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Position: | Defensive end | ||||||||
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Date of birth: | September 21, 1973 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Miami, Florida | ||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 305 lb (138 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Tallahassee (FL) Lincoln | ||||||||
College: | Florida | ||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1995 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6 | ||||||||
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Player stats at PFR |
Tackles: | 628 |
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Quarterback sacks: | 104.5 |
Forced fumbles: | 18 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Kevin Louis Carter (born September 21, 1973) is an American former college and professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons in the 1990s and 2000s. Carter played college football for the University of Florida, and received All-American honors. A first-round pick in the 1995 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the St. Louis Rams, Tennessee Titans, Miami Dolphins, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL.
Carter was born in Miami, Florida. He attended Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, Florida, and was a letterman for the Lincoln Trojans high school football and basketball teams. In football, he was a Parade magazine high school All-American. Carter was a saxophone player in the marching band until he started his first season of football as a junior. He was a member of the school's Crime and Drug Prevention Task Force and was named Student-Athlete of the Year as a senior.
Carter accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was a four-year letterman for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1991 to 1994. During his four seasons as a Gator, the team won three Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships (1991, 1993, 1994).