Darren Mickell
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| Position: | Defensive tackle | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | August 3, 1970 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Miami, Florida | ||||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 285 lb (129 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school: | Miami Senior (FL) | ||||||||||||
| College: | Florida | ||||||||||||
| Supplemental draft: | 1992 / Round: 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Games played: | 89 |
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| Games started: | 61 |
| Tackles: | 178 |
| Quarterback sacks: | 26.0 |
| Forced fumbles: | 11 |
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Darren Mickell (born August 3, 1970) is an American former college and professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons during the 1990s and early 2000s. Mickell played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Kansas City Chiefs, the New Orleans Saints, the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders of the NFL.
Mickell was born in Miami, Florida in 1970. He attended Miami Senior High School, and played high school football for the Miami Stingarees.
Mickell accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football teams in 1990 and 1991. Mickell was a highly regarded recruit who was signed by the Gators' previous head coach, Galen Hall, but he did not qualify academically and was ineligible to play under the NCAA's Proposition 48 legislation during his freshman season in 1989. Spurrier subsequently benched him for the first five games of the 1991 season for his failure to attend classes as required. After his return to the playing field, Mickell was one of the defensive heroes in the Gators' 14–9 upset of the Florida State Seminoles in November 1991—widely regarded as one of the closest and hardest-fought games in the Florida-Florida State rivalry series. Mickell lettered in 1990 and 1991, and left school a year early, after being suspended for the 1992 season for undisclosed violations of team rules.
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