Willie Gault

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Willie Gault
Date of birth	September 5, 1960
Place of birth	Griffin, Georgia
Position(s)	Wide Receiver
College	Tennessee
NFL Draft	1983 / Round 1/ Pick 18
Stats
Statistics	Pro Football Reference DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
1983-1987 1988–1993	Chicago Bears Los Angeles Raiders

Willie James Gault (born September 5, 1960 in Griffin, Georgia) was a National Football League wide receiver with the 1985/86 Chicago Bears team that won Super Bowl XX.

Gault was the prototypical "speed merchant", meaning his greatest asset was his pure straight line swiftness. He was the primary long-pass threat on a team known as one of best defensive teams in history. In Super Bowl XX, Gault had four receptions for 129 yards, and four kickoff returns for 49 yards.

A star in both football and athletics at the University of Tennessee, Gault was part of a world record-setting 4 x 100 metres relay team, a 110 metre hurdler who would have gone to the 1980 Summer Olympics if the United States had not boycotted the event and a bobsledder (he made the American Olympic team on one occasion). He was an All-American wide receiver in 1982.

Gault was drafted in 1983, played with the Bears until 1988 and then was traded to the Los Angeles Raiders (now Oakland Raiders). He retired in the early 1990s and is pursuing an acting career in Hollywood. He portrayed Willie the Sweeper in the NBC series the Pretender. He also appears rarely on "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" on Nickelodeon as a sportscaster.

Gault finished his 11 NFL seasons with 333 receptions for 6,635 yards. He also returned 9 punts for 60 yards, rushed for 154 yards, returned 45 kickoffs for 1,088 yards, and scored 45 touchdowns (44 receiving and 1 kickoff return).