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Height: 6-2
Weight: 227
College: Stanford
Hometown: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2nd NFL season
2nd with Texans
Age as of Kickoff Weekend 2008: 23
Acquired: D5a, 2007 (144th overall)
2007 GP/GS: 0/0
Career GP/GS: 0/0
Teams: Houston, 2007
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BRANDON HARRISON
SAFETY
TRANSACTIONS: Selected by Houston Texans in
the fifth round (144th overall) of 2007 NFL draft…
Signed by Texans on July 23, 2007…Placed on
injured reserve on September 1, 2007.
PRO: Spent his entire rookie season on injured
reserve…looks to contribute to the secondary
and on special teams.
2007 (Houston 0/0): Placed injured reserve after
sustaining an injury during training camp.
COLLEGE: A two-year starter and three year
letter-winner…played in 44-of-45 possible
games in his career, starting 33-of-34 possible
contests over his final three seasons (2004-
06)…finished as Stanford’s active career leader
in interceptions with five…finished with 186
tackles (127 solo, 59 assisted), 2.0 sacks, 7.0
tackles for loss, five interceptions, three fumble
recoveries, a blocked kick, one forced fumble
and 16 pass breakups…political science major.
PERSONAL: One of the top recruits in the state
of Louisiana out of Catholic High School in
Baton Rouge…named first-team all-district
and all-metro as a senior for the Bears…
recorded 38 tackles and four interceptions,
one of which was returned for a touchdown…
played basketball and ran track for four years…
earned three varsity letters in track and two
in basketball…member of the National Honor
Society…National Merit Finalist and National
Achievement Finalist.
Earned letters
in track and
basketball in
high school in
Baton Rouge, La
veterans
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Tidbit
Williams is AFC’s Returning Sack Leader
With 14.0 sacks in 2007, DE Mario Williams finished third among the
NFL’s sack leaders. Williams’ sack total was second the AFC, trailing
only Kansas City’s Jared Allen. With Allen’s move to Minnesota in the
offseason, Williams becomes the returning sack leader in the AFC.
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