Dermontti Dawson

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dermontti Farra Dawson (born June 17, 1965 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a former American football center in the National Football League. He played his entire career with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He attended Bryan Station High School in Lexington, where he was a nationally-ranked track and field performer in the discus and shot put. During his junior year, he joined the football team as a favor to his friends, where he was successful as a guard. Although he had still planned to attend college on a track scholarship, recruiters at the University of Kentucky convinced him to attend on a football scholarship. Dawson was picked by the Steelers in the second round of the 1988 NFL draft, and played on the offensive line alongside Hall of Famer Mike Webster, from whom he took over the role of starting center the next year.