Kwame Cavil

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Kwame Cavil
Date of birth	May 3, 1979 (age 27)
Place of birth	Waco, Texas
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	205 lb (93 kg)
Position(s)	WR
College	Texas
Stats
Statistics	Pro Football Reference DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
2000	Buffalo Bills

Kwame Cavil (born May 3, 1979 in Waco, Texas) is a Canadian Football League wide receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

[edit] College career

Cavil played college football for the University of Texas Longhorns from 1997 to 1999. He was the first player ever to leave one of Mack Brown's UT teams with college eligibility remaining. Cavil was suspended from the team prior to the bowl game in his junior year, for “violation of team rules.” The nature of the violation was not specified by Brown, Cavil, or the university. It is uncertain if Cavil would have been welcomed back to the team for his senior season if he had not left early, but it was reported at the time that Brown says he never tells players what to do if they are considering entering the NFL draft early, implying that it was in fact an early departure for the draft. Cavil himself said “After great deliberation with my family, I have decided to forego my final year of eligibility and go to the NFL,” Cavil subsequently went undrafted.^[1]

[edit] Professional career

Cavil was a wide receiver for the NFL Buffalo Bills in 2000.

Cavil joined the CFL in 2002, signing his first contract with the Montreal Alouettes. He has since moved around the league,^[2] most recently having been traded by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to the Blue Bombers on Friday, August 18, 2006 for a third round pick in the 2007 Canadian College Draft. He had been traded from the Edmonton Eskimos to Hamilton in March of 2006, and was dealt from Edmonton to Montreal the previous year before returning to the Eskimos. While in Montreal Cavil was a CFL Eastern All-Star in 2004 with over 1,000 receiving yards. Cavil began to create a name for himself in Winnipeg, in part because of his unique end zone dances. As of February 16th 2007 Cavil is a CFL free agent and is in ongoing contract negotiations with the Winnipeg football club.