Elfrid Payton (Canadian football)

Elfrid Payton
Date of birth (1967-09-22) September 22, 1967
Place of birth Gretna, Louisiana
Career information
CFL status International
Position(s) DE
Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight 245 lb (111 kg)
College Grambling State
Career history
As player
19911993 Winnipeg Blue Bombers
1994 Shreveport Pirates
19941995 Baltimore Stallions
19961999 Montreal Alouettes
2000 Winnipeg Blue Bombers
2001 Toronto Argonauts
20022003 Edmonton Eskimos
2004 Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Career highlights and awards
CFL All-Star 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002
CFL East All-Star 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001
CFL West All-Star 2002
Awards 1993 James P. McCaffrey Trophy
2002 CFL Most Outstanding Defensive Player
2002 Dr. Beattie Martin Trophy
Career stats

Elfrid Payton, Sr. (born September 22, 1967) is a former all-star gridiron football player in the Canadian Football League. Payton graduated from Grambling State University.

Career

Payton played with seven different teams over the course of his career.

1991 to 1993 – Payton played with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, where he was an all-star and James P. McCaffrey Trophy winner in 1993.

1994 – Payton started the season with the Shreveport Pirates, but finished with the Grey Cup finalist Baltimore CFLers, registering twenty seven tackles and four sacks.

1995 – Payton had eighteen sacks in an all-star season with the Grey Cup champion Baltimore Stallions.

1996 to 1999 – Payton had three all-star seasons (1997, 1998 and 1999) with the Montreal Alouettes.

2000 – Payton returned to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

2001 – Payton was an all-star with the Toronto Argonauts.

2002 to 2003 – Payton played with the Edmonton Eskimos, where he won the CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award and was an all star in 2002, and won a Grey Cup in 2003.

2004 – Payton returned to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Payton played in 189 total regular season games, seventeen playoff games, and four Grey Cups. His 154 career sacks are the 2nd highest career total in CFL history.

Post-career

In 2010 Payton was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.[1]

Payton's son, also named Elfrid, was a basketball player at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who won the 2014 Lefty Driesell Award, and now plays for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association.

References

  1. "Ham, Payton Among Canadian Football Hall Of Famers". TSN. 2 February 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2010.


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