Scott Studwell is a former professional American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player. He was nicknamed "Stud". Studwell graduated from the University of Illinois

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

, where he starred as a linebacker. He left Illinois ranked second behind Dick Butkus

Dick Butkus

Richard Marvin "Dick" Butkus is a former American football player for the Chicago Bears. He was drafted in 1965 and he is also widely regarded as one of the best and most durable linebackers of all time. Butkus starred as a football player for the University of Illinois and the Chicago Bears. He...

 in career tackles in 1977, and was drafted in the ninth round by the Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...

, for whom he played fourteen seasons from 1977 to 1990.http://bleacherreport.com/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team#/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team/page/8 During that time, he was selected to two Pro Bowls. Studwell is the only Viking to have played with both Jim Marshall

Jim Marshall

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 (1961–1979) & John Randle

John Randle

John Anthony Randle played defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings and the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL. On February 6, 2010 he was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Born in Mumford, Texas, Randle was raised poor, and worked odd jobs when he was young. His brother Ervin Randle played as...

 (1990–2000).http://bleacherreport.com/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team#/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team/page/8 He retired as the Vikings all-time leading tackler with 1,981 in his career and holds team records for single-season tackles with 230 in 1981 and 24 in a game against Detroit in 1985. He was a memember of the of the Vikings 25th and 40th Anniversary season teams and was named one of the 50 greatest Vikings in 2010.).http://bleacherreport.com/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team#/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team/page/8

After a successful career with the Vikings, he moved into their front office and since 2002 he has been the Director of College Scouting which is responsible for all the preparations of the NFL Draft

NFL Draft

The National Football League Draft is an annual event in which the National Football League teams select eligible college football players and it is their most common source of player recruitment. The basic design of the draft is each team is given a position in the drafting order in reverse order...

. Studwell personally scouts the majority of the players the Vikings pursue and spends nearly half of each year on the road.http://bleacherreport.com/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team#/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team/page/8

External links

• http://vikings.scout.com/2/11490.html
• http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=212
• http://www.baltimoreravens.com/uploadedFiles/News/Generic/mg_players2.pdf
• http://www.chicagobears.com/tradition/hof-butkus.asp
• http://www.nfluk.com/features-display.php?id=2110
• http://bleacherreport.com/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team#/articles/577436-minnesota-vikings-all-time-starting-defensive-team/page/8