Happy Birthday Chris Wilson

Keep it cool Chris, we can use you

Please join me and the entire staff of The Curly R in wishing Redskins defensive end Chris Wilson a happy birthday, Chris turns 27 today.

Chris hails from Flint Michigan where he often heard he was too small for football so he developed a philosophy of dominating the man in front of him and letting the rest take care of itself. Chris attended and played football 62 miles away at Northwood University, an NCAA Division II school in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) containing teams like Grand Valley State, Ferris State and Tiffin University. His senior year in 2004, the American Football Coaches Association named Chris an All-America, he was also all-GLIAC that season.

With no interest from the NFL Chris found his way to the Canadian Football League, a summer football league currently in week two of its 2009 season, he signed with the British Columbia Lions and was a member of their 2006 Grey Cup championship team asterisk the Grey Cup is the CFL's Super Bowl. That Lions team was so full of bad asses they broke the Cup after the game (op. cit.).

Chris drew the attention of the Redskins in the 2007 offseason and was signed as a free agent. Since coming to Washington Chris has been a situational player, an undersized pass rushing defensive end with a quick first step. In two seasons with the Redskins Chris has registered 27 tackles and five sacks, that is a pretty good ratio, it would appear the defensive coaching staff knows how to use Chris.

So far this offseason with the departure of Marcus Washington Chris has been in transition to a hybrid position, part strong side linebacker and part pass rushing defensive end (op. cit.), it so happens this is the same position first round draft pick Brian Orakpo has been playing, there is as ever for a role player like Chris a great deal of uncertainty about the future in the NFL. Chris knows this and knows all he can do is dominate the man in front of him. Chris Wilson is a Curly R favorite.

Happy birthday Chris!



Chris Wilson: AP photo from here.