Tom Crabtree life and biography

Tom Crabtree(25) is an American football tight end for the Green Bay Packers of the NFL.

Career:
Re-signed by Green Bay to a reserve/future contract on Jan. 11, 2010... Originally signed to the Packers’ practice squad on Dec. 1, 2009, and spent the final five weeks of the regular season and the playoffs with the organization... Signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as a non-drafted free agent on May 8, 2009... Spent the entire offseason program and training camp with the Chiefs before being waived in the final roster cutdown on Sept. 6... Appeared in all four of Kansas City’s preseason games, making two catches for 19 yards and also registering a tackle on special teams... Signed to the Chiefs’ practice squad on Sept. 7 and spent the first three weeks of the regular season with the team before being released on Sept. 29... A four-year letterman and three-year starter at tight end for Miami, he appeared in 48 games, starting 29 during his career and totaling 40 catches for 329 yards and two TDs... Was also a consistent contributor to the team’s various special teams units and finished his career with 38 special teams tackles... Played in 12 games with nine starts as a senior in 2008, collecting 10 catches for 64 yards and also adding five special teams tackles... Appeared in 13 games with 11 starts as a junior in 2007, and hauled in a career-high 15 catches for 139 yards and a TD... Also made 11 special teams tackles that season... Became a regular starter as a sophomore in 2006, playing in all 12 of the team’s games and starting nine of them... Finished the season with 14 catches for 124 yards and scored his first-career TD vs. Ohio (Nov. 24)... Saw action in all 11 games as a redshirt freshman in 2005 and established himself as a force on special teams early on, forcing two fumbles in the season opener at Ohio State (Sept. 3) and posting a career-high 13 special teams tackles for the season... Redshirted in 2004... Earned a B.S. in secondary education... Prepped at Bloom-Carroll (Carroll, Ohio) High School and earned second-team all-state honors after setting single-season school records with 54 catches and 851 receiving yards his senior year... Played both TE and DE and finished his career with 90 catches for more than 1,300 yards... Also lettered four times in track, participating in various hurdle events for Bloom-Carroll... Uncle, Jim Feucht, also played at Miami and was a three-year letterwinner for the program in the 1970s...

Personal
Enjoys practicing on his electric guitar, playing video games, naming ‘Call of Duty’ as his favorite and watching television, listing The Office and The Mentalist as his favorite shows... Also has two small dogs, a pug, and a Boston terrier... Has vacationed to the mountains in both Colorado and Nevada... Married, wife’s name is Chelsea, and the couple is expecting their first child in November 2010... Splits residence between Columbus, Ohio and Green Bay... Given name Thomas Lewis Crabtree; born in Columbus, Ohio.

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