Abram Elam

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Abram Elam
Free Agent
Safety
Personal information
Date of birth: (1981-10-15) October 15, 1981 (age 30)
Place of birth: Palm Beach, Florida
Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Weight: 207 lb (94 kg)
Career information
College: Kent State
Undrafted in 2005
Debuted in 2006 for the Dallas Cowboys
Career history
Roster status: Active
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics as of Week 14, 2011
Tackles 360
Sacks 5.0
INTs 3
Stats at NFL.com

Abram "Abe" Elam (born October 15, 1981 in Palm Beach, Florida) is an American football safety for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played college football at Notre Dame and Kent State.

He has also played for the New York Jets and Cleveland Browns.

Personal

Since 1987, three of Elam's siblings were shot to death. His older brother, Donald Runner, was fatally shot in 1987. His sister, Christina Elam, was killed in 1999. On May 9, 2008, his older brother Donald Elam was fatally shot; at age 14, Donald Elam was once the youngest person ever indicted for murder in Palm Beach County, though he was later acquitted.[1] On December 1, 2011 Abram's father died, and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones let Abram use his private plane to go to Florida to be with his family.

References

2010 Cleveland Browns Media Guide

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