Mark Carrier (safety)
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| Position: | Safety | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | April 28, 1968 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Lake Charles, Louisiana | ||||||||
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| High school: | Long Beach (CA) Poly | ||||||||
| College: | Southern California | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1990 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6 | ||||||||
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| Tackles: | 863 |
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| Interceptions: | 32 |
| Touchdowns: | 1 |
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Mark Anthony Carrier, III (born April 28, 1968) is a retired American football safety who played in the National Football League. He was the former defensive backs' coach for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Carrier went to Long Beach Polytechnic High School and was a letterman in football. In football, he was a three-year varsity starter. Mark was named to the Parade All-American, USA Today All-American, and the Long Beach Press-Telegram 's Best-in-the-West teams in 1985.
Carrier is a 1989 graduate of the University of Southern California. As a junior in 1989, Carrier was named to the Playboy All-American team and became USC's first winner of the Jim Thorpe Award, presented annually to the nation's best defensive back. A two-time consensus first-team All-American, Carrier had seven interceptions in 1989, plus 107 tackles, three fumble recoveries and ten pass deflections. A three-year starter for the Trojans, Carrier finished his collegiate career with thirteen interceptions. Carrier was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame, class of 2006.
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