Leo Everett Lewis III (born September 17, 1956) is a former professional
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 ...
player who played
wide receiver for eleven seasons for the
Minnesota Vikings
The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. Founded in 1960 as an expansi ...
and
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (A ...
. He is the son of
College Football Hall of Fame and
Canadian Football Hall of Fame running back
Leo Lewis. After retiring from active play, Lewis held the position of director of player development for the Vikings from 1992 to 2005. At the same time, Lewis wrote, edited and published the Vikings' player and alumni newsletter.
In 2023, he was named King Boreas for the Saint Paul Winter Carnival.
Leo Lewis graduated from
David H. Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri and stayed locally to attend college at the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...
. Dr. Lewis worked for the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
as the associate athletics director for student-athlete development from 2005 to 2014.
References
External links
ProFootballArchives stats
1956 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Columbia, Missouri
Hickman High School alumni
American football wide receivers
American football return specialists
Missouri Tigers football players
Minnesota Vikings players
Cleveland Browns players
Calgary Stampeders players
Hamilton Tiger-Cats players
Ed Block Courage Award recipients
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