Lakei Heimuli
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Position: | Running back | ||||||
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Born: | Vavaʻu, Tonga | June 24, 1965||||||
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High school: | Kahuku (Kahuku, Hawaii) | ||||||
College: | BYU | ||||||
NFL Draft: | 1987 / Round: 9 / Pick: 249 | ||||||
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Lakei Heimuli (born June 24, 1965) is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played one season with the Chicago Bears (1987).
Heimuli played college football as a running back at Brigham Young University (BYU) and lettered from 1984 to 1986. He rushed for 966 yards in 1986 as a senior and is second in all-time rushing yards with 2,710 yards. Heimuli is third all time in total touchdowns with 32 (30 rushing and 2 receiving. He attended Kahuku High School in Hawaii. He is distinguished as being the first Tongan to play in the National Football League.[1]
Two of his five children have also played college football. Helam Heimuli played at Weber State University and Houston Heimuli is currently a fullback at Brigham Young University[2][3] after completing his bachelor's degree at Stanford University.
References[]
- ^ DataBase Football Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ @byufootball (January 5, 2022). "Coach Sitake has announced the mid-year additions of graduate transfer running backs @chris_br0oks26 from Cal and @HHeimuli from Stanford. Both players have enrolled for winter semester at BYU" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Houston Heimuli transfers from Stanford to BYU". 247Sports. 5 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- 1965 births
- Living people
- American football running backs
- BYU Cougars football players
- Chicago Bears players
- National Football League replacement players
- People from Vavaʻu
- Tongan players of American football
- Tongan emigrants to the United States
- American football running back, 1960s birth stubs