Bryan Christopher Barker (born June 28, 1964) is a former
American football
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punter in the
National Football League
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(NFL).
Barker last played for the
St. Louis Rams
The St. Louis Rams were a professional American football team of the National Football League (NFL). They played in St. Louis from 1995 to the 2015 season, before moving back to Los Angeles, where the team had played from 1946 to 1994.
The arr ...
in
2005
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. Barker has previously played with the
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division.
The t ...
, the
Philadelphia Eagles
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, the
Jacksonville Jaguars
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, the
Washington Redskins
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, and the
Green Bay Packers
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.
On November 28, 2002, during week 13 of the NFL season against the
Dallas Cowboys
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, Barker experienced a severely broken nose, a subdural hematoma, while playing in a nationally televised game.
Aaron Schatz of statistics site
Football Outsiders
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noted a punt Barker kicked "in 1999 that was just ridiculous, far past any baseline I had ever created. In Week 5, on the road against the
Jets,
arkerpunted the ball from the Jaguars' own 5-yard line to the Jets' 12-yard line, an 83-yard punt
1999 DVOA Ratings and Commentary
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References
External links
St. Louis Rams bio (2005)
1964 births
Living people
American Conference Pro Bowl players
American football punters
Green Bay Packers players
Jacksonville Jaguars players
Kansas City Chiefs players
Miramonte High School alumni
Philadelphia Eagles players
Players of American football from California
Players of American football from Jacksonville, Florida
People from Jacksonville Beach, Florida
People from Orinda, California
Santa Clara Broncos football players
Sportspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area
St. Louis Rams players
Washington Redskins players
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