Woodson in June 2001.
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Position: | Assistant defensive backs coach | ||||||||
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Date of birth: | March 10, 1965 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Fort Wayne, Indiana | ||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 205 lb (93 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Fort Wayne (IN) Snider | ||||||||
College: | Purdue | ||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1987 / Round: 1 / Pick: 10 | ||||||||
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Tackles: | 1,163 |
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Interceptions: | 71 |
Touchdowns: | 17 |
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Roderick Kevin Woodson (born March 10, 1965) is a former American football player who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seventeen seasons. He had a 10-year stint with the Pittsburgh Steelers and was a key member of the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl XXXV championship team that beat the New York Giants. He also played for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders, wearing the jersey number 26 throughout his career. He holds the NFL record for interceptions returned for touchdown (12), and was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1993. His 71 career interceptions is the third-most in NFL history. He was an inductee of the Class of 2009 of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio on August 8, 2009. Rod played most of career as a cornerback then switched to safety during the later part of his great career.
From his retirement in 2003 to February 2011, Woodson worked as an analyst for the NFL Network (on NFL Total Access and Thursday Night Football) and for the Big Ten Network. He spent the 2011 season as the Raiders' cornerbacks coach. He then returned to broadcasting, working for Westwood One as an analyst on college football (2012) and the NFL (2013).