Tony Dorsett

Anthony Drew Dorsett Sr.

Position: RB
Height: 5-11 Weight: 192 lbs.

Born: April 7, 1954 in Rochester, PA
College: Pittsburgh (school history)
Drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1st round (2nd overall) of the 1977 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 107 (95th overall since 1950)

Relatives: Father of Anthony Dorsett
4-time Pro Bowler & 1-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
Inducted into Hall of Fame in 1994

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News -- April 2013

4/12 FootballPerspective.com: Which Player Has Scored the Most Game-Winning Touchdowns: Five years ago, Doug wrote an interesting post about game-winning touchdowns. Let’s be clear: tracking things like game-winning...
4/2 The Packer Perspective: 2013 Draft Digest Vol. 7: Every Tuesday between now and the NFL Draft, we’ll take a look around the Internet at what some of the experts are saying about...

2/5 FootballPerspective.com: Courtney Upshaw wins back-to-back championships with Alabama and Baltimore: Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun pointed out an interesting bit of trivia today: Courtney Upshaw has now won back-to-back titles...
2/2 FootballPerspective.com: Trivia: Leading rusher in two different Super Bowls: A week before the Super Bowl, I asked if you could name the seven wide receivers to start for two different teams that reached...

1/7 FootballPerspective.com: Jamaal Charles’ 2012 was one of the most inconsistent seasons in RB history: A couple of weeks ago, I heard my buddy and co-worker Sigmund Bloom say on the Footballguys Podcast that Jamaal Charles was having...

12/29 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Career rushing stats in wins and losses: Yesterday, I noted that Adrian Peterson is averaging nearly two more yards per rush in losses than wins. He’s also averaging...
12/28 WSJ Daily Fix: Can a Viking Conquer Dickerson?: The Count: Minnesota's Adrian Peterson has to do better than nearly every prior running back in his position has done in season...

10/21 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of October 21, 2002: Friends, Texans and football fans, lend me your stat sheets. I come not to bury Emmitt Smith, but to praise him. The Dallas Cowboys...
10/10 FootballPerspective.com: Career Rushing Yards over 50 yards in each game: Career statistics can be very misleading, since a player can hang around for a bunch of meaningless years but really pad his totals....

2/26 qbinskirts.com: The Aikman Prophecies: Hall of Fame QB Troy Aikman went all Nostradamus on us in a recent interview by predicting the eventual fall from grace for the...

4/5 Arrowhead Addict: The Woman Who Could Save The NFL (Or At Least The 2011 NFL Season): Tomorrow, the future of the Kansas City Chiefs (and of every other NFL franchise) will be placed in the hands of the Honorable...