Cortez Kennedy

Cortez Kennedy
	Kennedy with the Seattle Seahawks
No. 96, 99
Position:	Defensive tackle
Personal information
Born:	August 23, 1968; Osceola, Arkansas, U.S.
Died:	May 23, 2017 (aged 48); Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:	306 lb (139 kg)
Career information
High school:	Rivercrest; (Wilson, Arkansas)
College:	Miami (FL)
NFL draft:	1990 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3
Career history
	Seattle Seahawks (1990–2000);
Career highlights and awards
	NFL Defensive Player of the Year (1992); 3× First-team All-Pro (1992–1994); 2× Second-team All-Pro (1991, 1996); 8× Pro Bowl (1991–1996, 1998, 1999); NFL 1990s All-Decade Team; PFWA All-Rookie Team (1990); Seattle Seahawks Ring of Honor; Seattle Seahawks No. 96 retired; 2× National champion (1987, 1989); Second-team All-American (1989);
Career NFL statistics
Tackles:
Tackles:	668
Sacks:	58.0
Interceptions:	3
	Player stats at PFR
	Pro Football Hall of Fame

Cortez Kennedy (August 23, 1968 – May 23, 2017) was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle for his entire 11-season career with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012.^[1] He redefined and expanded the possibilities of how a large-bodied interior lineman could be used.^[2] In 1992, he won the Defensive Player of the Year award despite his team finishing 2–14.

Kennedy played collegiate football for the Miami Hurricanes at the University of Miami.

^ "Defensive disruption". NFL Internet Network. Profootballhof.com. July 31, 2012. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved August 5, 2012.
^ NFL (May 23, 2017), Cortez Kennedy's Hall of Fame Career Remembered | NFL Films, retrieved May 23, 2017