WALL, Texas (KLST/KSAN) — A long-time Wall, Texas resident, Angelo State football participant and later NFL linebacker misplaced his life on Friday, April 22 after a single-vehicle roll-over.
Texas Department of Transportation Investigators says that Clayton Weishuhn, 64, had tried to over-correct his car after drifting right into a ditch on Mikulik Road. This over-correction, situated 4.3-miles northwest of San Angelo, brought about the car to flip.
Weishuhn started his football career in a small 2A division faculty in Wall, Texas when he entered junior excessive.
Under the management of Coach Warren Townley, the Wall Hawks misplaced their 13-game profitable streak to the Seagraves Eagles throughout Weishuuhn’s senior yr. This semifinals playoff loss had wrapped up Weishuhn’s highschool football career.
“You know it’s a dream you try to live out. Not all get to do it,” Weishuhn mentioned throughout an interview with Concho Valley Homepage workers in 2015. “The good Lord blessed me with the ability to go play and advance.”
From 1978 to 1981 Weishuhn turned in his inexperienced and white uniform for the blue and gold uniform of Angelo State.
During his freshman yr, the ASU football workforce gained the NAIA championship after the program’s solely undefeated season.
As his faculty career continued, so did his expertise as an athlete. According to the Angelo State Hall of Honor, Weishuhn was a two-time All-American throughout his years at the college. He was additionally the two-time J.V. Sikes Oustanding LSC Lineman of the Year winner for the 1980-1981 season and was named the first-team All-LSC in spite of everything three seasons.
By the finish of his career at Angelo State Weishuhn was the all-time main tackler with 523 stops, 173 of which got here from his ultimate season in 1981. Weishuhn nonetheless holds the report at Angelo State for his 523 career stops.
After graduating from ASU, Weishuhn was drafted into the NFL in the third spherical. The Wall legend performed for the New England Patriots from 1982 to 1986.
“Luckily I was drafted and went and played six years in the NFL so I’m living a dream,” Weishuhn shared in 2015.
While taking part in for the Patriots as a Linebacker, Weishuhn received an opportunity to expertise the Super Bowl in 1985. However, Weishuhn had suffered a knee harm that stored him out of the season.
“It was just almost magical to the fact that we got in as a wild card team and then to go and win all of the games on the road and go to the Super Bowl,” Weishuhn mentioned.
“I know people that played 15 years and they never even got a smell of a Super Bowl,” Weishuhn defined. “Some of them never even the playoffs and you know they were good players or they wouldn’t have been there.”