Former Oilers running back Gary Brown, who also coached with Dallas Cowboys, dead at 52
Gary Brown - who played five seasons with the Houston Oilers, including rushing for more than 1,000 yards in 1993 – died at the age of 52 Sunday after being treated for cancer the past several years.
After retiring in 1999, Brown jumped into coaching and spent time as the running backs coach for the Cleveland Browns and Dallas Cowboys. He spent last season as the running backs coach at the University of Wisconsin, but was undergoing treatment at the end of the year and was unable to travel on the Badgers trip to the Las Vegas Bowl.
Brown was first diagnosed with cancer about 10 years ago when it was found in his colon and liver while he was coaching with the Cleveland Browns. After chemotherapy and surgery, he was declared cancer-free. He was diagnosed with cancer again after the 2019 season when doctors found a malignant tumor near his pancreas when he was coaching with the Dallas Cowboys. Brown took a year off from coaching before joining the University of Wisconsin.
The Oilers drafted Brown in the eighth round out of Penn State in 1991. After not playing much in his first two seasons and not playing at all in the first six games of the 1993 season, Brown finally broke through. Despite playing in the Oilers’ pass-heavy run-and-shoot offense, he rushed for 1,002 yards in the final 10 games of the season. Included in that stretch were back-to-back huge games, with 166 rushing yards at Cincinnati followed by a 194-yard game at Cleveland the next week.
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