Alex Mack

Alex Mack

Mack with the Falcons in 2016
No. 51 Atlanta Falcons
Position:	Center
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1985-11-19) November 19, 1985 (age 31)
Place of birth:	Los Angeles, California
Height:	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight:	311 lb (141 kg)
Career information
High school:	Santa Barbara (CA) San Marcos
College:	California
NFL Draft:	2009 / Round: 1 / Pick: 21
Career history
Cleveland Browns (2009–2015) Atlanta Falcons (2016–present)
Career highlights and awards
4× Pro Bowl (2010, 2013, 2015, 2016) 2× Second-team All-Pro (2013, 2016) 3× First-team All-Pac-10 (2006–2008)
Career NFL statistics as of Week 17, 2016
Games played: 117 Games started: 117 Player stats at NFL.com

Javon Alexander "Alex" Mack (born November 19, 1985) is an American football center for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of California, and was drafted by the Cleveland Browns 21st overall in the 2009 NFL Draft.

Mack was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara, where he was named the Channel League's Co-Most Valuable Player on defense and earned a first-team all-league selection. He was also selected to the All-CIF team. In the classroom, he compiled a 4.2 GPA and an 1180 SAT score.

Considered a two-star recruit by Rivals.com, Mack chose California over Northwestern and Stanford.

Mack also wrestled for four years with the Royals, losing only two matches his senior year and reaching the state final. He was a CIF champion as a junior and a senior.

Mack played for the California Golden Bears football team while attending the University of California, Berkeley. He made 39 consecutive starts for the Golden Bears registering 256 key blocks/knockdowns, 32 touchdown-resulting blocks and 29 down field blocks. Mack compiled a 3.61 undergraduate GPA at the University of California, Berkeley as a legal studies major. He graduated in 2008 and played the 2008 season as a graduate student in education. He won the Draddy Trophy, also dubbed the "academic Heisman", for his academic success in 2008, becoming the first Cal player and the second consecutive center to earn the trophy, following Dallas Griffin of Texas. He also won the Morris Trophy in 2007 and 2008, making him the third offensive lineman and the first since Washington's Lincoln Kennedy in 1991 and 1992 to win the award twice. Mack also represented Cal at the 2009 Senior Bowl.