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Mike Taylor (offensive tackle)

American football offensive tackle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ14951476 ↗
Source-derived summary

Michael Ray Taylor (May 15, 1945 – November 18, 2015) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL).

College career

Taylor played college football at the University of Southern California and was drafted in the first round (tenth pick overall) of the 1968 NFL/AFL draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Professional career

Taylor played in the National Football League for six seasons.

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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—1945, 2015, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945-05-05. For this dossier, Mike, Taylor and offensive is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mike Taylor (offensive tackle)” 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.