President-elect Trump’s choose to steer the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement performed eight years within the NFL and on one of many worst groups in league historical past.Â
Scott Turner, a seventh-round pick of Illinois, performed for a 2000 Chargers staff that went 1-15. It is acknowledged as one of many worst groups in NFL historical past, and Turner shared a locker room with notorious NFL bust Ryan Leaf. The opposite quarterback on that staff was present Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh, who went winless in 5 video games as a starter with 10 interceptions.Â
But it surely was considered one of Turner’s finest particular person seasons as a professional. The previous defensive again had a career-high two begins and his solely interception for a landing that yr. He additionally blocked a punt in his staff’s first assembly in opposition to the Denver Broncos in October of that yr.Â
Turner’s landing, a 75-yard choose six in opposition to the Broncos of their second assembly Nov. 19, 2000, got here within the closing two minutes of the primary half to place San Diego up 24-7.Â
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Kicker Tom Rouen of the Denver Broncos punts the ball, and it’s blocked by Scott Turner (21) of the San Diego Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. (Christopher Ruppel/Allsport)
Leaf had a profession day passing in the one recreation by which he threw for greater than 300 yards or three touchdowns. However Leaf threw an interception, and the Chargers misplaced the sport 38-37. It was Leaf’s final season in San Diego, and by 2003 he was out of the league.Â
Leaf later served time in jail and is named one of many NFL’s greatest draft busts after being taken with the No. 2 general choose in 1998 after Peyton Manning went No. 1.Â
Turner performed yet one more season in San Diego, showing in simply 4 video games in 2001. His closing NFL season got here in 2003 with the Broncos.
Turner scored his first-ever landing on a fumble restoration in the long run zone for the Washington Redskins in opposition to the Arizona Cardinals in December 1996.Â
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Turner additionally labored as an intern for U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., throughout offseasons and after he retired in 2004. In 2006, Turner ran unsuccessfully as a Republican in California’s fiftieth Congressional District.
Turner joined the Texas Home in 2013 as half of a big crop of Tea Celebration-supported lawmakers. He tried unsuccessfully to develop into speaker earlier than he completed his second time period in 2016. He didn’t search a 3rd time period.
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White Home Alternative and Revitalization Council Govt Director Scott Turner speaks on the invitation of President Trump through the Nationwide Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities Week Convention on the Renaissance Lodge Sept. 10, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
Trump launched Turner in April 2019 as the pinnacle of the brand new White Home Alternative and Revitalization Council. Trump credited Turner with “serving to to steer an Unprecedented Effort that Remodeled our Nation’s most distressed communities.”
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