Kendrick Dwayne Shedd (born February 14, 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 wi ...

wide receiver in the

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(NFL) who played for the New York Jets, the Chicago Bears, the Oakland Raiders and the

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. He was selected in the fifth round of the

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by the Jets. He also played a season in 1996 on the Barcelona Dragons in the

World League of American Football NFL Europe League (simply called NFL Europe and known in its final season as NFL Europa League) was a professional American football league that functioned as the developmental minor league of the National Football League (NFL). Originally ...

. He played college football at the

University of Northern Iowa The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is a public university in Cedar Falls, Iowa. UNI offers more than 90 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities, Arts, and Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences and gr ...

. In 2009, he was named in a tribute for alumni from the

Missouri Valley Football Conference The Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC), formerly the Gateway Football Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivi ...

who have played in the NFL, as part of the “All-Select NFL Team." Shedd graduated from the Police Academy in 2002 and currently works in law enforcement in

San Leandro San Leandro (Spanish for " St. Leander") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area; between Oakland to the northwest, and Ashland, Castro Valley, and Hayward to the sout ...

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. He is also related to Picasso Nelson.

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Former Raiders player a rookie police officer in San Leandro
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110715113737/http://proathletesonly.com/news/locker-room/former-raiders-player-transitions-to-arresting-career/ Former Raiders Player Transitions To Arresting Career 09/2008]
11 Former Panthers named to MVFC "All-Select NFL Team"Missouri Valley Football Conference Recognizes “All-Select NFL Team”
1971 births Living people American football wide receivers African-American players of American football Northern Iowa Panthers football players Barcelona Dragons (NFL Europe) players Oakland Raiders players Washington Redskins players Players of American football from Davenport, Iowa 21st-century African-American sportspeople 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{widereceiver-1970s-stub