Offensive Tackle
4th Round
Oklahoma
"The Giants filled a need for a big offensive lineman by getting Oklahoma's All-American Mike Vaughan. At 6-5 and 275, Vaughan was a powerhouse at blowing people off the ball and because of his dimensions (the biggest offensive tackle in Oklahoma history) earned the nickname 'U.S.S. Vaughan.'
He earned every honor possible as a junior, being a First-Team All-American by both AP and UPI as well as the Football Writers, Football News and Kodak. Much of the success of running back Joe Washington in 1975 was directly traced to Mike's tremendous power blocking straight ahead. Plagued by nagging injuries his senior season, he is fully recovered and now gives the Giants their biggest offensive line prospect in many years.
Since Oklahoma obviously has not been much of a passing team in recent years, Vaughan will need to work in the area of pass blocking, but as Giants' line coach Jay Fry observes, 'with his strength, power and quickness and the fact that he was a starter for three years in the Big 8, we feel we have a really outstanding prospect ... a player who can step right in and become a starter.'
Mike is from Ada, Oklahoma and starred there in high school in both football and track and has also wrestled."
-1977 New York Giants Media Guide
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