Roger Craig at Nebraska
Photo: Photograph: Staff Sergeant Bradley Lail, United States Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Running back, Nebraska, 1979–⁠82

Roger Craig

Lettered 1980–⁠82 (school media guide)

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Roger Craig played running back at Nebraska (1979–⁠82). The San Francisco 49ers took Craig in round 2, No. 49 overall in the 1983 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
1981
Second-team All-Big Eight
Drafted
No. 49
Round 2, 1983 NFL Draft (San Francisco 49ers)

Honors

Team titles: Big Eight champions, 1981 and 1982

Season by season, from Wikipedia

SeasonRushingReceiving
AttYdsAvgTDRecYdsAvgTD
19797314.40000.00
19801087697.115000.00
19811731,0606.1612877.30
19821195864.954153.80
Career4072,44626161020

From the college statistics table in Craig’s Wikipedia article (Roger Craig (American football), CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).

The teams in those years

Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.

In the NFL

Pro Bowls: 4 (1985, 1987–⁠89) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 1988 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 1985

All-Pro teams: AP first team 1988; AP second team 1985; Pro Football Writers first team 1988; Sporting News first team 1988; NEA first team 1988; Pro Football Weekly first team 1988; and 1 more.

Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Books

Books: Open Library (CC0); most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

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