Raymond Tucker Chester was an 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...

 tight end

Tight end

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Chester was drafted in the first round of the 1970 NFL Draft

1970 NFL Draft

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 by the Oakland Raiders

Oakland Raiders

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. He played twelve years in the NFL for the Raiders and Colts, and made four Pro Bowl squads. He also started on the Raiders Super Bowl XV

Super Bowl XV

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 winning team.

He played college football at Morgan State University

Morgan State University

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 in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1983, Raymond Chester came out of retirement and played a single season for Oakland Invaders

Oakland Invaders

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 of the USFL making the USFL's all-League team as well as The Sporting News

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's USFL All-Star Team.