Kenneth Sims, former No. 1 overall pick of the Patriots and Texas pass rusher, dies at 65


Kenneth Sims, former No. 1 overall pick of the Patriots and Texas pass rusher, dies at 65

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Kenneth Sims, No. 1 Overall Pick of New England assets in 1982 NFL Draft The star at the University of Texas, died in the age of 65: The patron announced. Sims had been bade in the disease and passed in his sleep at home on Friday.

“We have passed our longhorn legend College football Hall of Famer Kenneth Sims, “is Official Texas Football System Wrote in X. “Our thoughts and prayers go to his family, friends and teammates.”

Sims, who induced in college football Hall of the report in 2021, was dominant 6 for longhorns. After the future for football Hall of Famer Steve McMichael and Bill Acker, the defensive tackle Rose to promote his junior season, where notched 131 tackles and named in all-American. It follows that the Breakout campaign with another American season as older and became the first Longhorn win Lombard Award. It was also the top defensive vote-getter at the heisman trophy by the 1981 time.

Texas went 10-1-1 in the Sims’ last collegiate time when culminated with a win in 1982 cotton bowl.

That all led to the sims to be in No. 1 Overall Pick of Patriots in 1982 and going to play eight times with your organization. In all, sims played 74 life games to new England between 64 begins. The talled 17 sacks on the tenure, included from 5.5-sack season in his 13 games played in 1985. Unfortunately, sims broke the legs at the time that a playing Crater 20, in which the Chicago bears losers.

In the post in the social media, the goods wrote up “Deeply sorry for the passage” the sims.