Week for his performance.[29] He finished the 2006 season with a career-high 111 combined tackles (86 solo), half dozen pass deflections, three forced fumbles, and an interception in 16 games and 16 starts.[20] During the season, Washington Redskins banana motorbus Gregg Williams frequently called Taylor the all-time athlete that he had e'er coached.[iv]

External video
video icon Sean Taylor's hitting on Brian Moorman

Even while playing on a struggling Redskins defensive unit of measurement, Taylor'southward impact on the field was recognized when he was named a first alternate to the NFC'due south 2007 Pro Bowl team. When the NFC's first choice for safety, Brian Dawkins of the Philadelphia Eagles, chose not to play in the Pro Bowl due to an injury, Taylor was named to the vacated spot, marker his first and merely Pro Basin appearance. A crushing hitting by Taylor on Buffalo Bills punter Brian Moorman in the Pro Bowl created much fan and media word.[thirty]

2007 [edit]

Prior to the offset of the 2007 season, Sports Illustrated named Taylor the hardest-hitting player in the NFL.[31]

Before the season, in a rare interview, he was quoted as maxim, "[Y]ou play a child's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't accept it serious enough, eventually 1 day y'all're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.'" The flavour appeared to represent a personal turnaround for Taylor, equally teammates said that he had finally gotten his life straightened out because of his daughter.[32]

Prior to the season's start, the Redskins decided to utilise Taylor in a more traditional gratuitous safety office with less responsibleness.[33]

At the fourth dimension of his death, Taylor was tied for the most interceptions in the National Football Conference and second in the league with five despite having missed Weeks 11 and 12 with a human knee injury. Taylor had also compiled 42 tackles, nine passes defended and a forced fumble.[33]

On December eighteen, 2007, Taylor was posthumously voted to his 2d Pro Bowl, becoming the first deceased player in NFL history to exist elected to the Pro Basin. During the Pro Bowl, the Redskins players who had been selected, Chris Samuels, Chris Cooley and Ethan Albright, wore #21 to laurels Taylor.[34] Like the Redskins had done earlier in the season, the NFC lined up with just one safe on the first play of the game.[35]

NFL career statistics [edit]

NFL career statistics
Twelvemonth Team Games Tackling Fumbles Interceptions
GP GS Comb Solo Ast Sck FF FR Yds Int Yds Avg Lng TD PD
2004 WAS 15 15 76 lx xvi one.0 2 0 0 4 85 21.2 45 0 nine
2005 WAS xv 15 70 lx ten 1.0 ii 1 1 ii 34 17.0 32 0 10
2006 WAS sixteen 16 111 86 25 0.0 3 0 0 ane 25 25.0 25 0 vi
2007 WAS 9 9 42 32 10 0.0 2 0 0 5 98 19.half dozen 48 0 nine
Career 55 55 299 238 61 2.0 9 1 1 12 242 20.vii 48 0 34

Legal bug [edit]

In October 2004, Taylor was arrested in Fairfax County, Virginia, on a accuse of driving nether the influence of booze following a birthday political party in Washington, D.C., for former Redskins receiver Rod Gardner. Pulled over for driving 82 mph on the Beltway, where the speed limit is 55 mph, Taylor failed a field sobriety test and and so refused a claret alcohol (BAC) test, which resulted in his arrest.[36] A Fairfax County judge acquitted Taylor of the charges in March 2005 after viewing a videotape of Taylor's roadside sobriety tests that, co-ordinate to the judge, failed to demonstrate obvious intoxication. Taylor was, notwithstanding, convicted for refusing to accept a claret booze test requested by a Virginia land police officer.[37] Just when this example was heard on appeal in March 2005, Taylor was acquitted of refusing to take the BAC exam, with the judge ruling there was a lack of likely cause for the asking.[38]

Taylor was sought by constabulary post-obit a June 2005 incident in which bullets were fired into a stolen vehicle.[39] During an April 2006 trial, Taylor pled no contest to misdemeanor battery and assail charges; he was placed on 18 months probation and ordered to support 10 Miami-Dade Canton schools by speaking about the importance of education and donating $ane,000 to each school.[40]

Death [edit]

On November 18, 2007, burglars pried open a window to Taylor's empty home and rifled through a desk and safe.[41] On November 26, Taylor heard noises in his business firm and, while investigating the cause, he was shot in the upper leg by an intruder. His fiancée, Jackie García, and their 18-calendar month-old daughter, Jackie, were unharmed.[42] Taylor's femoral artery[9] was severed, causing all-encompassing blood loss, and he died the following day.[43] [44] Taylor'south funeral was held at the Pharmed Arena at Florida International University in Miami on December 3, 2007.[45]

On Nov xxx, four men – Venjah M. Hunte, 20; Eric Rivera, Jr., 17; Jason Scott Mitchell, 19; and Charles Kendrick Lee Wardlow, xviii – were arrested. Police said more than i confessed.[46] All four men were charged with felony second-degree murder, armed break-in, and home invasion robbery with a firearm, charges which carried a maximum of life in prison.[47] In May 2008, a fifth suspect, xvi-year-old Timothy Chocolate-brown, was charged with first-caste murder and burglary.[48] All the murder charges were afterwards increased to first-degree murder.[49] The death penalization, notwithstanding, was not sought considering the gunman, Rivera, was 17 years old.

Remembrance [edit]

The NFL recognized the death of Taylor past placing a No. 21 decal on the back of all NFL players' helmets during all Calendar week 13 games; additionally, a moment of silence was held before each game that calendar week. Players on other teams were given the choice to proceed wearing the decals in subsequent weeks.

Taylor was posthumously voted starting gratis rubber for the NFC team for the 2008 Pro Bowl and voted a second team All-Pro.[fifty]

The Redskins had the number 21 painted on the field, at a parking lot archway and in the Redskins Ring of Fame, all 3 of which became temporary memorials. In addition to the black No. 21 sticker on the back of every NFL helmet, the Redskins also wore the number as a patch on player uniforms, warmup shirts and coaching staff jackets, as well every bit unveiling a banner bearing his proper noun and number. His locker at Redskins Park was encased in Plexiglas and left the same mode Taylor had left information technology. The organization too established a trust fund for Taylor's daughter, Jackie.[51]

The offset Redskins game after Taylor's expiry was on December ii, 2007, which was confronting the Buffalo Bills and held at FedExField. The game began with the Redskins defense force playing with x men on the field instead of the usual eleven.[52] Players signaled to the sky, holding up the numbers two and ane, on numerous occasions. The team requested that fans arrive 25 minutes before the commencement of the game at 12:40pm and played a 4-minute remembrance video, held a moment of silence and gave attendees commemorative towels with Taylor's number on them in his honor and memory.

Teammates Chris Cooley, Chris Samuels and Ethan Albright all wore jerseys with No. 21 during the 2008 Pro Bowl.[53] The iii jerseys were auctioned off and the proceeds donated to the Sean Taylor Memorial Trust Fund.

The murder was covered on the Investigation Discovery show The Perfect Murder.

His jersey number was retired by the squad in October 2021; he was the tertiary player in the team's history to accept that accolade.[54] The anniversary also included naming of a route to the stadium in his honor.[55]

Trial [edit]

On May 12, 2008, it was announced the suspects, if convicted, would not face the death penalisation, but may be subjected to life imprisonment because the suspected gunman, Eric Rivera, was only 17 at the time of the shooting.[56] On May 15, 2008, Venjah Hunte, i of the five suspects in Taylor's murder, accustomed a plea bargain and was sentenced to 29 years in prison house.[57] On Apr ane, 2009, Hunte petitioned the courtroom to withdraw his guilty plea.[58]

Although originally scheduled for April seven, 2008, the trial of the men charged with Sean Taylor's murder was postponed to June 2009.[59] It was postponed by petition of the defence force, maxim that there were notwithstanding hundreds of potential witnesses who needed to be interviewed before the trial could proceed. The trial was then delayed for a tertiary time on June ix, 2009, for unspecified reasons. A new trial appointment was set for January 18, 2010, and was postponed again with a trial appointment of March 14, 2011.[lx] [61] After another delay, the trial was ready to begin on January thirty, 2012.[62]

On January 20, 2012, a judge set a trial appointment of Apr 16 for Eric Rivera, Jr., the alleged gunman in the example.[63] Notwithstanding, Rivera fired his lawyer on March sixteen,[64] eventually causing delays. On July 12, the judge postponed the trial to Nov 5,[65] but that date was further moved back to April 5, 2013, due to a scheduling disharmonize with the chief prosecutor.[66] On April 2, 2013, the trial was again postponed to Baronial 12 of that twelvemonth. Too in August, the trial was postponed to September 16 [67] and afterwards rescheduled to October 15. During his trial, Rivera testified that someone else fired the gun.[68] On November 4, a jury found Eric Rivera, Jr. guilty of 2nd-degree murder and armed burglary, which could carry a life imprisonment sentence.[69]

On January 23, 2014, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy sentenced Rivera to 57 1⁄2 years in prison.[68] On June 10, Jason Scott Mitchell was bedevilled in Taylor's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.[70]

On April 1, 2015, Charles Wardlow, the fourth person charged with the expiry of Taylor, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.[71] A week afterwards, the final accused, Timmy Lee Chocolate-brown, was sentenced to 18 years in prison house under his plea agreement.[72]

Legacy [edit]

Taylor was inducted posthumously as the 43rd fellow member into the Washington Redskins Ring of Fame on November thirty, 2008.[73]

Taylor's family unit attending his jersey number retirement and street dedication ceremony at FedExField in 2021

Multiple players have honored Taylor by donning his jersey numbers that he wore during his college and professional career. During his higher career Taylor wore No. 26 for the Miami Hurricanes. As a rookie in 2004, he wore No. 36 before switching to No. 21 for the remainder of his career. Taylor's old teammate and fellow safety Ryan Clark returned to the Washington Redskins in 2014 later an eight-year stint with the Pittsburgh Steelers. During practices, Clark wore No. 21 in Taylor'due south honor. The Washington Redskins' 2nd round pick in the 2016 NFL Typhoon, Su'a Cravens, chose No. 36 upon joining the Redskins equally a rookie in dedication to Taylor. Cravens switched to No. 39 in 2017 after safe D. J. Swearinger requested No. 36 after signing with the Redskins as a free agent. Swearinger wore No. 36 throughout four teams in his professional person career as a style to honor Taylor.[74] On April 4, 2018, the New York Giants announced prophylactic Landon Collins would switch from No. 27 to No. 21 to honor Taylor. Collins also wore Taylor'southward college number (No. 26) during his collegiate career at Alabama as a way to pay tribute.[75] In September of 2020 one of the roads leading to FedExField was renamed Sean Taylor Road in Taylor's memory.[76] On October 17, 2021, the Washington franchise retired Sean Taylor's number before a game against the Kansas City Chiefs with his family in attendance. [77]

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External links [edit]

  • Sean Taylor contour and statistics at ESPN.com
  • Sean Taylor memorial at Sports Encyclopedia
  • "Family Ties Offering Link in Taylor Killing," The Washington Post, December 2, 2007 [ expressionless link ]
  • "Fourth Taylor Suspect Appears in Court, Denied Bail," The Washington Post, December 2, 2007 [ expressionless link ]
  • Sean Taylor video tribute at Yahoo [ permanent expressionless link ]
  • Sean Taylor at Find a Grave

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