Justin Nixon 

Missoula Raptors / Bitterroot Blaze

Running Back

2005 - 2010

The first GNFA inductee from the great state of Montana couldn't go to a more deserving player in the new millenia.  Nixon, a native of Corvalis, Montana was the backbone of a Bitterroot team that broke through with an undefeated 2007 season winning the RMFL AA Division. 

Justin attended Walla Walla Community College before being drafted in the 19th round of the MLB draft by the Oakland A's in 1998 taking 81 at bats with the Arizona Athletics of the minor league system that year.  Justin was an all-around outstanding athlete having his arm raised as a State Champion wrestler at 178 lbs in 1996.

Getting his football start in 2005, Nixon was first on the grid with the Missoula Raptors before a group of players broke away to form the Blaze closer to home.  From there he led the RMFL in rushing, including a 259 yard performance against those same Raptors in 2006.  First team All League four consecutive years, and RMFL Offensive MVP  for '06 and '07, Nixon carved his place in the GNFA record books for rushing statistics, until a knee injury ended his run as one of the best in the Northwest.  Justin still holds the #2 and #3 single game performances in the Northwest behind only fellow Hall of Famer Chuck Jones' 298 yards set in a game in 1938.  His name is sprinkled elsewhere in the rushing annals of the GNFA record book for game and season marks in rushing and scoring.

Honors

2006 RMFL Offensive MVP

2007 RMFL Offensive MVP

2006 1st Team All-RMFL

2007 1st Team All-RMFL

2008 1st Team All-RMFL

2009 1st Team All-RMFL