Chuck Cecil
| Los Angeles Rams | |
| Date of birth | November 8, 1964 |
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| Place of birth | Red Bluff, California |
| Career information | |
| Position(s) | FS |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
| Weight | 205 lb (93 kg) |
| College | Arizona |
| High school | Helix High School (La Mesa, California) |
| NFL draft | 1988 / Round: 4 / Pick: 89 |
| Drafted by | Green Bay Packers |
| Career history | |
| As coach | |
| 2001–2003 | Tennessee Titans (defensive asst./quality control) |
| 2004–2006 | Tennessee Titans (safeties and nickel backs coach) |
| 2007–2008 | Tennessee Titans (defensive backs coach) |
| 2009–2010 | Tennessee Titans (defensive coordinator) |
| 2012–present | St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams (defensive secondary coach) |
| As player | |
| 1988–1992 | Green Bay Packers |
| 1993 | Phoenix Cardinals |
| 1995 | Houston Oilers |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| Pro Bowls | 1992 |
| Awards | 1987 Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year 1988 Pac-10 Conference Medal winner 1988 NCAA Today's Top VI Award recipient Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Decade (1980s) |
| Honors | 1991 All-Madden selection 1987 UPI, Football News, Kodak,Walter Camp and coachesAll-America selection 2-time All-Pac-10 first team — 1986, 1987 3-time All-Pac-10 All-Academic team — 1985, 1986, 1987 1987 Academic All-America first team 2-time Academic All-America second team — 1985, 1986 University of Arizona Sports Hall of Fame inductee (1993) |
| Career stats | |
| Games started | 61 |
| Interceptions | 16 |
| Tackles | 445 |
| INT return TDs | 1 |
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Charles Douglas Cecil (born November 8, 1964) is an American football coach and former player who is the defensive secondary coach of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He is also a former NFL Pro Bowl safety.
Cecil was born in Red Bluff, California. He grew up in Hanford, California. He graduated from Helix High School in La Mesa, California where he was a standout player on a defense which set a school record for fewest points allowed per game and won a state title. At 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) and 150 lb (68 kg) (at the time), Cecil was considered too small to be a collegiate star and thus was not offered a scholarship out of high school.
He attended the University of Arizona where he walked-on for the Arizona Wildcats football team. He proved the recruiters wrong by eventually earning consensus All-America and Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year honors after his nine-interception senior season. When Cecil left Arizona, he held the Pac-10 record for career interceptions, with 21 (Lamont Thompson later broke the mark with 24), and set the Wildcats' school single-game record (and tied the Pac-10 record) with four interceptions against Stanford in 1987.
In the 1986 game against rival the Arizona State University Sun Devils, Cecil returned an interception 100 yards to notch a Wildcats victory. This play has been voted the greatest play in Wildcat football history.
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