Leon Lett
A seventh-round defensive tackle with three Super Bowl rings.
Leon Lett is a former NFL defensive tackle who spent 10 of his 11 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, who drafted him in the seventh round in 1991 out of Emporia State. He won three Super Bowls and made the Pro Bowl in 1994 and 1998, and he later coached the Cowboys' defensive line as an assistant from 2011 to 2022.
Quick Facts
- Position
- Defensive tackle
- Number
- 78, 94
- Born
- 12 October 1968
- Birthplace
- Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
- Draft year
- 1991
- Draft round
- 7
- Draft pick
- 173
- High school
- Fairhope (Fairhope, Alabama)
Lore & Background
Lett grew up in Fairhope, Alabama. A low ACT score kept him from taking up a scholarship at Auburn, so he went to Hinds Community College in Mississippi, then to Emporia State in Kansas, which he helped to its first NAIA national championship game in 1989.
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