Willie Mitchell​

Born in San Antonio in 1940, Willie Mitchell is one of the Top 50 high school football players in San Antonio history. He played for Wheatley High School when it was part of the Prairie View Interscholastic League before integration. In 2000, he was named to the San Antonio Express-News All-Time high school Top 50 team. ​

Mitchell played college football at Tennessee State before playing in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Oilers. He joined Kansas City in 1964, where he found immediate success. In 1966, he helped them win the final AFL League Championship before the inception of the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, now permanently the Super Bowl. The next year, Mitchell had an interception in Kansas City’s 35-10 loss to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I in 1967. Three years later, in 1970, Mitchell got his taste of Super Bowl victory in the Super Bowl IV game against the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings. After eight seasons with the Chiefs, he was traded to the Oilers, where he had career ending knee surgery, forcing him to retire.

Mitchell is currently the board chairman of San Antonio Fighting Back – a United Way organization whose mission is to make the community healthy and safe. ​