American football player (born 1962)
American football player
Aubrey Derrod Matthews (born September 15, 1962) is a former professional football player in the National Football League (NFL).
Career
Matthews, a wide receiver from Delta State University and a junior college transfer from Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College, was undrafted, but played 11 NFL seasons for the Atlanta Falcons, the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions.[1] He began his professional football career with the Jacksonville Bulls of the USFL.[2] He was inducted into the Delta State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2004[3] and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Hall of Fame in 2023.[4]
NFL career statistics
Regular season
| Year
|
Team
|
Games
|
Receiving
|
| GP |
GS |
Rec |
Yds |
Avg |
Lng |
TD
|
| 1986 |
ATL
|
4 |
0 |
1 |
25 |
25.0 |
25 |
0
|
| 1987 |
ATL
|
12 |
6 |
32 |
537 |
16.8 |
57 |
3
|
| 1988 |
ATL
|
4 |
0 |
5 |
64 |
12.8 |
21 |
0
|
| GNB
|
7 |
2 |
15 |
167 |
11.1 |
25 |
2
|
| 1989 |
GNB
|
13 |
3 |
18 |
200 |
11.1 |
25 |
0
|
| 1990 |
DET
|
13 |
6 |
30 |
349 |
11.6 |
52 |
1
|
| 1991 |
DET
|
1 |
1 |
3 |
21 |
7.0 |
11 |
0
|
| 1992 |
DET
|
13 |
0 |
9 |
137 |
15.2 |
24 |
0
|
| 1993 |
DET
|
14 |
2 |
11 |
171 |
15.5 |
40 |
0
|
| 1994 |
DET
|
14 |
3 |
29 |
359 |
12.4 |
33 |
3
|
| 1995 |
DET
|
11 |
0 |
4 |
41 |
10.3 |
12 |
0
|
| 1996 |
DET
|
16 |
0 |
3 |
41 |
13.7 |
21 |
0
|
|
122 |
23 |
160 |
2,112 |
13.2 |
57 |
9
|
Playoffs
| Year
|
Team
|
Games
|
Receiving
|
| GP |
GS |
Rec |
Yds |
Avg |
Lng |
TD
|
| 1991 |
DET
|
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
0 |
0
|
| 1993 |
DET
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
0 |
0
|
| 1994 |
DET
|
1 |
0 |
3 |
36 |
12.0 |
22 |
0
|
| 1995 |
DET
|
1 |
0 |
7 |
73 |
10.4 |
23 |
0
|
|
5 |
1 |
10 |
109 |
10.9 |
23 |
0
|
References
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