Navarro College

Ray Jacobs, an All-American in football and all-conference in track and field, is Navarro's highest professional draft pick of the school's nine in the program's 74-year history. The three-time All-Lone Star Conference defensive lineman and two-time NAIA All-American at Howard Payne University was taken with the first round's seventh pick by the American Football League's Houston Oilers. Jacobs, who played at Corsicana High School and Navarro College, started 25 of the 79 professional games in which he played for the Denver Broncos (1963-66), Miami Dolphins (1967-68) and Boston Patriots (1969). Despite limitations by multiple injuries, he led Miami tacklers in 1968 (107). Jacobs retired and became Texas high school football coach at Mabank, and later, a defensive coach at Corsicana. High School, Navarro College and Ranger College.