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GARY BAXTER, Tyler, Texas (Football, 1997-2000) – 2018

Still ranked as Baylor football’s all-time leader with 44 career pass breakups, Baxter was a three-time All-Big 12 pick who earned first-team honors as a senior when he had 96 tackles, 11 pass breakups and forced two fumbles.

As a sophomore in 1998, he shut out All-American receiver Torry Holt of North Carolina State in the fourth quarter and then blocked a field goal with four seconds left to preserve a 33-30 victory over the then-25^th-rranked Wolfpack.

A second-round draft pick by the Baltimore Ravens in 2001, Baxter played seven years in the NFL with the Ravens and Cleveland Browns. His career took a major blow on Oct. 22, 2006, when he tore the patellar tendons in both knees during a game against the Denver Broncos.

Baxter, who was also named to the Tyler ISD Hall of Fame in 2018, gave back to Baylor by funding the computer lab in the Simpson Athletics and Academic Building. Along with NFL Hall of Famer Earl Campbell, Baxter started the Project Rose Research Institute for Sports Science.

HOF profile: https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/12/football-fulfilling-his-hall-of-fame-dreams.aspx