Global InformationKanavis McGhee information
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| Position: | Linebacker Defensive end | ||||
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| Born: | October 4, 1968 Houston, Texas, U.S. | ||||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||
| Weight: | 257 lb (117 kg) | ||||
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| High school: | Wheatley (Houston, Texas) | ||||
| College: | Colorado | ||||
| NFL draft: | 1991 / Round: 2 / Pick: 55 | ||||
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Kanavis McGhee (born October 4, 1968) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker and defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He is a former defensive linemen coach with the Amsterdam Admirals in NFL Europa. He coached as the defensive line coach at the University of Colorado-Boulder in Boulder, Colorado. He is currently the head coach and athletic coordinator at Sterling High School in Houston, Texas.
McGhee was a business student while attending the University of Colorado. He studied business with an emphasis in marketing.
McGhee attended Phillis Wheatley High School in Houston and played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes. During his career at the University of Colorado at Boulder, McGhee was one of the top defenders in college football, earning him first-team All-Big Eight honors, a finalist nomination for the prestigious Dick Butkus Award and runner-up for the Rotary Lombardi Award. Both awards are given annually to top linebackers in college football.
McGhee was selected in the second round (55th overall) of the 1991 NFL draft, as defensive end by the New York Giants, where he played for three seasons until he suffered a left knee injury in August 1993 and the Giants released him in May 1994.[1] After this he joined the Cincinnati Bengals as free agent before returning to his hometown to play with the Houston Oilers for the season of 1995.
McGhee gained coaching experience while serving as head coach of Ross Shaw Sterling High School in Houston, Texas. In 2006, he spent the season with the Amsterdam Admirals as defensive assistant, participating in the NFL Europa coaching program. In 2007 McGhee returned for a second season and tutored the Admirals' defensive linemen.
McGhee worked as a teacher at Challenge Early College High School in Houston, Texas. In 2010 he returned to Colorado as defensive line assistant under Jon Embree.
McGhee has two sons, Davyon McGhee, who played for Kansas State University, also as linebacker, and Kendall Gregory-McGhee, who played for the University of Minnesota as a defensive end.
- ^ "1991 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved May 7, 2023.