Mykel Benson
 Benson in 2017 | |||||||||||||
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| Born: | December 30, 1987 | ||||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 275 lb (125 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school: | Palm Bay (FL) Bayside | ||||||||||||
| College: | Florida A&M | ||||||||||||
| Position: | Fullback | ||||||||||||
| Undrafted: | 2010 | ||||||||||||
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Mykel “Boom Boom” Benson (born December 30, 1987) is a former American football fullback. He was signed by the Milwaukee Mustangs as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football and college baseball at Florida A&M University.[1]
Benson was assigned to the Philadelphia Soul on January 13, 2017.[2] He was placed on recallable reassignment on April 1, 2017. He was activated April 5, 2017. He earned First Team All-Arena honors in 2017.[3] On August 26, 2017, the Soul beat the Tampa Bay Storm in ArenaBowl XXX by a score of 44–40.[4]
On April 17, 2018, he was assigned to the Baltimore Brigade.[5] On June 14, 2018, he was placed on reassignment. The next day, he was claimed off reassignment by the Albany Empire.[6] Benson was named to his third All-Arena Team in 2019, en route to winning his second championship with Albany that same year.
References
[edit]- ^ St. Clair Murraine (February 16, 2010). "FAMU's Benson moves from gridiron to diamond". www.tallahassee.com. Tallahassee.com. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
- ^ "Transactions". afldigital.com. Archived from the original on January 19, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "AFL Announces All-Arena First and Second Teams". arenafootball.com. August 21, 2017. Archived from the original on September 16, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Soul Snare Second Straight Foster Trophy in ArenaBowl XXX". arenafootball.com. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Recent Transactions". arenafan.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
- ^ "Transactions". afldigital.com. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
External links
[edit]- Arena Football League bio
Media related to Mykel Benson at Wikimedia Commons
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- American football fullbacks
- Florida A&M Rattlers football players
- Florida A&M Rattlers baseball players
- Milwaukee Mustangs (2009–2012) players
- Georgia Force players
- Orlando Predators players
- San Antonio Talons players
- Arizona Rattlers players
- Philadelphia Soul players
- Baltimore Brigade players
- Albany Empire (AFL) players
- People from Palm Bay, Florida
- Players of American football from Brevard County, Florida
- 21st-century American sportsmen
- American football running back, 1980s birth stubs