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Ted Karras Jr.
American football player and coach (born 1964)
Theodore George Karras Jr. (born December 10, 1964) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach for Marian University in Indianapolis, a position he first held from the program's inception in 2007 through the 2012 season and resumed in 2023. Karras was the head football coach at Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana from 2003 to 2005 and Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio from 2013 to 2016. He led the 2012 Marian Knights football team to the NAIA Football National Championship title.
Karras played college football as a defensive tackle at Northwestern from 1983 to 1986 and played one game as a replacement player with the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) during 1987 players' strike that inspired the movie The Replacements. His father, Ted Karras Sr., played for the Chicago Bears in the 1960s. His uncles also played in the NFL: Alex Karras for the Detroit Lions and Lou Karras for the Washington Redskins. His son, Ted Karras III, is currently in the NFL as the starting center for the Cincinnati Bengals.