Quarles in 2014
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No. 53 Tampa Bay Buccaneers | |||||||||
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Position: | Director of Football Operations | ||||||||
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Date of birth: | September 11, 1971 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||
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College: | Vanderbilt | ||||||||
Undrafted: | 1994 | ||||||||
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Tackles: | 581 |
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Sacks: | 13.0 |
Interceptions: | 4 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Shelton Eugene Quarles (born September 11, 1971) is a former linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team he played for in his ten-year career from 1997 to 2006. He formally served as the Director of Pro Scouting for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but now serves as Director of Football Operations for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Quarles is an alumnus of Whites Creek High School in Nashville, Tennessee and was a student and a letterman in football. In football, he won a first-team All-State honors as a senior, and finished his career with 30 sacks, 505 tackles, and five interceptions. He was also a member of National Honor Society. Shelton Quarles graduated from Whites Creek High School in 1990.
Quarles played college football in Vanderbilt earning second-team All-Southeastern Conference honors as a senior and signed as an undrafted free agent by the Miami Dolphins in 1994 but was cut in training camp. Quarles then played for two seasons (1995-96) with the Canadian Football League's BC Lions before signing with the Buccaneers as a free agent in 1997.