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 with ...

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 position ...

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 American football plays#Offensive terminology, handoffs from the quarterback to Rush (American football)#Offen ...

for the

Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West, which they rejoined in 2002 as ...

High school

Bryant attended

Susan Miller Dorsey High School Susan Miller Dorsey High School is a high school located in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles, California. It is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school serves Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Village, Jefferson Park, West Adams a ...

, 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 Seattle a ...

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 The 1990 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific-10 Conference teams for the 1990 college football season. Offensive selections Quarterbacks *Bill Musgrave, Ore ...

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

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of the

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, 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