Keion Carpenter
Keion Eric Carpenter was an American professional football football position)|safety] who played for the Buffalo Bills and the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League.
Football career
Carpenter played high school football at Woodlawn [High School (Baltimore)|Woodlawn High School] and college football at Virginia [Polytechnic Institute and State University|Virginia Tech] and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Buffalo Bills. He played for the Bills during the 1999, 2000, and 2001 seasons before being traded to the Atlanta Falcons in 2002. Carpenter was injured at the end of the 2003 season, tearing his ACL. Carpenter was also known as one of the few players to have had successful spinal fusion surgery who returned to football, playing for three years after the surgery.Personal life
Carpenter had a wife and four children, three daughters and one son.He was the founder of , a non-profit which specialized in consulting under-privileged families with home ownership.