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| Position: | Safety | ||||||
| Personal information | |||||||
| Born: | June 14, 1973 Northville, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||
| Weight: | 205 lb (93 kg) | ||||||
| Career information | |||||||
| High school: | Chapel Hill (NC) | ||||||
| College: | Appalachian State | ||||||
| NFL draft: | 1996 / Round: 3 / Pick: 87 | ||||||
| Expansion draft: | 2002 / Round: 1 / Pick: 10 | ||||||
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Matthew Brian Stevens (born June 14, 1973) is a former American football safety in the National Football League (NFL), who played for five different teams. He played college football at Appalachian State University. He was drafted in the third round of the 1996 NFL Draft.[1]
Stevens was paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle accident in 2007;[2] however, by 2011 he had regained the ability to move through the use of special leg brace support.
Stevens was born in Northville, Michigan, but his family moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina) when he was a child. He attended Chapel Hill High School, graduating in 1991.