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Position: | Cornerback | ||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||
Date of birth: | April 15, 1971 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Sacramento, California | ||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 213 lb (97 kg) | ||||||||
Career information | |||||||||
High school: | Mount Shasta (CA) | ||||||||
College: | USC | ||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1994 / Round: 2 / Pick: 59 | ||||||||
Career history | |||||||||
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Tackles: | 458 |
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Interceptions: | 19 |
Touchdowns: | 5 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Jason Heath Sehorn (born April 15, 1971) is a former American football cornerback who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants from 1994 to 2002 and St. Louis Rams in 2003. He played college football at the University of Southern California (USC).
Sehorn was born in Sacramento, California. He played only one year of high school football at Mount Shasta High School in Mount Shasta, California.
Sehorn played his first two years of college football at Shasta College, a junior college in Redding, California, where he was a standout wide receiver, kick returner and punt returner. He then played two years at the University of Southern California where he was moved to safety due to an abundance of talent at wide receiver.
Sehorn was drafted in the second round of the 1994 NFL Draft by the New York Giants, and spent most of his career playing cornerback for them.
After back-to-back successful seasons in 1996-97, Sehorn suffered a debilitating knee injury, tearing his anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments while returning the opening kickoff in a 1998 preseason game against the New York Jets. Though Sehorn returned the next season, his speed was diminished. Still, he started 73 games for the Giants at cornerback in six seasons played from 1996-2002.