Adrian Ward, American football player

Adrian Michael Ward is an American former professional football cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Texas at El Paso after attending Chabot College in Hayward, California. He was selected by the Vikings in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL draft. Waived by the Vikings in September 2005, Ward was signed a little over a week later to the Giants' practice squad, on which he competed briefly. In 2007, the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) signed him as a free agent.