American football linebacker in the National Football League's Washington Redskins and in the American Football League with the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers ". The group "the AFL Championship in 1963 and AFL all-star in 1961, 1962 and 1963. Karas played college football at the University of Dayton and was drafted in the third round of the 1959 NFL draft. From pancreatic cancer and died in November 1974, one month before the forty-first birthday.