While being a professional athlete is its own breed of celebrity, there’s been a fair number of football players who set ... the typical athlete-turned-actor pitfall of playing fictionalized ...

He turned to acting when he retired ... in what is a great injustice in the minds of most every player who ever shared a field with him, is not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

LOS ANGELES — Brad William Henke, an NFL player who later earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination ... He played college football on a scholarship at the University of Arizona and was ...

(Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press) Brad William Henke, an NFL player who later earned a Screen Actors Guild Award ... He played college football on a scholarship at the University ...

The star linebacker popped on the screen courtesy of football player-turned-actor Duane Davis (son of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Davis). His athletic background made the Eastern State University ...