Brandon Lee Frye (born January 23, 1983) 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 wi ...
offensive tackle. He was drafted by the
Houston Texans in the fifth round of the
2007 NFL Draft. He played
college football at
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...
.
Frye also played for the
Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member team of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team p ...
and
Seattle Seahawks.
He currently resides in the Washington, DC metro area.
College career
Frye played
college football for the
Virginia Tech Hokies
The Virginia Tech Hokies are the athletic teams representing the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in intercollegiate athletics. The Hokies participate in the NCAA's Division I Atlantic Coast Conference in 22 v ...
. After playing sparingly his first three seasons, he earned the starting left job at the end of the
2005 season for the
Toyota Gator Bowl against
Louisville
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...
after
Jimmy Martin was injured. He retained the starting job during the
2006 season and started all but two games his final year with the Hokies.
References
External links
Houston Texans bio
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1983 births
Living people
People from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Players of American football from South Carolina
American football offensive tackles
American football offensive guards
Virginia Tech Hokies football players
Houston Texans players
Miami Dolphins players
Seattle Seahawks players