Beno Bryant (born January 1, 1971) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...

return specialist A return specialist or kick returner is a player on the special teams unit of a gridiron football team who specializes in returning punts and kickoffs. There are few players who are exclusively return specialists; most also play another positio ...

and

running back A running back (RB) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback to rush the ball, to line up as a receiver to catch the ball, and block. The ...

for the

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High school

Bryant attended Susan Miller Dorsey High School, participating in both football and track. In 1989, Bryant set a city record of 46.63 in the 400 meters.

College career

Bryant played at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seat ...

from 1989 to 1993, using a redshirt year in 1992. He holds many of Washington's career return records and was named to the 1990 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team as return specialist. The Seattle Times named Bryant as Washington's #3 special teams player of the Pac-10 era.

Professional career

In 1994, Bryant played in two games for the

. Bryant was drafted in 1996 and played for the Amsterdam Admirals of the

World League of American Football NFL Europe League (simply called NFL Europe and known in its final season as NFL Europa League) was a professional American football league that functioned as the List of developmental and minor sports leagues, developmental minor league of t ...

, and then was drafted in 1997 by the Frankfurt Galaxy.

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College stats as Sports Reference
1971 births Living people American football running backs Amsterdam Admirals players Seattle Seahawks players Washington Huskies football players Players of American football from Los Angeles Susan Miller Dorsey High School alumni {{runningback-1970s-stub