NFL · Pro Bowl

Tommie Harris

Defensive tackle · 3 selections · retired · OU 2001-2003

Lombardi Award winner who made three straight Pro Bowls for the Bears

Tommie Harris started every game of his true freshman season at Oklahoma, a rare feat for a Sooner, and won the Lombardi Award as the nation's best lineman in 2003. The Chicago Bears made him the 14th overall pick in the 2004 draft, and he finished second in Defensive Rookie of the Year voting.

In his second season, 2005, he was picked for the Pro Bowl and named AP second-team All-Pro. In 2006 he led the league with five sacks after four games and was twice named NFC Defensive Player of the Week before a hamstring injury ended his season in Week 13. He was selected for the Pro Bowl anyway. In 2007 he had a career-high eight sacks and was picked for a third straight year, but a knee injury kept him out of the game.

All three of his Pro Bowls came with the Bears, in consecutive seasons from 2005 through 2007. That ties him with Mark Andrews, Jalen Hurts, DeMarco Murray, Billy Sims and Tress Way among former Sooners with three.

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