College career. Johnson attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he played for head coach Chan Gailey's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team from 2004 to 2006.

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He knows his Biletnikoff Trophy, which he won at Georgia Tech as college football's top receiver in 2006, is down in Atlanta, where the oldest of his two kids, Caleb, lives and where Calvin owns a home.

Georgia Tech's first three Black students - trailblazers Ford C. Greene, Ralph A. Long Jr., and Lawrence Williams - began taking classes in September 1961.

Sixty years ago this September, Ford C. Greene, Ralph A. Long Jr., and Lawrence Williams became the first Black students to enroll at Georgia Tech, making the school the first public university in the Deep South to integrate peacefully, without a court order.

Richard Sligh At 7'0", Richard Sligh is, officially, the tallest player in NFL history. He was drafted in the 10th round of the 1967 Common Draft by the Oakland Raiders. He would last only eight games in his 1967 rookie season but was a reserve when the Raiders went to Super Bowl II.

Johnson claims that he wanted to finish his career with another team, but that the Lions wouldn't let him leave. “We asked would they release me or let me go to another team,” Johnson recently told WoodwardSports.com. “They wouldn't.”

2012-2019. Calvin Johnson signed a 7 year, $113,450,000 contract with the Detroit Lions, including a $16,000,000 signing bonus, $53,250,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $16,207,143.

Savannah State University Savannah State University (SSU) is the first public historically black college or university in the state of Georgia and the first institution of higher learning in the city of Savannah.

Ware High School In 1880, at the request of African-American Augustans and the recommendation of the outgoing superintendent, Ware High School became the first public high school for African Americans in Georgia.

At 7 ft 0 in, Sligh is the tallest player in professional American football history.

In high school, Aaron Gibson weighed in at 440 pounds and holds the National Football League record for being the heaviest player at 410 pounds. After he became a 1998 Consensus All-American at Wisconsin, the Detroit Lions made the offensive tackle their first-round pick in the 1999 NFL draft.