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Position: | Defensive end | ||||||||
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Born: | Pasadena, Texas, U.S. | January 21, 1957||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 255 lb (116 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Kashmere (Houston, Texas) | ||||||||
College: | Texas A&M | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1980 / round: 1 / pick: 10 | ||||||||
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Jacob Carl Green (born January 21, 1957) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies.
Green was an All-American selection in 1979 after compiling 134 tackles and was a then school-record 20 quarterback sacks. Green's 37 career sacks still rank second in A&M history behind Aaron Wallace’s 42 career sacks. Green owns school records for career fumbles caused (12) and season fumbles caused (six in 1978).
Green was a first-round draft pick (10th overall) in the 1980 NFL draft by the Seattle Seahawks. In his 13-year career in the NFL, Green played 12 seasons for the Seattle Seahawks, as number 79, and one season for the San Francisco 49ers. Green recorded 97.5 career sacks for the Seahawks (unofficially 115.5; sacks became an official NFL statistic in 1982, Green's third season), [1] a team record and at the time of his retirement good for number three on the all-time sacks leaderboard behind only Reggie White and Lawrence Taylor.
Grant Alden Wistrom is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. Wistrom played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and was a two-time All-American. He was selected in the first round of the 1998 NFL draft, and played in the NFL for the St. Louis Rams and Seattle Seahawks.
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Brian Gale Robison is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL draft and played for the team for 11 seasons. In 173 NFL games, he recorded 289 tackles, 60 sacks and one touchdown. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns. While at college, he also participated in track and field, competing in the shot put; in 2006, his senior year, he finished in second place in the shot put competition at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
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