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| Positions | Linebacker Safety | ||||||||||||
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| Born | (1978-11-07)November 7, 1978 (age 47) Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | Cedar Cliff(Camp Hill, Pennsylvania) | ||||||||||||
| College | Stanford | ||||||||||||
| NFL draft | 2002: 3rd round, 97th overall pick | ||||||||||||
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Coy CNN10 Wire (born November 7, 1978) is an American television anchor, correspondent, and a former professionalfootball player who spent nine seasons in theNational Football League (NFL). Wire playedcollege football forStanford and was selected by theBuffalo Bills in the third round of the2002 NFL draft. Since 2015, he has worked forCNN as a sports anchor and correspondent, and currently is the anchor ofCNN 10, a student-oriented news show.[1]
Wire was alinebacker andsafety who playedcollege football forStanford. He played six seasons for theBuffalo Bills from 2002 to 2007 and three seasons for theAtlanta Falcons from 2008 to 2010.
With CNN, Wire's many field assignments have included on-the-ground coverage of the2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, theCollege Football Playoff Semi-Finals and National Championship games, andSuper Bowl 50.
Wire attended Bridge Valley Elementary in the South Middleton School District. Highland Elementary School, Lemoyne Middle School, andCedar Cliff High School, all in theWest Shore School District. He graduated from Cedar Cliff inCamp Hill, Pennsylvania in 1997 where he set school records in both football and wrestling that have still not been broken.[citation needed] In 1995, his father, Rick, founded Dynamite Sports, a company that guides student athletes and their families through therecruiting process.
Coy graduated fromStanford University and was the first player in modern school history to lead the team in rushing one year and tackles in another.[2]
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | |||
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| 5 ft11+3⁄4 in (1.82 m) | 209 lb (95 kg) | 30+1⁄4 in (0.77 m) | 9+3⁄4 in (0.25 m) | 4.56 s | 3.87 s | 6.62 s | 38.5 in (0.98 m) | 10 ft 0 in (3.05 m) | 28 reps | |||
| All values fromNFL Combine[3][4] | ||||||||||||
Wire was selected in the third round of the2002 NFL draft (97th overall) by theBuffalo Bills.[5] He started 15 games atstrong safety as arookie.[6]
Following the signing ofLawyer Milloy in 2003,[7] Wire became a full-timespecial teams player and was named Buffalo's Special Teams Player of the Year twice.[8] Wire was voted ateam captain in 2005[9] and selected by his teammates as the Bills'Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee.[8] After suffering a neck injury that required surgery to insert a titanium plate and four screws into his neck,[10] Wire was released by the Bills on February 27, 2008.[11]
Wire signed with theAtlanta Falcons on July 25, 2008. He played in 47 of 48 games over three seasons[6] with the Falcons before being released on September 2, 2011. While with the Falcons, Wire was named ateam captain and selected by his teammates as the franchise recipient of theEd Block Courage Award in 2010.[12]
NFL career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | Tackling | Fumbles | Interceptions | |||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | GP | GS | Combined | Solo | Assisted | Sacks | FF | FR | PD | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | ||||
| 2002 | BUF | 16 | 15 | 96 | 71 | 25 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2003 | BUF | 16 | 1 | 28 | 24 | 4 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2004 | BUF | 12 | 3 | 25 | 14 | 11 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2005 | BUF | 13 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2006 | BUF | 16 | 1 | 23 | 13 | 10 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2007 | BUF | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2008 | ATL | 16 | 4 | 34 | 28 | 6 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2009 | ATL | 16 | 1 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2010 | ATL | 15 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Career | 127 | 26 | 248 | 182 | 66 | 5.0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Wire served as a game analyst, studio analyst and online writer forFox Sports[13] before joining CNN in 2015. FromCNN Center, Wire anchors dailyBleacher Report segments, covers events and serves as an expert contributor across all platforms. He appears regularly on CNN programsEarly Start,New Day andCNN Newsroom, in addition toHLN programsMorning Express withRobin Meade andWeekend Express withLynn Smith. He also contributes to CNN International's World Sport program and to CNN Digital on a broad range of crossover sports stories.
In 2019, Wire worked as a special assignment travel correspondent for CNN.
On September 8, 2022, Wire was made anchor of seasonal news programCNN 10, replacing former host Carl Azuz. In the aftermath of this change, many students, teachers and parents were surprised and expressed dismay at the change of anchor.[14]
Wire was raised by his parents, Rick and Jane Wire. His mother, Jane, who is a visual specialist. He has a sister, Tiffany, and a brother, Casey, who is aPGA certified teaching professional.[15] Wire is ofGerman,Irish,Dutch, andJapanese descent.[16] His mother named him after the Japanese word for "love".[17] Wire resides inAtlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Claire, who owns a home design and renovation company.[18]
Wire wrote an inspirational book,Change Your Mind, which was published in 2011.
Wire has served on theboard of directors atMake-A-Wish Georgia[19] and has been akeynote speaker for organizations such as theU.S. Military,UPS, and theU.S. Department of Education.[20]