Jeremy Arlo Lincoln (born April 7, 1969) is an

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 ...

cornerback A cornerback (CB) is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in gridiron football. Cornerbacks cover Wide receiver, receivers most of the time, but also blitz and defend against such Play from scrimmage, offensive running plays as sweep ...

who played eight seasons in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

(NFL). He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1992 NFL Draft. Lincoln played football and ran track at

DeVilbiss High School (Toledo, Ohio) Thomas A. DeVilbiss High School was a public high school in Toledo, Ohio from 1931 to June 1991. It was part of the Toledo Public School District, serving students from the DeVeaux, Elmhurst, Grove Patterson, Longfellow, Mayfair, McKinley, Nath ...

, where he was part of the 1987 Ohio High School state championship track team before attending the University of Tennessee. He is most famous for the blocked field goal attempt in the last seconds of the Vols' "Miracle in South Bend" victory against Notre Dame where he blocked the field goal with his butt.

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1969 births Living people Players of American football from Toledo, Ohio Tennessee Volunteers football players American football cornerbacks Chicago Bears players St. Louis Rams players Seattle Seahawks players New York Giants players Detroit Lions players {{defensiveback-1960s-stub