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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Broncos Sign WR Bill Flowers To Future Contract
1/6/2006 | Football
Jan. 6, 2006
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - The Denver Broncos on Friday signed free-agent wide receiver Bill Flowers to a future contract, Head Coach Mike Shanahan announced. Flowers officially will be added to the Broncos' roster at the end of the 2005 NFL season in February.
Flowers (6-1, 193 pounds) is a first-year player who spent the 2005 regular season out of football after Cleveland waived him June 20. He entered the NFL with the Browns as an undrafted free agent on May 2.
Flowers finished his career at the University of Mississippi ranked second on the school's all-time list for receptions (149) and sixth in receiving yards (1,795). The 25-year-old also recorded 10 touchdown receptions in 45 career games (19 starts).
As a senior in 2004, Flowers played eight games (6 starts) and caught 29 passes for 349 yards (12.0 avg.) with two touchdowns. He concluded his career with the Rebels having posted at least one reception in 20 consecutive games, marking the fifth-longest such streak in school history.
Flowers' season-high for receptions came during the 2002 campaign when he caught 53 passes to rank fifth on the school's single-season receptions list.
At Pelham High School in Pelham, Ala., Flowers was selected as Alabama's Gatorade Athlete of the Year as a senior. A SuperPrep All-America choice, Flowers finished his high-school career as the state's all-time Class 6A leader in receptions with 174 catches that went for 2,623 yards.
William Russell Flowers was born Dec. 16, 1980.
