JAMAL LEWIS

Jamal Lewis helped put Douglass High football back on the state map while rushing for a school-record 4,879 yards and 68 touchdowns in his career at the Atlanta city school. He rushed for 1,924 yards as a junior in 1995 and 1,713 as a senior in 1996. His junior team won a region title and reached the quarterfinals in the highest class, the Astros’ best finish in 17 years. They defeated eventual state champion Southwest DeKalb in the regular season. Lewis was the MVP of the Florida-Georgia All-Star Game as he rushed for 137 yards and two touchdowns. Lewis went on to play at Tennessee, where he rushed for 1,364 yards as a freshman. He finished his college career with 2,677 rushing yards, which still ranks fifth in school history despite playing only three seasons with one cut in half by a knee injury. The Baltimore Ravens selected Lewis as the fifth overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft. In his rookie season, he rushed for 1,364 yards and played a pivotal role in the Ravens' Super Bowl XXXV victory as he rushed for 102 yards in the 34-7 win. In 2003, Lewis became the fifth player to rush for more than 2,000 yards (2,066) in a season. In 2007, he set the NFL single-game rushing record of 296 yards. Lewis retired in 2010 with 10,507 career rushing yards, the most for a former Georgia high school player in NFL history.