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| Position: | Cornerback | ||||||
| Personal information | |||||||
| Born: | August 10, 1971 San Bernardino, California, U.S. | ||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||
| Weight: | 188 lb (85 kg) | ||||||
| Career information | |||||||
| High school: | Eisenhower (Rialto, California) | ||||||
| College: | Arizona State | ||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1995 / Round: 1 / Pick: 32 | ||||||
| Career history | |||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||
| Career NFL statistics | |||||||
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| Player stats at NFL.com | |||||||
Craig Newsome (born August 10, 1971) is an American former professional football cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected in the first round of the 1995 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers, where he played for four years. He won Super Bowl XXXI with the Packers, beating the New England Patriots. He was later traded to the San Francisco 49ers in 1999.[1]
Newsome played for Eisenhower High School in Rialto, California, the same high school as Ronnie Lott, and attended San Bernardino Valley College before transferring to Arizona State.
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 ft 11+1⁄2 in (1.82 m) |
185 lb (84 kg) |
31 in (0.79 m) |
8+5⁄8 in (0.22 m) |
4.74 s | 1.70 s | 2.73 s | 4.56 s | 32.0 in (0.81 m) |
9 ft 7 in (2.92 m) |
9 reps | ||
| All values from NFL Combine[2] | ||||||||||||
The Packers selected Newsome in the first round with the 32nd pick in the 1995 NFL Draft.[3] He was the starting cornerback on the 1996 Green Bay Packers championship team. He also had a forced fumble and an interception in Super Bowl XXXI. On September 19, 1999 the Packers traded Newsome to the 49ers. Newsome was forced into retirement after the 1999 season, as three shattered vertebrae left him physically disabled.[4]
| Legend | ||
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| Bold | Career high | |
| Year | Team | Games | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Cmb | Solo | Ast | Sck | TFL | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | FR | Yds | TD | ||
| 1995 | GNB | 16 | 16 | 75 | 54 | 21 | 0.0 | - | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | GNB | 16 | 16 | 71 | 61 | 10 | 0.0 | - | 2 | 22 | 0 | 20 | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | GNB | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | GNB | 13 | 13 | 57 | 49 | 8 | 0.0 | - | 1 | 26 | 0 | 26 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | SFO | 7 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | 48 | 219 | 177 | 42 | 0.0 | 3 | 4 | 51 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Year | Team | Games | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Cmb | Solo | Ast | Sck | TFL | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | FR | Yds | TD | ||
| 1995 | GNB | 3 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0.0 | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 1 |
| 1996 | GNB | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0.0 | - | 3 | 40 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | GNB | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 7 | 26 | 24 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 4 | 40 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 1 | ||
Newsome coached the La Crosse River Rats of the Indoor Football League in 2000, located in La Crosse Wisconsin. He currently resides in Holmen, Wisconsin where he is a coach on the Holmen High School football team.