Kerry Cash
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| Position: | Tight end | ||||||||
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| Born: | August 7, 1969 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 245 lb (111 kg) | ||||||||
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| College: | Texas | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1991: 5th round, 125th pick | ||||||||
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Kerry Lenard Cash (born August 7, 1969) is an American former NFL football player. He played tight end in NFL for six years for the Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins, Oakland Raiders and Chicago Bears. Before that he was an All-American college football player at the University of Texas.[2]
Early Life
[edit]Cash was born in San Antonio, TX. He has a twin brother, Keith Cash, who played football with him in middle school, high school and at Texas and who also played in the NFL.
Keith and Kerry Cash attended Pease Middle School in San Antonio, where they won the district championship in football, basketball, and track in 1982–1983.
As high school athletes, Keith and Kerry Cash led Oliver Wendell Holmes High School in San Antonio, Texas, to the 5A state semi-finals in football against Houston Yates in 1985 and to the 5A Texas state championship game in basketball in 1987.
Cash, his brother and his teammate Johnny Walker all signed with Texas.[3]
College career
[edit]Cash played tight end at Texas from 1987 to 1990.[4]
During his freshman year, he played in 5 games, helping the Longhorns to win the 1987 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.
He became a starter during the next season. Against Oklahoma he caught an 80-yard pass from Bret Stafford which was the longest reception not to go for a touchdown, and the 6th longest reception, in school history at the time.[5]
In his senior year, he helped Texas to win the Southwest Conference Championship and to stay in the National Championship hunt through the whole season culminating in the 1991 Cotton Bowl loss to Miami. He had 104 yards receiving against Texas Tech that year, which at the time was 3rd best single-game performance by a tight end in school history.[5] For his performance, he was named to the Newspaper Enterprise Association's All-American team, was a UPI All-American Team Honorable Mention and was 2nd team all-Southwest Conference.[6]
He left Texas with 71 receptions, 10 receiving touchdowns and 979 receiving yards. He set the school record for career receptions and touchdown receptions by a tight end, both of which were surpassed by Pat Fitzgerald in 1996; and had what was at the time the 2nd most receiving yards by a tight end in school history.[5]
When his senior year was over, he played in the 1991 East-West Shrine Bowl.[4]
Pro Career
[edit]Indianapolis Colts
[edit]Cash was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the fifth round of the 1991 NFL draft and then signed.[7]
After seeing playing time, and making one catch, in the first 4 games of the 1991 season, he went onto the injured reserve for the remainder of the season after having ankle surgery.[8][9]
In a 1992 preseason game, the Colts played against Keith Cash's Chiefs marking the first time identical twins played against each other in an NFL game. On one special teams play they even lined up across from one another. Later they both agreed that Keith had gotten the better of Kerry on that play.[10] The 1992 season was Cash's most productive, racking up 43 receptions for 521 yards and 3 touchdowns.[11]
In 1993 he again had 43 receptions for 3 touchdowns but only had 402 yards that season.[11]
He became a free agent at the end of the 1993 season and re-signed with the Colts in the summer.[8] He became a smaller part of the offence that year, seeing less than half as many targets and getting only 16 receptions for 190 yards and 1 touchdown. He again became a free agent at the end of the season but would not re-sign with the Colts.
Oakland Raiders
[edit]Cash signed with the Raiders in March 1995. He played in all 16 games, starting 10 and caught 40 passes for 254 yards and 2 touchdowns. He was released by the Raiders in July 1996.[8][11]
Miami Dolphins
[edit]A few days after being released by the Raiders, Cash was signed by the Dolphins, but the Dolphins cut him during training camp.[8]
Chicago Bears
[edit]Late in the 1996 season, Cash was signed by the Bears. He played in their last three games that season, started the final two, and caught 4 passes for 42 yards.[11] He became a free agent in February 1997, was re-signed by the Bears 5 weeks later and then released by the Bears at the end of April.[8]
Later life
[edit]Since 2012, Cash has worked as a Precious Metals Specialist with the United States Gold Bureau in Austin, Texas.[12] He has three sons. His eldest son, Isaiah - who's mother was captain and MVP of the Texas Longhorn Soccer Team in the 1990s - plays football for Virginia Tech after transferring from Sam Houston State University where he played football and ran track.[13] In 2020 he won the gold medal in the long jump at the Southland Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships with a program record mark of 7.44 meters (24-5) and also set the program record in the long jump outdoors with a mark of 7.45 (24-5.5).[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Transactions". NFL.com. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
- ^ "Kerry Cash Statistics". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved February 10, 2009.
- ^ "College football: Runners, Big Linemen Top Recruiting List". January 31, 1987. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
- ^ a b "Texas Football History and Honors" (PDF). Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ a b c "Texas Football Record Book" (PDF). Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ Shain, Jeff (December 11, 1990). "Detmer, Notre Dame lead All-American team". The Bryan Times. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
- ^ "1991 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Kerry Cash Transactions - Pro Football Archives". Retrieved June 5, 2025.
- ^ "Vote of Confidence to Meyer". The Sentinel. September 24, 1991. Retrieved June 5, 2025.
- ^ Ford, Mark (2014). A History of NFL Preseason and Exhibition Games. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 64. ISBN 9781442238930.
- ^ a b c d "Kerry Cash". Pro Football Reference. Retrieved June 5, 2025.
- ^ "Former NFL Star Sees Future in Gold". Archived from the original on March 17, 2017.
- ^ "Isaiah Cash". Retrieved June 6, 2025.
- ^ "Isaiah Cash". Retrieved June 6, 2025.