Stacey Thomas is an American football

American football

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 strong safety free agent

Free agent

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 in the National Football League

National Football League

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. He was originally signed by the Buffalo Bills

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 as an undrafted free agent in 2007 but was released on July 27 that year http://www.buffalobills.com/team/Transactions.html. He played college football

College football

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 at Texas Southern University

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He played in a French team ( Dauphins de Nice :fr:Dauphins de Nice) during the season 2008/2009. In the summer of 2009 he played for the Oulu Northern Lights of the Finnish Division I. Thomas returned to the clubs in 2010.