Mark Carrier (wide receiver)
|
No. 88, 89, 83
|
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wide Receiver | |||||||||
|
Personal information
|
|||||||||
| Date of birth: October 28, 1965 | |||||||||
| Place of birth: Lafayette, Louisiana | |||||||||
|
Career information
|
|||||||||
| College: Nicholls State | |||||||||
| NFL Draft: 1987 / Round: 3 / Pick: 57 | |||||||||
| Debuted in 1987 | |||||||||
| Last played in 1998 | |||||||||
|
Career history
|
|||||||||
|
Career highlights and awards
|
|||||||||
|
Career NFL statistics
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
John Mark Carrier (born October 28, 1965 in Lafayette, Louisiana) is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 1987 NFL Draft 57th overall.
Carrier played college football at Nicholls State University and was named first-team Associated Press All-American and first-team Kodak All-American by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) in 1986.
A 6'0", 198-lb. wide receiver, Carrier played in 12 National Football League seasons from 1987 to 1998. A 1989 Pro Bowl selection for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carrier caught a career-high 86 receptions for 1,422 yards and 9 touchdowns that year. He was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the 1995 NFL Expansion Draft. Carrier ranks fourth all-time on the Carolina Panthers' all-time receiving list with 176 receptions (as of the end of the 2008 season). On September 1, 1995, Carrier Scored the first NFL points and touchdown in South Carolina (Memorial Stadium, Clemson University aka "Death Valley") for the Carolina Panthers. Mark was a standout three-sport prep athlete at Church Point high school in football, basketball and track. He was all-state and all-conference as a senior with an average of 22 points per game in basketball his senior year. He also coaches for a Pop Warner league in Tampa, Florida, the Carrollwood Hurricanes.
External links [edit]
References [edit]
 |
This biographical article relating to an American football wide receiver born in the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1965 births
- Living people
- People from Lafayette, Louisiana
- Players of American football from Louisiana
- American football wide receivers
- Nicholls State Colonels football players
- All-American college football players
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
- Cleveland Browns players
- Carolina Panthers players
- National Conference Pro Bowl players
- American football wide receiver, 1960s birth stubs
