Kyle Kramer (2011) - Hall of Fame - Bowling Green State University Athletics

Kyle Kramer

Induction:
2011
Class:
1991

KYLE KRAMER (football, 1985-88)
Kramer, a native of Kettering, Ohio (Fairmont H.S.), was a four-year letterwinner and a three-year starter at safety for the football Falcons. A two-time All-Mid-American Conference First-Team selection, he also was named to the Academic All-MAC Team on two occasions. Kramer earned All-America honorable mention in each of his last two seasons in the Brown and Orange.

Kramer was named to the all-conference second team in his sophomore season of 1986, after tying for second on the team with 105 tackles that fall. He also had a career-best total of five interceptions as a soph. Kramer’s tackle total deadlocked him for 10th in the MAC.

In his junior season, Kramer led the team with 139 tackles, causing three fumbles and breaking up three passes that year. He was named to the All-MAC First Team, and also was an Associated Press All-America honorable-mention selection. Kramer was named to both the Academic All-MAC and the CoSIDA Academic All-District teams in his junior seasons. He would earn all four of those honors again as a senior in 1988.

In that junior year, Kramer had a whopping 21 tackles, including 14 solo stops, against Arizona, and he also made 18 tackles in the Eastern Michigan game. He ranked fourth in the MAC in tackles that season, and intercepted passes against Western Michigan and Toledo, setting up BG scores in both cases.

As a senior, Kramer was a team co-captain, and was named the Falcons’ Most Valuable Player. He led the team with a total of 143 tackles, ranking fifth in the MAC. Kramer had 19 stops against EMU in his final collegiate game, and also made 16 tackles at TCU that year, blocking a punt out of the end zone for a safety in the latter game.

Kramer’s career total of 399 tackles was the third highest in BGSU history at the time of his graduation, and it still ranks fifth on the school’s career list today. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 1989 NFL Draft, and was with the Browns for two years before an injury ended his career. Kramer had 17 special teams stops during the regular season as a rookie in ‘89, and recorded his first NFL interception in the Dec. 17 game vs. Minnesota. He missed several games due to a thigh injury that year, then suffered a shoulder injury in the Hall of Fame Game in 1990, missing the entire season. Kramer was with the Browns until 1991.

At the time of his induction to the BGSU Hall of Fame in 2011, Kramer worked for Zimmer, a worldwide leader in joint replacement solutions and orthopaedics. He resides in Bellbrook, Ohio, with his wife, Kiki – a BGSU alumna – and their two daughters, McKenna and Kalli.