{"id":1755,"date":"2025-11-04T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboutclassmates.com\/blog\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:03:54","slug":"dennis-byrd-high-school-yearbook-photo-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/dennis-byrd-high-school-yearbook-photo-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Byrd High School Yearbook Photo & Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dennis Byrd<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Former Professional Football Player<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birthdate: <\/strong>Oct 05, 1966<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High School:<\/strong> Mustang High School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yearbooks:<\/strong> 1982<\/a> | 1983<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yearbook photos of Dennis Byrd from Mustang High School<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dennis DeWayne Byrd<\/strong> (October 5, 1966 \u2013 October 15, 2016) was a former NFL defensive end and defensive tackle who played for the New York Jets. He graduated from Mustang High School<\/a>, in Mustang, OK, in 1984, where he participated in football, track, and baseball and was named an All-State defensive end as a senior. Byrd was selected by the Jets in 1989, in the second round of the NFL draft. He played for four seasons before succumbing to a career-ending neck injury in November of 1992, during a game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Initially paralyzed, Byrd spent months undergoing physical therapy and learned to walk again. He appeared at the Jets\u2019 home opener the following season as an honorary captain for the coin toss. Byrd co-wrote an autobiographical book \u2013 Rise and Walk: The Trial and Triumph of Dennis Byrd<\/em>\u2013 in 1993, which was later adapted as a made-for-TV movie. His jersey \u2013 number 90 \u2013 was retired by the Jets in 2012. Byrd tragically lost his life in an automobile accident on October 15, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dennis Byrd Former Professional Football Player Birthdate: Oct 05, 1966 High School: Mustang High School Yearbooks: 1982 | 1983 Yearbook photos of Dennis Byrd from Mustang High School       Dennis DeWayne Byrd (October 5, 1966 \u2013 October 15, 2016) was a former NFL defensive end and defensive tackle who played for the New York Jets. He graduated from Mustang High School, in Mustang, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6672,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/6672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}