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Te XAN S<br />

Height: 5-11<br />

Weight: 245<br />

College: Wake Forest<br />

<strong>Home</strong>town: Powder Springs, Georgia<br />

2nd NFL Season<br />

2nd with <strong>Texans</strong><br />

Age as of Kickoff Weekend 2008: 23<br />

Acquired: FA-2007<br />

2007 GP/GS: 0/0<br />

Career GP/GS: 0/0<br />

Teams: <strong>Houston</strong>, 2007<br />

45<br />

JON ABBATE<br />

FULLBACK<br />

veterans<br />

TRANSACTIONS: Signed by <strong>Houston</strong> <strong>Texans</strong> as<br />

an undrafted free agent on May 4, 2007…Placed<br />

on injured reserve on September 1, 2007…<br />

Waived by <strong>Texans</strong> on February 27, 2008…Resigned<br />

by <strong>Texans</strong> on February 29, 2008.<br />

PRO: Physical young player who made the<br />

transition from linebacker in college to fullback<br />

with the <strong>Texans</strong>…first player in Wake Forest<br />

history to forego his senior season to enter the<br />

NFL draft…saw his rookie season cut short by<br />

a broken ankle suffered in preseason and spent<br />

the season on injured reserve.<br />

All-ACC as a freshman, the first Wake Forest<br />

freshman to earn league honors of any kind<br />

since 1976…runner-up for ACC Rookie of the<br />

Year…named to the ACC All-Freshman team by<br />

The Sporting News…a three-time ACC Rookie<br />

of the Week award winner…led the Deacons<br />

with 101 tackles…sociology major.<br />

PERSONAL: Named the 2002 Georgia prep<br />

defensive player of the year by the Atlanta<br />

Journal-Constitution and the Marietta Journal<br />

as a senior Hoya at Powder Springs (Ga.) High<br />

School.<br />

2007 (<strong>Houston</strong> 0/0): Made the switch from<br />

linebacker to fullback during offseason<br />

workouts…spent his rookie season on injured<br />

reserve after breaking his right ankle in the<br />

<strong>Texans</strong> second preseason game at Arizona<br />

(8/18)…placed on injured reserve (9/1).<br />

COLLEGE: Only the third player in ACC history<br />

to lead his team in tackles as a freshman,<br />

sophomore and junior…earned All-American<br />

honors from Sports Illustrated as a junior and<br />

was a three-time All-ACC selection…first-team<br />

all-conference pick as a junior, when he finished<br />

with second in the conference with 120 tackles,<br />

three sacks, an interception, a fumble recovery<br />

and a forced fumble…named honorable mention<br />

While at Wake Forest,<br />

he changed his<br />

number from #40<br />

to #5 in honor of his<br />

late younger<br />

brother, Luke<br />

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