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Shaun Cody
| No. 95 Houston
Texans |
| Defensive tackle |
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Personal information |
| Date of
birth: January 22, 1983 (1983-01-22) (age 26) |
| Place of birth: Whittier,
California |
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Height: 6 ft 4 in
(1.93 m) |
Weight: 310 lb (141 kg) |
| Career information |
| College:
Southern California |
| NFL
Draft: 2005 / Round: 2
/ Pick: 37 |
| Debuted in 2005 for the
Detroit
Lions |
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| Career history |
As player:
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| Roster status: Active |
| Career highlights and awards |
- Consensus Freshman All-American (2001)
- 2× Honorable mention All-Pac-10 (2001, 2002)
- 2× First-team All-Pac-10 (2003, 2004)
- First-team All-American (2004)
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|
Career NFL statistics as of Week 15,
2009 |
| Tackles |
111 |
| Sacks |
2.0 |
| Forced fumbles |
1 |
| Stats at NFL.com |
Shaun Michael Cody (born January 22, 1983 in Whittier, California) is an American
football defensive tackle for the Houston Texans of
the National Football League. He
was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the second round of the
2005 NFL
Draft. He played college football at Southern
California.
Early
years
Cody attended Los
Altos High School in Hacienda Heights.
Cody also garnered USA
Today All-USA Defensive MVP. He played in the first ever U.S. Army All-American Bowl
game on December 30, 2000.
College
career
Cody was a First-team All-American for
the USC Trojans. As
a senior he had a career-high 45 tackles (29 solo), 10 sacks, 13
stops for losses, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and
three pass deflections. He was team captain and voted PAC-10
co-Defensive Player of the Year. He was the first Trojan since Chris Claiborne
in 1998 to garner Pac-10 Conference Defensive Player of the Year
honors. Cody started for his third season as a junior defensive
tackle in 2003, starting all 13 games, he had 26 tackles, including
10.5 for losses (with 6 sacks), plus a forced fumble, a deflection
and 3 blocked field goals. He was named to the 2003 Third-team AP
All-American and the First-team All-Pac-10. As just a sophomore in
2002, Cody started for his second season at defensive while
starting USC's first 6 games, he had 20 tackles, including 1 for a
loss of 1 yard, a deflection, fumble recovery and blocked field
goal. In 2001 he was a backup defensive lineman for USC's first 4
games, he started the last 8 at tackle. He was a consensus
First-team Freshman All-America selection, Overall in 2001 while
appearing in all 12 games, he had 39 tackles, including 7 for
losses (with 5 sacks), and 1 fumble recovery.
Professional
career
Detroit
Lions
Cody was selected with the fifth pick of the second round of the
2005 NFL Draft
out of the University of Southern California.
He played four seasons for the Lions, recording 91 tackles, 1.5
sacks, one forced fumble and one interceptions in 53 games, before
becoming a free agent following the 2008 season.
Houston
Texans
An unrestricted
free agent in the 2009 offseason, Cody agreed to terms on a
three-year contract with the Houston Texans on March 23, 2009[1].
Personal
Cody participated in a series for Spike TV entitled Super Agent, in
which a number of sports agents competed to work for him and
negotiate his NFL contract.
References
External
links
| USA Today Defensive High School Player of the
Year |
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