Sulaiman "The Bomb" Ismail is an American former

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player. He played collegiately as a walk-on at the

University of Texas-El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a public research university in El Paso, Texas, United States. Founded in 1913 as the State School of Mines and Metallurgy, it is the third oldest academic component of the University of Texas System ...

in 1995. On February 14, 2001, he signed a three-year contract with the

Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 Arena Football League season, 1987 season, making it the third longest-runnin ...

New York Dragons The New York Dragons were a professional arena football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Dragons participated in the Arena Football League's (AFL) National Conference as a member of the Eastern Division (AFL), Eastern Division. ...

, but was waived soon after. He was claimed by the Greensboro Prowlers of the

af2 The AF2 (often styled as af2, and short for arenafootball2) was the Arena Football League's developmental league; it was founded in 1999 and played its first season in 2000. Like its parent AFL, the AF2 played using the same arena football r ...

on April 4, but placed on the inactive list on April 26. Sulaiman has a black belt in

Shotokan is a style of karate, developed from various martial arts by Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957) and his son Gigo (Yoshitaka) Funakoshi (1906–1945). Gichin Funakoshi was born in Okinawa and is widely credited with popularizing "karate do" thro ...

Karate (; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ), also , is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tī'' in Okinawan) un ...

judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...

and

jujutsu Jujutsu ( , or ), also known as jiu-jitsu and ju-jitsu (both ), is a Japanese martial art and a system of close combat that can be used in a defensive or offensive manner to kill or subdue one or more weaponless or armed and armored opponent ...

. He has had three professional boxing matches with a record of 1–2–0 and five amateur MMA matches with a record of 2–3–0.

Personal life

Sulaiman is the younger brother of former NFL wide receivers Raghib "Rocket" Ismail and Qadry "Missile" Ismail as well as the uncle of Qadry's son, Baltimore Ravens receiver Qadir Ismail.

References

Dragons Sign "The Bomb," Youngest of NFL's Ismail Brothers

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American football wide receivers UTEP Miners football players Players of American football from Pennsylvania 20th-century American sportsmen New York Dragons players Greensboro Prowlers players {{widereceiver-1970s-stub