Tiki Barber
Barber at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007 | |||||||||||||||
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| Position | Running back | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | April 7, 1975 Roanoke, Virginia, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 205 lb (93 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| High school | Cave Spring (Roanoke) | ||||||||||||||
| College | Virginia (1993–1996) | ||||||||||||||
| NFL draft | 1997: 2nd round, 36th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
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Atiim Kiambu "Tiki" Barber Sr. (/ˈtiːki/; born April 7, 1975) is an American former professional football player who spent his entire 10-year career as a running back for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Cavaliers. Barber was selected by the Giants in the second round of the 1997 NFL draft. He retired from the NFL at the end of the 2006 NFL postseason as the Giants' all-time rushing and reception leader. He is the only player in NFL history to have 10,000 rushing yards, 5,000 receiving yards, and 1,000 return yards. Barber was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
After his playing career, Barber became a national media presence, joining NBC's The Today Show as a correspondent in 2007, then Football Night in America/Sunday Night Football. He has published several children's books with identical twin brother Ronde Barber, including By My Brother's Side (2004).