Holmes played college football for the University of Texas at Austin. He was inducted into the University of Texas Hall of Honor and the Texas High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. [2][3] He was inducted into the Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame in 2014. Holmes was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

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Concluded his Longhorns career with 252 carries for 1,276 yards (5.1 avg.) with 20 TDs ... bounced back in 1996 after sitting out the 1995 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered in 1995 spring practice ... tallied 59 carries for 324 yards with 13 TDs, the sixth-highest single-season TD total in school history as a senior in 1996 ...

Priest Holmes, a San Antonio, Texas native, attended John Marshall High School where he led his football team to the state championship game. After his senior year at Marshall High School, Priest went on to play for the University of Texas Longhorns in 1992, where he majored in Sports Management and received a Bachelor in Education (B.Ed). ...

Mar 16, 2021 · Holmes spent four seasons at Texas but never really stuck out as a star, rushing for more than 500 yards just one time. In total, Holmes finished his collegiate career with 20 touchdowns and 1,276 yards. He earned Sun Bowl MVP honors after Texas' victory against North Carolina in 1994.

Jun 28, 2024 · A San Antonio, Texas, native, Holmes played collegiately at Texas, where he rushed for a career total of 1,276 yards with 20 touchdowns, averaging 5.1 yards per carry. He is a member of the University of Texas Hall of Honor, the Texas High School Sports Hall of Fame and the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.

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In what was voted as the greatest game in the history of the Hyundai Sun Bowl, Holmes put the hopes of Texas on his back and carried the Longhorns home to victory over the North Carolina Tar Heels, 35-31 on Dec. 30, 1994, in front of a then-record crowd of 50,612 fans.

Priest Holmes (born October 7, 1973) is a former American Football runningback. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns. Holmes went undrafted into the NFL in 1997. He was signed by the Baltimore Ravens. In 1998, he rushed for 1,008 yards and seven touchdowns after not playing the previous year.

Dec 10, 2021 · Priest Holmes was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas on Oct. 7, 1973, and he was raised in San Antonio, Texas. Life dealt him a significant dose of adversity very early on, as he never knew his biological father, who left when he was very little.