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Claude B. Humphrey (June 29, 1944 – December 3, 2021) was an American professional football player who played as a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles. Humphrey was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014.
Dec 19, 2022 · Claude retired from the NFL just four games into the 1978 NFL campaign. In 2016, Humphrey told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he left at an inopportune moment because the Falcons refused to pay him what he was worth at the time.
Despite playing on a Falcons team that had only three winning seasons during the 10-year span that he played, Humphrey managed to earn first- or second-team All-NFL or All-Pro honors eight times. He was also named first- or second-team All-NFC seven times and was selected to play in six Pro Bowls.
Dec 6, 2021 · Claude Humphrey, the Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end who flattened quarterbacks for 10 N.F.L. seasons with the Atlanta Falcons and three with the Philadelphia Eagles, whom he...
Dec 5, 2021 · Humphrey was selected third overall in the 1968 AFL-NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons out of Tennessee State and was named AP Defensive Rookie of the Year that season. Humphrey played a...
Dec 4, 2021 · Humphrey was a pass-rushing great who played 13 seasons in the NFL with the Falcons and the Eagles. He won AP NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, two first-team All-Pro honors and six Pro Bowls, and was credited with 130 career sacks.
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Dec 4, 2021 · Claude Humphrey, a Hall of Fame defensive end and one of the NFL’s most fearsome pass rushers during the 1970s with the Atlanta Falcons, died Dec. 3 in Memphis. He was 77. The Pro...
