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4 Athletes You Didn't Know Were from Las Vegas — #1 Demarco Murray NFL player

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Noah Gragson, Jon Moxley, Aaron Fotheringham, and DeMarco Murray all call Las Vegas home. Learn about the hometown heroes who made it big in sports.

4 Athletes You Didn't Know Were from Las Vegas

#1 Demarco Murray NFL player

Cowboys player in number 29 clutches a football while fending off a Bears defender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hauac0Cp_jk

Remember when Demarco Murray was the biggest thing in pro football? He could mow defenders down, gain big chunks of yards, and seemed to be the answer to helping Tony Romo get back to the Super Bowl. Believe it or not, the former leading rusher is also a Las Vegas native! While his career in the NFL  might feel like forever and a day ago, Murray was once an MVP among fantasy football players.

Murray shocked the NFL in 2014 by deciding t to leave the Dallas Cowboys for the Philadelphia Eagles to create what was supposed to be a dream team. That didn’t end up working out, which eventually led to him going to the Tennesse Titans. For a few years, his numbers were decent, but a far cry from what they once were. Murray decided to retire in 2018.

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