Colin Allred, a former NFL player, ran for the US Senate in Texas. He transitioned from a successful football career to law.

Colin Allred in one of the year's most expensive races ... Allred, 41, is a former NFL linebacker and civil rights attorney ...

Texas' Senate seat, held by Republicans for decades, was seen as one of Democrats' only, if unlikely, shots at a flip in the ...

Republican incumbent Ted Cruz takes on challenger Democratic U.S. Rep Colin Allred. Polls have shown the race to be ... of ...

Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker and civil rights lawyer from Dallas, repeatedly broke fundraising records in his campaign, raising more than $80 million by mid-October. Full Story By The ...

Allred was a high school football star who would later go on to play for the Tennessee Titans. From there he pivoted to law school where he pursued a career as a civil rights attorney.

Why would anybody want to vote for Colin Allred? There are two obvious answers. First, Allred is a Democrat and a reliable party man, so if you’re a party-line Democrat, you’d vote for him.

With fewer than two weeks until Election Day, Allred, the 41-year-old Baylor University graduate and former NFL linebacker turned civil rights attorney and congressman, told me that he regularly ...

Colin Allred, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, and Republican Senator Ted Cruz, seeking re-election to a third term, met for their first and only debate. Allred, 41, a civil rights attorney and ...

Colin Allred, according to projections from CBS News and the Associated ... Cruz was joined by his family and supporters in ...

In the end, it wasn’t close at all. On election night, Texans handed sweeping victories to the Republican Party that controls ...