American football player (born 1953)

James Denis Turner (born April 17, 1953 in Moultrie, Georgia) is a former American Football guard in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Duke University. Turner played for the Charlotte Hornets of the World Football League in 1975 as a defensive tackle. Turner then joined the Jacksonville Bulls of the United States Football League in 1985.

He played the role of the Even Bigger Black Guy in the movie Trading Places (1983) starring both Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, where his character utters the word Yeah in a tone described by The New York Times as deeper than deep to the character played by Murphy, Billy Ray Valentine, while imprisoned in a jail cell.

He is now the offensive line coach for the football team of Tenafly High School.

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