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John Lynch

Former NFL All-Pro Safety

Career Highlights: A 15-year NFL veteran safety, John Lynch is one of the most decorated NFL players with nine Pro Bowl selections and four Associated Press All-Pro recognitions…Lynch officially announced this past November and six days later joined NFL on Fox in the broadcasting booth as a color commentator…Lynch’s career totals include 1,277 tackles, 13 sacks and 26 interceptions…Lynch posted at least one interception for 11 consecutive seasons (1995-2005) …Lynch helped Denver reach the AFC Championship Game in 2005, marking his third career conference championship game appearance and his 12th career playoff start…He passed the 1,000-career tackle mark in Denver’s game at Oakland in October 2004…Lynch served as the Broncos defensive captain in 2006 and 2007…Lynch spent the first 11 years of his NFL career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before joining the Broncos as a free agent in 2004… He finished his Buccaneers career ranked third on the Bucs’ all-time tackles list (973), tied for fourth in interceptions (23) and ranked second in games played (164)…As a key leader, Lynch helped the team to a win in Super Bowl XXXVII against the Oakland Raiders…Regarded as one of the most revered players in Buccaneers history, he led a talented secondary that had a top-10 NFL ranking against the pass in seven of eight seasons from 1996-2003… Lynch posted a career-high 154 tackles in 1997, the most ever by a Tampa Bay defensive back, while recording nine games with 10 or more tackles that year…He founded the John Lynch Foundation and has been recognized by The Sporting News as one of the “Good Guys” in sports several times, as well as the Broncos’ 2005 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award recipient…Lynch was selected by Tampa Bay in the third round of the 1993 NFL Draft out of Stanford…He played four seasons at Stanford, the first two as quarterback before switching to safety for his final two seasons…As a senior, he was named second-team All-American by Football News and first-team All-Pac-10 Conference.

Updated: June 2010
Courtesy NBC

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