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Position: | Tight end | ||||||
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Born: | Thomasville, Georgia, U.S. | April 16, 1951||||||
Died: | June 3, 2016 Thomasville, Georgia, U.S. | (aged 65)||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 223 lb (101 kg) | ||||||
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College: | Kansas St. | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1974 / Round: 5 / Pick: 109 | ||||||
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Henry Childs (April 16, 1951 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Rams, and the Green Bay Packers. He was a Pro Bowl player in 1979.
Childs was inducted into the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame in 1994.
On June 3, 2016, he had a massive heart attack while driving in his car and was pronounced dead at the age of 65 in Thomasville, Georgia.[1] He was one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),[2] which is caused by repeated hits to the head.[3][4]