Rocky Rasley

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Rocky Rasley
Rocky Rasley headshot, 1975
Date of birth:	April 27, 1947 (1947-04-27) (age 61)
Place of birth:	Bakersfield, CA
Career information
Position(s):	Guard
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:	252 lb (114 kg)
College:	Oregon State
NFL Draft:	1969 / Round: 9
Organizations
As player:
1969-1973 1974 1975 1976	Detroit Lions New Orleans Saints Kansas City Chiefs San Francisco 49ers
Career highlights and Awards
Honors:	Oregon Sports Hall of Fame inductee (1967 OSU Football Team)
Stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Rocky Rasley (born April 27, 1947 in Bakersfield, California) is a former American football guard in the National Football League from 1969-1970, 1972-1976. He attended Bakersfield's South High School and Bakersfield College before enrolling at Oregon State University where he played college football under Dee Andros during the "Giant Killers" season of 1967. [1] The entire 1967 squad was later inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. [2]

Rasley was one of five Beavers selected in the 1969 NFL Draft, and was selected in the ninth round (216th overall) by the Detroit Lions. [3]. He played with the Lions for the 1969 and 1970 seasons, was on the Lions' taxi-squad during 1971, and rejoined the team for the 1972 and 1973 seasons. [4] He then went to the New Orleans Saints for a season, followed by a season with the Kansas City Chiefs. Rasley was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the 1976 expansion draft, but did not make the active roster and wound up playing for the San Francisco 49ers his last season. [5]

Prior to joining the NFL, Rasley was a competitive wrestler, and was a member of the United States wrestling team that competed at the 1969 FILA World Championships.[6] Rasley also wrestled for the Oregon State Beavers wrestling team, and was a letterman in 1968. [7]