Jamal Reynolds

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Jamal Reynolds
Date of birth	February, 1979
Place of birth	Augusta, GA
Position(s)	Defensive end
College	Florida State University
NFL Draft	2001 / Round 1/ Pick 10
Statistics	NFL.com DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
2001-2003	Green Bay Packers

Jamal Reynolds (born February 20, 1979), is a former American football defensive end for the Green Bay Packers of the NFL.

[edit] College

Reynolds played defensive end for Florida State University from 1997-2000. In his senior year, he won the Lombardi Award and was a finalist for College Football News' Defensive Player of the Year award. In that year, Reynolds accumulated a career high 12 sacks and 58 tackles.

His strong college pedigree led the Green Bay Packers to select him with the 10th overall selection in the 2001 NFL Draft. The Packers acquired the draft pick from the Seattle Seahawks, in exchange for Matt Hasselback and the 17th overall selection in the draft. Among the players selected after Reynolds that the Packers passed on were linebacker Dan Morgan, defensive tackle Marcus Stroud, guard Steve Hutchinson, cornerback Nate Clements, and tight end Todd Heap, all of whom have gone on to be stars in the NFL.

Preceded by Corey Moore	Lombardi Award 2000	Succeeded by Julius Peppers

[edit] Professional

Injuries and the emergence of Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, however, prevented Reynolds from playing the first ten games of his rookie season. He finished his rookie season with four tackles and 2 sacks. On July 8, 2004, after two seasons in which Reynolds totalled only one sack and played in only 12 games, the Packers attempted to trade Reynolds to the Indianapolis Colts. However, the trade was declared void after Reynolds failed the Colts' physical examination. Ten days later, the Packers released Reynolds, and he was picked up by the Cleveland Browns, who hoped to salvage the still-young Reynolds' career. Reynolds was cut by the Browns before the beginning of the 2004 season, and has not played in the NFL since.

Reynolds was the ignominious final first round draft pick of legendary general manager Ron Wolf, who is typically remembered as an excellent judge of talent, and is most famous for engineering the trade that brought an unknown backup quarterback named Brett Favre to Green Bay. Alas, Reynolds' most enduring NFL legacy is the nickname applied by Packer fans: Jamal "Too Small" Reynolds, as he had the small body of a speed rusher but lacked the quickness and burst off the line of scrimmage to beat larger offensive linemen.

Reynolds is the subject of an underground email chain entitled "Jamal of the Month." The chain was created by former FSU teammate, Clay Ingram, and features digitally altered photographs of Jamal's fictional world travels. The photographs typically portray Reynolds in native attire and many of the photos show a thought bubble above his head with Reynolds' catchphrase, "Oh, Yeah?" translated into the native language of the country that he is visiting. Recent editions exhibit Reynolds' fictional trips to Mexico, France, and the North Pole. Another former FSU teammate, Sam Sprouse, is said to play a role in determining what locations Reynolds visits each month.