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Steve Wright
Date of birth: (1942-07-17) July 17, 1942 (age 82)
Place of birth: Louisville, Kentucky
Career information
Position(s): Offensive tackle
College: Alabama
AFL Draft: 1964 / Round: 8 / Pick: 59
(By the New York Jets)
NFL Draft: 1964 / Round: 5 / Pick: 69
Organizations
 As player:
1964-1967
1968-1969
1970
1971
1972
Green Bay Packers
New York Giants
Washington Redskins
Chicago Bears
St. Louis Cardinals
Playing stats at NFL.com

Stephen Thomas Wright (born July 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for five different teams. He also played for the Chicago Fire of the World Football League in 1974. He played college football at the University of Alabama. He never started a game for Alabama, but was drafted in the fifth round of the 1964 draft, by the Green Bay Packers. Wright played in 101 games in nine season in the NFL, but never started.

He is the author of I'd Rather be Wright: Memoirs of an Itinerant Tackle (1974, with William Gildea and Kenneth Turan), a fly-on-the wall look at the pro football world of the late 60s and early 70s.

In 1969, Wright was the model for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, sculpted by Daniel Bennett Schwartz.[1][2]

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