Jeremy Towns facts for kids
| Free agent | |
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| Position: | Defensive tackle |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | March 9, 1989 |
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight: | 290 lb (132 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Birmingham (AL) Wenonah |
| College: | Samford |
| Undrafted: | 2014 |
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Jeremy Towns (born March 9, 1989) is an American football Defensive tackle who was a free agent before signing with the Washington Redskins the day before he was supposed to start medical school at the University of South Alabama. Towns deferred for 2 years to play in the NFL where he also played for the Philadelphia Eagles and finally the Buffalo Bills. After injuring his knees, Towns returned to the University of South Alabama to begin the first year of medical school.
Towns graduated in 2020 as an MD and began his residency in Emergency Medicine at the UAB Hospital where he graduated in 2023. He is currently completing his primary care sports medicine fellowship at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama.
Towns has given back regularly to the Birmingham community through the RANSOM (Radical Athlete and Student Oasis Ministry) campus ministry group he founded while a student at Samford, and by running an annual Next Level youth football camp in Birmingham.
