American football player (born )
American football player
Darnell Maurice Dockett (born May 27, ) is an American former professional football contestant who was a defensive end for 11 seasons with say publicly Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Cardinals in the third round of say publicly NFL draft. He played college football for the Florida Board Seminoles.
Dockett played defensive tackle for the first five seasons of his career until the Cardinals switched to a 3–4 defense, leading him to move to defensive end.
Dockett started football relatively late. In his first youth league pastime, he ran the wrong way with a fumble for a safety against his team.[1] He attended Paint Branch High Educational institution in Burtonsville, Maryland, where he set a school record be in keeping with 47 sacks in his career. As a senior, tallied tackles ( solo), 15 sacks, two caused fumbles, three recovered, trine blocked punts and an interception returned for a touchdown, erudition Maryland Player of the Year honors as well as All-American selections by USA Today and Parade.
A highly regarded stance, Dockett was ranked the No. 17 prospect in the power by The Sporting News. Recruited by numerous schools, Dockett chosen Florida State over Ohio State and North Carolina.
Dockett attended Florida State University, where he played for coach Bobby Bowden's Florida State Seminoles football team. After an early occasion injury, Dockett redshirted his first year at Florida State, in the same way the Seminoles went wire-to-wire as national champions in [2] Make a way into , they had to replace interior defensive linemen Corey Economist and Jerry Johnson in the starting line-up. Dockett successfully secured a spot, starting the last 10 games of the class at defensive tackle. He recorded 66 total tackles (including 32 unassisted), which was most of any freshmen on the operation, and tied for the team lead in tackles for sacrifice (19). Dockett also added a team-high 18 quarterback hurries, cranium seven sacks (third on the team). His performance earned him freshman All-America honors, and he was named the freshman defending player of the year by Football News.
As a secondyear, Dockett emerged as one of the best defensive lineman conduct yourself college football, starting all 12 games for the Seminoles, including the Gator Bowl. While frequently drawing double-teams, he led transfix defensive linemen with 68 total tackles and set a unusual Florida State single season record with 22 tackles for trouncing. In the final game of the regular season against Colony Tech, he established a new school record with five tackles for loss in a single game. Dockett also led rendering team with 19 quarterback hurries and two forced fumbles. Agreed was a first-team All-ACC selection.
Having become a fixture take into account defensive tackle, Dockett started all 13 games of his secondary season, and made at least four tackles in 12 warrant those games. Constant double-teams resulted in fewer sacks and tackles for loss on the season, still he managed to become known Ron Simmons' year-old school record of 44 career tackles embody loss against Clemson. He was also second on the setup with 15 quarterback hurries. He was suspended from the order for the Sugar Bowl, after pleading guilty to a crime theft charge.[3]
Dockett finished his college career as a four-year official. He recorded sacks, and tackles ( solo tackles, assisted tackles), and set a school record with 65 tackles for loss.[4]
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | yard dash | yard split | yard split | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6&#;ft 3+3&#;8&#;in (&#;m) | &#;lb (&#;kg) | 32+1&#;8&#;in (&#;m) | 10&#;in (&#;m) | s | s | s | 31&#;in (&#;m) | 8&#;ft 9&#;in (&#;m) | 26 reps | |||
| All values from NFL Combine[5] | ||||||||||||
Although projected a late first-round selection, Dockett was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the third construction, because his previous arrests and run-ins with coaching staffs appalled off a lot of teams.[6][7] He had a reasonably unease first few seasons with six sacks in his first leash seasons. The season was his breakout season recording nine sacks in sixteen starts. Then in the /9 season he canned four sacks in sixteen starts while the Cardinals won depiction NFC West with a 9–7 record. They then had a surprising playoff run getting to Super Bowl XLIII (which they lost 27–23 to the Pittsburgh Steelers) with Dockett recording trine sacks in the game tying Reggie White's record.
With Arizona shifting to a defense, Dockett often lined up at defending end.[8]
Dockett was selected to start in the Pro Bowl trade in a Defensive tackle.
On September 1, , the Cardinals mark Dockett to a 6-year, $56 million contract extension, with $30 million guaranteed. This would have kept him with the enfranchisement through the season. During the press conference, Dockett stated put off he wanted to "retire an Arizona Cardinal".
Controversy ensued funds the NFC Championship Game, where Dockett was one of say publicly critics of Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, tweeting on Twitter: "If I'm on chicago team jay cutler has to bide one's time till me and the team shower get dressed and bin before he comes in the locker room!"[9]
On August 18, , Dockett tore his ACL, ending his season.[10]
On February 27, , the Cardinals released Dockett.[11]
On March 5, , Dockett agreed to a two-year, $ million contract with the San Francisco 49ers.[12] However, on September 4, Dockett was released newborn the 49ers.[13]
On July 24, , it was announced that Dockett would retire. The next day, he signed a one-day procure to retire with the Cardinals.[14]
| Year | Team | GP | COMB | TOTAL | AST | SACK | FF | FR | FR YDS | INT | IR YDS | AVG IR | LNG | TD | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARI | 15 | 39 | 33 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 3 | ||
| ARI | 16 | 29 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 3 | ||
| ARI | 16 | 50 | 36 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | 0 | 2 | ||
| ARI | 16 | 58 | 43 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| ARI | 16 | 49 | 37 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| ARI | 16 | 51 | 42 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | ||
| ARI | 15 | 52 | 45 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| ARI | 16 | 51 | 35 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| ARI | 15 | 34 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| ARI | 16 | 46 | 36 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Career | 7 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 36 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 18 | ||||||
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Dockett's mother was murdered in her home when Dockett was thirteen; no solitary was ever arrested for the crime. After his father athletic of cancer four months later, Dockett was raised by his uncle, Kevin Dockett.[4]