Otto Graham Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Otto Everett Graham, Jr. (December 6, 1921 – December 17, 2003) was an All-America Football Conference and National Football League quarterback who played for the Cleveland Browns. Graham is considered by many to be one of the most powerful players of his era, having led the Browns to seven league championship games between 1946 and 1955. The Browns went 114 wins, 20 loses, and four ties with Graham at quarterback, including a 9–3 win–loss record in the playoffs. Despite the fact that most of Graham’s statistics records have been broken in the contemporary era, he still retains the NFL record for career average yards gained per throw attempt with nine. With a career winning percentage of 0.814, he also holds the record for the best career winning percentage for an NFL starting quarterback. Long-time Graham’s friend and New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner famously described him as “as great a quarterback as there ever was.” Graham was born in Waukegan, Illinois, to parents 

who were both music professors. He was admitted to Northwestern University on a basketball scholarship in 1940, but football quickly became his primary sport. Graham played for the Rochester Royals of the National Basketball League in 1946, winning the league championship that year after a brief tour in the military at the end of World War II. Graham was signed by Cleveland’s coach, Paul Brown, to play for the Browns, where he excelled. Graham coached collegiate teams in the College All-Star Game after retiring from football in 1955, and later became the head football coach at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. He spent three seasons as the head coach of the Washington Redskins after seven years at the academy. He returned to the Coast Guard Academy after resigning as athletic director, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. In 1965, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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