Angelo State University football legend Clayton Weishuhn, who played in the NFL with the New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers, was reportedly killed in a motor vehicle accident near his hometown of Wall on Friday, April 22, 2022.
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After a stellar career at Wall High School, Weishuhn became an All-American linebacker at ASU. His Rams’ career lasted from 1978-81, and Weishuhn was selected as the Lone Star Conference Lineman of the Year in 1980 and 1981.
He helped the Rams win the 1978 NAIA championship, which still stands as the only national championship that ASU has won in football.
Weishuhn was drafted in Round 3 of the 1982 NFL Draft by the Patriots.
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Despite the fact that New England has won six Super Bowl championships since Weishuhn’s playing days, his single-season franchise record of 229 tackles set in 1983 still stands today.
The 6-foot-2, 220-pounder suffered a severe knee injury in the first week of the 1984 season and he has sidelined the rest of the season and all of the 1985 campaign.
In their first Super Bowl appearance, the Patriots lost to the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XX after the 1985 season, but Weishuhn was injured and wasn’t able to play.
Weishuhn’s former head coach at ASU, the late Jim Hess, said in that 2015 article, “Well son of a gun. I guess he really could play. Holy cow. I didn’t know any of that. I just knew he was the best I ever coached.”
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