Ross Cooper "Rip" Hawkins (April 21, 1939 – July 28, 2015) was a professional American football player.

He played five seasons in the National Football League with the Minnesota Vikings.

Hawkins died in 2015; at the time of his death, he had Lewy body dementia.

[1][2] He was one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repeated hits to the head.

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