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Four
Football Players Get Chance in NFL (05/07/2007) |
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FROM BALL STATE
ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING
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Erik Keys
and Terry Moss Sign Free Agent Contracts |
| MUNCIE, Ind. --
Four senior members of the 2006 football team -- Erik
Keys (Indianapolis, Ind./Broad Ripple H.S.), Terry
Moss (Huber Heights, Ohio/Wayne H.S.), Michael Hay
(Coldwater, Ohio/Coldwater H.S.) and Brian Jackson
(Dothan, Ala./Northview) -- have been given a chance
to make a National Football League roster. |
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Keys and Moss
have signed free agent contracts with the Tennessee Titans
and Detroit Lions, respectively, while Michael Hay
and Brian Jackson were invited to the Chicago Bears
Mini Camp as tryout players. |
| Keys was
an All-Mid-American Conference Second-Team choice last
season after starting all 12 games for the Cardinals and
leading the team with 90 tackles. Keys also tallied
four tackles for loss, one sack, one interception and
recovered four fumbles in 2006. |
| Moss started
11 games for Ball State and registered 27 catches for 685
yards with eight touchdowns. His 25.4 yards per catch led
the team, while Moss also led the Cardinals with
103.0 all-purpose yards per contest. In addition to an
81-yard pass reception for a touchdown in 2006, Moss was
credited for touchdowns in his career on a blocked punt
and a kick return. |
| Hay
spent his Ball State career as the team’s longsnapper on
punts, field goals and extra point attempts. He played in
all 46 games in his four seasons. |
| Jackson,
who was one of 20 semifinalists for the 2006 Lou Groza
Award which goes to the nation’s top placekicker, made
17-of-19 field goals last fall, including a long field
goal of 52 yards vs. Indiana. In addition, he made
37-of-38 extra point kicks, and made 15 of his final 16
field goal attempts in 2006. Jackson was named the
MAC Special Teams Player of the Year in 2006 after
completing his Ball State career as one of the most
efficient kickers in school history. Jackson set
the Ball State career record for extra points with 111
plus was second for most points scored with 258. In
addition, his 49 career field goals ranks as the third
best effort in Ball State history. |
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