Ben Wilkerson
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Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.
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| Title | Assistant offensive line coach | ||||
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| Born | November 22, 1982 Port Arthur, Texas, U.S. | ||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||
| Listed weight | 300 lb (136 kg) | ||||
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| Position | Center (No. 64, 67) | ||||
| High school | Hemphill (Hemphill, Texas) | ||||
| College | LSU (2001–2004) | ||||
| NFL draft | 2005: undrafted | ||||
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Benjamin Lorenza Wilkerson (born November 22, 1982) is an American football coach and former player who is the assistant offensive line coach for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played as a center in the NFL for four seasons from 2005 to 2008. He played college football for the LSU Tigers, earning consensus All-American honors, and winning the Rimington Trophy.[a] He signed with the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2005, and also played for the Atlanta Falcons, and the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League (UFL).
Wilkerson was born in Port Arthur, Texas. He graduated from Hemphill High School in Hemphill, Texas.
College career
He received an athletic scholarship to attend Louisiana State University, where he played for coach Nick Saban's LSU Tigers football team from 2001 to 2004. As a junior in 2003, he was a member of the Tigers' SEC Championship team that defeated the Oklahoma Sooners 21–14 to win the BCS National Championship. Following his senior 2004 season, he was recognized as a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection and a consensus first-team All-American, and was awarded the Rimington Trophy as the best college football center in the country.
Professional career
Wilkerson was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2005 by the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals, and he was a member of the Bengals from 2005 to 2006, but appeared in only three games during the 2006 season. He also played for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons from 2007 to 2008, and appeared in twenty-nine games off the bench for the Falcons.[1]
He was a member of the United Football League's Florida Tuskers for part of the 2009 season.