for second in club history with 18 career fumble recoveries. More than 25 years after his retirement, Jordan still ranks second in Cowboys' history in career solo tackles with 743, second in career assisted tackles with 493, second in combined total tackles with 1,236 and first with 154 consecutive starts. He also holds the third and fourth highest totals of solo tackles in a single season with 100 in 1975 and 97 in 1968. In his 14 NFL seasons, he intercepted 32 passes (seventh in club history), returning them for 472 yards and three touchdowns. He was selected to Cowboys Silver Season All-Time Team. In 1988, he was among fifteen finalists for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame but did not make the cut (among those finalists, him and Lou Rymkus are the only ones who did not eventually become elected into the Hall). In 1989, he became the seventh member of the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor. He was the first member inducted by Jerry Jones. In 2018, the Professional Football Researchers Association named Jordan to the PFRA Hall of Very Good Class of 2018 Personal life Jordan married his college sweetheart, Mary "Biddie" Banks of Eutaw, and they had three sons, David, Lee and Chris Jordan. Jordan currently heads the Lee Roy Jordan Lumber Company, headquartered in Dallas. Video Alabama Crimson Tide football – 1963 Orange Bowl See also Most consecutive starts by a middle linebacker References External links Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor: Lee Roy Jordan Dallas Cowboys Top 50 players Alabama Crimson Tide football – All-Americans Alabama Sports Hall of Fame – Lee Roy Jordan 1941 births Living people People from Monroe County, Alabama Players of American football from Alabama All-American college football players American football linebackers Alabama Crimson Tide football players Dallas Cowboys players Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players National Conference Pro Bowl players College Football Hall of Fame inductees