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Jack Lambert
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What an intimidating site for QBs.....seeing Jack across the line, no Front Teeth & Screaming Obscenitites
"If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I'd be a Pittsburgh Steeler." - - - Jack Lambert, at his Hall of Fame induction (1990)
Jack Lambert
Nickname: "Splat"
Position: Linebacker
Height: 6-4
Weight: 220
40' Dash Time: 4.7 seconds
Drafted: 1974, 2nd Round
College: Kent State
Born: July 8, 1952/ Mantua, Ohio
NFL Career: 1974-1984 Pittsburgh Steelers
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 1990
When Jack Lambert began with the Steelers, he was the youngest starter on the Pittsburgh defense. His addition played an immense role in creating what was to become one of the most successful defensive units the league has ever seen.
Lambert was a two-year All-Mid-America Conference linebacker at Kent State. In 1974 the Steelers selected Lambert in the second round of the draft. He immediately went to work and earned his position as starting middle linebacker. A position he maintained for 11 years until retiring from the Steelers and the NFL after the 1984 season. "Lambert had all the necessary ingredients- intelligence, intensity, speed, quickness, range, durability- and used them all to his advantage."
Lambert was the NFL defensive rookie of the year in 1974. He was all-pro seven times and All AFC six times in a nine-year span between 1975 and 1983. He missed all-star honors during that period only in 1977, when an injury kept him out of three games. He played in nine consecutive Pro Bowls from the 1975-1983 seasons and was the NFL defensive player of the year in 1976 and 1979.
The Steelers' defensive captain for eight years, Lambert played in six AFC Championship Games and four Super Bowls. During his career, he had 28 interceptions and fifteen opponent fumble recoveries. Lambert missed only six games because of injuries his first 10 years in the NFL but, in 1984, he suffered a severe toe injury, which eventually forced him to retire at the end of the season
