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Ag rookies don’t hear NFL knock
Earnest Jackson (above) leaves
San Diego for Philadelphia.
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistnnt Sports Editor
National Football League rookies
have only one fear — hearing a
knock on their door.
Most rookies never set foot on an
NFL field once the exhibition season
ends. Most hear the knock on the
door that signals the end of their ca
reer.
However, none of the ’85 Texas
A&M draftees heard the knock on
the door with the order to, “Bring
your playbook to the coach’s office.”
The most celebrated and contro
versial first-year player is a former
A&M defensive end, Ray Childress.
Childress was the third player se
lected in the draft and the Houston
Oilers’ No. 1 pick.
Childress received a lot of crit
icism when he turned down a four-
year, $1.7 million contract. The Ag
gie All-American missed three Oiler
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“Most rookies never set foot on an NFL field once the
exhibition season ends. Most hear the knock on the
door that signals the end of their career. ”
preseason games before finally
agreeing to $ 1.95 million.
Childress played in his first NFL
game last Saturday night against the
Dallas Cowboys and appears to have
won a starting role, since the Oilers
cut Jerome Foster.
Center Matt Darwin was drafted
in the fifth round by the Cowboys,
but was the only Dallas rookie not to
agree to contract terms.
The Cowboys offered Darwin a
$55,000 signing bonus and salaries
of $70,000, $85,000 and $100,000
with an option.
“As far as I’m concerned, he won’t
be here this year,” said Cil Brandt,
the Cowboys’ director of player per
sonnel, on July 18. “The money they
are talking about and what we’re of
fering, I don’t see how we can com
promise.”
Darwin can sign with a United
States Football League team or he
can put his name back into the 1986
draft.
Wide receiver Jimmy Teal was
also drafted in the fifth round. Teal,
who led the Aggies last season with
35 catches, signed a three-year deal
with the Buffalo Bills.
l ight end Mark Lewis went to the
Green Bay Packers in the sixth
round. Lewis was injured after the
second preseason game, but the
Packers apparently liked what they
saw, since Lewis was kept on and
placed on the injured reserve list.
Offensive tackle Ken Reeves fol
lowed Lewis in the draft, going to
the Philadelphia Eagles. The 6-foot-
6, 270-pound lineman will be with
the Eagles when they begin their ’85
season Sunday.
The 246th player selected in the
draft was A&M running back
1 homas Sanders. A long shot to
make the Chicago Bears, Sanders
beat the odds with four solid presea
son games.
In another development involving
an former A&M standout, 1984 Pro
Bowl running back Earnest Jackson
was traded by the San Diego Charg
ers T uesday. Jackson, who played
with the Aggies from 1979-82, will
join Reeves and center Mark Den-
nard as fellow Aggies with the Ea
gles.
“Jackson won’t start Sunday,” an
Eagles’ official said Tuesday. “He
still has to learn the offense."
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officially a Chicago Bear.
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