Antonio Dwight Beckham (born October 1, 1978) 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 ...
cornerback
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. He was drafted by the
Tennessee Titans
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in the fourth round of the
2002 NFL Draft
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. He played
college football at
Wisconsin–Stout.
Beckham also played for the
Detroit Lions
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.
Personal life
On January 14, 2019, Beckham found a 48-year-old man outside his house allegedly looking into his daughter's window with a hand down his pants. Beckham then chased the man down, tackled him, and held the alleged "peeping tom" until police arrived.
References
External links
Detroit Lions bioPeeping Tom Incident
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1978 births
Living people
Ocala High School alumni
American football cornerbacks
Detroit Lions players
Tennessee Titans players
Wisconsin–Stout Blue Devils football players
Players of American football from Gainesville, Florida