Keith Poole
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Position:Wide receiver
Personal information
Born: (1974-06-18) June 18, 1974
San Jose, California, U.S.
Height:6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:188 lb (85 kg)
Career information
High school:Clovis (Clovis, California)
College:Arizona State
NFL Draft:1997 / Round: 4 / Pick: 116
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Receptions:96
Receiving yards:1,734
Receiving touchdowns:11
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

Keith Robert Strohmaier Poole (born June 18, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints and Denver Broncos from 1997 to 2001. Poole was a stand out receiver at Clovis High School in Clovis, California. He played college football for Arizona State Sun Devils, earning second-team All-American honors in 1996. That season, he and quarterback Jake Plummer helped lead the Sun Devils to the Rose Bowl only to lose to Ohio State 20-17.

Poole was selected by the Saints in the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft.[1] In his five-year NFL career, Poole caught 96 receptions for 1,734 yards and 11 touchdowns.

In 1998, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery for attacking a man with a golf club, and was sentenced to two years of probation.[2][3] He was fined $4,500, according to the Saints and NFL.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "1997 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  2. ↑ "Collins Apologizes, Makes Promise". Los Angeles Times. The Associated Press. November 4, 1998.
  3. ↑ "Hills, Heroin & Weapons Charges". CBS News. December 29, 1998.
  4. ↑ Freeman, Mike (9 January 2000). "PRO FOOTBALL; Stains From the Police Blotter Leave N.F.L. Embarrassed". New York Times. Retrieved 5 December 2008.


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