years birth_place teams color awards article_title fontcolor position birth_date college name
2003-2004 2005 boca raton , fl usa british columbia lions ottawa renegades #c 7cad0 2003 cfl rookie of the year frank cutolo
 # 000080 slotback january 8 , 1976 eastern illinois university frank cutolo
frank cutolo

frank cutolo is a former award winning college and canadian football league slotback .
cutolo played his college football at eastern illinois university from 1998 to 2001 .
as a receiver he caught 119 passes for 2182 yards .
he was a second team ohio valley conference all-star in 2001 , partly on the strength of his record setting performance against tennessee state , when he set a team record for receiving yards in a game -lrb- 239 -rrb- on october 27 , 2001 .
he became a professional with the british columbia lions in 2003 , and his 64 pass receptions , 908 yards , 93 punt and kick off returns and 9 touchdowns were good for the cfl 's most outstanding rookie award .
his performance dropped off in 2004 -lrb- 47 receptions for 786 yards , with 9 tds -rrb- and he was eventually cut from the team .
the lions ' coach , wally buono , chalked it up to burnout : '' `` he was a young guy , not big , a rookie that we beat to death ... sometimes you do n't do things as smart as you should . ''
he played one final year with the ottawa renegades where he caught 21 passes for 222 yards and one td .
