[Mick]

1978-1987 is 10 seasons :)

Indeed it is. Mr. King did not play in 1984, so his career was 1978 - 1983, and 1985 to 1987. He broke his left elbow and missed the last two games of the 1983 season, and all of 1984.  He'd started 47 consecutive games before that.

Incidentally, Stanford had quite a few great NFL players with nine year careers. Aside from King and Gordon, they had Pat Donovan, David DeCastro, Joe Cain, Chris Dressel, Cameron Fleming, Glyn Milburn, Blaine Nye, Gary Pettigrew, Turk Schonert, John Wilbur, Coy Wire, Kailee Wong and Dave Wyman.

[Mick]

1978-1987 is 10 seasons :)

Indeed it is. Mr. King did not play in 1984, so his career was 1978 - 1983, and 1985 to 1987. He broke his left elbow and missed the last two games of the 1983 season, and all of 1984.  He'd started 47 consecutive games before that.

Incidentally, Stanford had quite a few great NFL players with nine year careers. Aside from King and Gordon, they had Pat Donovan, David DeCastro, Joe Cain, Chris Dressel, Cameron Fleming, Glyn Milburn, Blaine Nye, Gary Pettigrew, Turk Schonert, John Wilbur, Coy Wire, Kailee Wong and Dave Wyman.