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Ladd Herzeg

American football executive

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ6469293 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ladd Herzeg is an American professional football executive who was the general manager of the Houston Oilers in the 1980s, under the ownership of Bud Adams. In three years with the Oilers, from 1982 to 1984, he drafted and/or signed three Pro Football Hall of Famers; Mike Munchak, a first round draft choice in 1982, Bruce Matthews, another first round draft choice in 1983 and Warren Moon, a 1984 Canadian Football League signing.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 1984, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ladd, Herzeg and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ladd Herzeg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.