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| Height: | 6-7 |
| Weight: | 302 |
| College: | San Diego State |
| Experience: | 11th season |
74 Ephraim Salaam - Biography
HEIGHT: 6-7
WEIGHT: 302
COLLEGE: San Diego State
NFL EXP: 11th season
| Career Statistics | |||||||
| Year | Team | G | GS | tckls | solo | ast | fum rec |
| 1998 | ATL | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | ATL | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | ATL | 14 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | ATL | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | DEN | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | DEN | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | JAC | 15 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | JAC | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | HOU | 15 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | HOU | 16 | 16 | ||||
| 2008 | HOU | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 2009 | DET | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 153 | 129 | |||||
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TRANSACTIONS: Selected by Atlanta Falcons in seventh round (199th pick overall) of 1998 NFL draft…signed by Falcons on June 3, 1998…re-signed by Falcons on April 6, 2001…signed by Denver Broncos on April 15, 2002…waived by Broncos on March 2, 2004…signed by Jacksonville Jaguars on March 26, 2004…released by Jaguars on December 30, 2005…re-signed by Jaguars on January 3, 2006…signed by Houston Texans on May 2, 2006…re-signed by Texans on March 5, 2007.
HONORS: 2007 Mickey Herskowitz Award (most media-friendly player).
PRO (through 2007 season): Smart, physical veteran lineman…has played in 141 career games with 129 starts… has started at both left and right tackle in his career…played in four career playoff games with three starts, including Super Bowl XXXIII…four-year starter at right tackle for Atlanta and made a successful transition to left tackle with the Broncos…one of only four players in NFL history to start 19 games in his rookie season (1998), combining the regular season and playoffs.
2008 (Houston 13/0): Played at left tackle at Pittsburgh (9/7)... did not play at Tennessee (9/21) or at Jacksonville (9/28)...played in the goal line offense vs. Indianapolis (10/5)...did not play vs. Miami (10/12)...played at left tackle vs. Detroit (10/19), vs. Cincinnati (10/26) and at Minnesota (11/2)...played at left tackle vs. Baltimore (11/9) and at Indianapolis (11/16)...played at left tackle at Cleveland (11/23)...played at left tackle vs. Jacksonville (12/1), at Green Bay (12/7), vs. Tennessee (12/14) and at Oakland (12/21)...played at left tackle vs. Chicago (12/28).
2007 (Houston 16/16): Started all 16 games for the fourth time in his career…has started the last 30 games at left tackle for the Texans dating back to last season…played in 988 of a possible 993 snaps in 2007…part of a line that yielded a team-low 22 sacks on the season…the Texans offensive line allowed two or fewer sacks in 13 of 16 games…started at left tackle against Kansas City (9/9), the first time since 2003 that Salaam started on kickoff weekend…started at Atlanta (9/30), the team that drafted him in the seventh round in the 1998 draft…served as a team captain against his former team at Jacksonville (10/14)…made a start against his third former team when the Texans faced Denver in Houston's first Thursday Night Game (12/13)…Houston yielded a mere three sacks in the four games against Salaam's former teams.
2006 (Houston 15/14): Played in 15 games, starting 14 at left tackle in his first season with the Texans…did not play in the season opener against Philadelphia (9/10) and saw reserve action at Indianapolis (9/17) when starting T Charles Spencer went down with a broken leg…moved into the starting lineup against Washington (9/24) and started the final 14 games of the season…the start against the Redskins was the 100th of his career.
2005 (Jacksonville 5/2): Played in five games, starting two at left tackle…inactive for 10 games before being released prior to the regular-season finale (12/31)…started at LT at Indianapolis (9/18) and against Denver (10/2).
2004 (Jacksonville 15/12): Played in 15 games in his first season in Jacksonville and started the final 12 games of the season at left tackle…started and played in his 100th career game at Minnesota (11/28)…did not allow a sack against Chicago (12/12)…helped the Jaguars offense rush for 197 yards at Green Bay (12/19).
2003 (Denver 14/14): Started at left tackle in 14 games, helping the Broncos rush for a franchise-record 2,629 yards, while tying for the fourth-fewest sacks allowed in team history.
2002 (Denver 16/16): Started all 16 games, 15 at left tackle and one at right tackle at Baltimore (9/30)…underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle (1/8/03).
2001 (Atlanta 14/13): Played in 14 games and started 13 at right tackle, missing the Falcons' opener at San Francisco (9/9) and the season finale at St. Louis (1/6/02) because of an ankle sprain…played on special teams only at Indianapolis (12/16) because of an ankle sprain suffered the week before against New Orleans (12/9).
2000 (Atlanta 14/10): Started 10 of the 14 games in which he played at right tackle after his season began slowly because of a training camp knee injury that required arthroscopic surgery (7/24)…returned to practice the week of the season opener against San Francisco (9/3)…did not return to the starting lineup until Week 7 at St. Louis (10/15).
1999 (Atlanta 16/16): Started all 16 games at right tackle for the second consecutive season to begin his career…injured his ankle and missed much of the fourth quarter at St. Louis (10/17), but returned to the starting lineup a week later at Pittsburgh (10/25).
1998 (Atlanta 16/16): Earned the starting right tackle position coming out of training camp as a rookie and started all 16 regular-season games and three postseason games, including Super Bowl XXXIII against Denver (1/31/99)…helped open holes for NFC rushing champion Jamal Anderson, who rushed for 1,846 yards and posted 12 100-yard games on the season…became the first Falcons rookie to start all 16 games since Lincoln Kennedy in 1993 and just the fourth player in NFL history to start all 19 games (regular and postseason) in his rookie season.
COLLEGE: Three-year starter as both a right and left tackle at San Diego State, playing in 31 career games…lined up at defensive end as a freshman, but was moved to the offensive line as a starter in 1995…averaged 4.4 points per game for the Aztecs' basketball team…academic prowess allowed him to skip two grades in elementary school and he enrolled at SDSU as a 16-year old freshman.
Appeared with teammate Chester Pitts in a 2008 Super Bowl commercial detailing the pair's college connection that Salaam encouraged Pitts to tryout at San Diego State…two-time all-league and second- team All-Metro choice during his three year career as a two-way lineman at Florin High School in Sacramento, Calif.…was also a standout on the basketball team and earned two Bronze Panther academic awards…brother played on the defensive line for legendary coach Eddie Robinson at Grambling State and his father was a basketball player at South Carolina…he and his mother, Dr. Malikah Salaam, head up the EMS Foundation, which helps underprivileged children further their education…born Ephraim Mateen Salaam in Chicago, Ill.
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