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colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">No. 50, 95</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Position:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Linebacker" title="Linebacker">Linebacker</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Personal information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Born:</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1972-02-27</span>) </span>February 27, 1972<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 52)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/East_St._Louis,_Illinois" title="East St. Louis, Illinois">East St. Louis, Illinois</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Height:</th><td class="infobox-data">6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">Weight:</th><td class="infobox-data">238 lb (108 kg)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">High school:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/East_St._Louis_Senior_High_School" title="East St. Louis Senior High School">East St. Louis Senior</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">College:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Illinois_Fighting_Illini_football" title="Illinois Fighting Illini football">Illinois</a> (1990–1994)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width: 40%;">NFL draft:</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1995_NFL_draft" title="1995 NFL draft">1995</a> / round: 5 / pick: 168</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career history <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> (<a href="/wiki/1995_NFL_season" title="1995 NFL season">1995</a>)*</li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Rams" title="St. Louis Rams">St. Louis Rams</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a> (<a href="/wiki/1996_NFL_season" title="1996 NFL season">1996</a>–<a href="/wiki/1997_NFL_season" title="1997 NFL season">1997</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles">Philadelphia Eagles</a> (<a href="/wiki/1999_NFL_season" title="1999 NFL season">1999</a>)*</li></ul> →<a href="/wiki/Amsterdam_Admirals" title="Amsterdam Admirals">Amsterdam Admirals</a> (<a href="/wiki/1999_NFL_Europe_season" title="1999 NFL Europe season">1999</a>)</td></tr><tr style="color: var(--color-subtle, #54595d);"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="padding-left:1.5em;"> </span>* Offseason and/or practice squad member only</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career highlights and awards <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Butkus_Award" title="Butkus Award">Butkus Award</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Touchdown_Club_of_Columbus#Jack_Lambert_Trophy" title="Touchdown Club of Columbus">Jack Lambert Award</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_unanimous_All-Americans_in_college_football" title="List of unanimous All-Americans in college football">Unanimous All-American</a> (<a href="/wiki/1994_College_Football_All-America_Team" title="1994 College Football All-America Team">1994</a>)</li> <li>First-team <a href="/wiki/College_Football_All-America_Team" title="College Football All-America Team">All-American</a> (<a href="/wiki/1993_College_Football_All-America_Team" title="1993 College Football All-America Team">1993</a>)</li> <li>2× <a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference_football_individual_awards#Nagurski–Woodson_Defensive_Player_of_the_Year" title="Big Ten Conference football individual awards">Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year</a> (1993,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1994)</li> <li>2× First-team <a href="/wiki/List_of_All-Big_Ten_Conference_football_teams" title="List of All-Big Ten Conference football teams">All-Big Ten</a> (<a href="/wiki/1993_All-Big_Ten_Conference_football_team" title="1993 All-Big Ten Conference football team">1993</a>, <a href="/wiki/1994_All-Big_Ten_Conference_football_team" title="1994 All-Big Ten Conference football team">1994</a>)</li> <li>2× Second-team All-Big Ten (<a href="/wiki/1991_All-Big_Ten_Conference_football_team" title="1991 All-Big Ten Conference football team">1991</a>, <a href="/wiki/1992_All-Big_Ten_Conference_football_team" title="1992 All-Big Ten Conference football team">1992</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.5em; background: #DCDCDC; border: 2px solid #DCDCDC;">Career NFL statistics</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width:50%;">Total <a href="/wiki/Tackle_(football_move)#Gridiron_football" title="Tackle (football move)">tackles</a>:</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:3px;">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; width:50%;"><a href="/wiki/Fumble" title="Fumble">Fumble</a> recoveries:</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:3px;">1</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="padding-left:3px;"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HowaDa20.htm">Stats</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pro_Football_Reference" title="Pro Football Reference">Pro Football Reference</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="pane notheme mw-no-invert" style="background-color: #ffbb00;"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=2423">College Football Hall of Fame</a></b></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Dana Cortez Howard</b> (born February 27, 1972) is an American former professional <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a> <a href="/wiki/Linebacker" title="Linebacker">linebacker</a> who played in the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> (NFL) for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Rams" title="St. Louis Rams">St. Louis Rams</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a>. He played <a href="/wiki/College_football" title="College football">college football</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Illinois_Fighting_Illini_football" title="Illinois Fighting Illini football">Illinois Fighting Illini</a> and was selected by the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> in the fifth round of the <a href="/wiki/1995_NFL_draft" title="1995 NFL draft">1995 NFL draft</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_Howard&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Howard was born in <a href="/wiki/East_St._Louis,_Illinois" title="East St. Louis, Illinois">East St. Louis, Illinois</a>. He had an inauspicious beginning in football, being cut by his head coach in junior high. </p><p>He attended <a href="/wiki/East_St._Louis_High_School" class="mw-redirect" title="East St. Louis High School">East St. Louis High School</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he played both <a href="/wiki/Linebacker" title="Linebacker">linebacker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tight_end" title="Tight end">tight end</a> for the Flyers <a href="/wiki/High_school_football" title="High school football">high school football</a> team coached by <a href="/wiki/Bob_Shannon_(American_football)" title="Bob Shannon (American football)">Bob Shannon</a>. As a senior, he helped the school win the 6A state title, while receiving <a href="/wiki/Parade_All-America" class="mw-redirect" title="Parade All-America">Parade All-America</a> and All-state honors. In <a href="/wiki/Track_%26_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Track & field">track</a> he once threw the <a href="/wiki/Shot_put" title="Shot put">shot put</a> 60'. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="College_career">College career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_Howard&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: College career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Howard accepted a football scholarship from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana-Champaign" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign">University of Illinois</a>, where he became a four-year starter. After being <a href="/wiki/Redshirt_(college_sports)" title="Redshirt (college sports)">redshirted</a> because the team had starter <a href="/wiki/Darrick_Brownlow" title="Darrick Brownlow">Darrick Brownlow</a> at <a href="/wiki/Middle_linebacker" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle linebacker">middle linebacker</a>, in his freshman season he posted 134 tackles (conference record) and 4 sacks. He made a career-high 24 total tackles and a school record 20 solo tackles against <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_University" title="Ohio State University">Ohio State University</a>. He had 23 tackles against the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>. </p><p>From the start of his sophomore season he was a member of a talented linebacker corps that included fellow standouts <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Hardy_(linebacker)" title="Kevin Hardy (linebacker)">Kevin Hardy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simeon_Rice" title="Simeon Rice">Simeon Rice</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Holecek" title="John Holecek">John Holecek</a>. He registered 138 tackles and 4 forced fumbles. He had 18 tackles against the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> and 17 against <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_University" title="Ohio State University">Ohio State University</a>. </p><p>As a junior, he had 123 tackles and 4 passes defensed. He made 17 tackles against the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>. </p><p>As a senior in 1994, he recorded career-highs in tackles (141), tackles for loss (9), fumble recoveries (4) and interceptions (2), while also making 3 sacks and 2 forced fumbles. He tallied 18 tackles against <a href="/wiki/Purdue_University" title="Purdue University">Purdue University</a> and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>. He was recognized as a consensus first-team <a href="/wiki/College_Football_All-America_Team" title="College Football All-America Team">All-American</a> that season, becoming the first Illini player to win the <a href="/wiki/Dick_Butkus_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Dick Butkus Award">Dick Butkus Award</a> and <a href="/wiki/Touchdown_Club_of_Columbus#The_Jack_Lambert_Trophy" title="Touchdown Club of Columbus">Jack Lambert Award</a>, both presented annually to the best linebacker in college football. </p><p>He was the first player in school history to register at least 100 tackles in each of his four seasons, to lead the team in tackles for four straight years and he also finished as the all-time leading <a href="/wiki/Tackle_(football_move)" title="Tackle (football move)">tackler</a> in school and conference history with 595. </p><p>In 2017, he was inducted into the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, he was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/College_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="College Football Hall of Fame">College Football Hall of Fame</a>. In 2018, he was inducted into the Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_career">Professional career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_Howard&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Professional career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dallas_Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_Howard&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Dallas Cowboys"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Howard was selected by the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> in the fifth round (168th overall) of the <a href="/wiki/1995_NFL_draft" title="1995 NFL draft">1995 NFL draft</a>, after dropping because of size concerns.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was waived on August 27. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="St._Louis_Rams">St. Louis Rams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_Howard&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: St. Louis Rams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On August 28, <a href="/wiki/1995_NFL_season" title="1995 NFL season">1995</a>, he was signed by the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Rams" title="St. Louis Rams">St. Louis Rams</a>. He played in 16 games as a rookie. He was released on August 20, <a href="/wiki/1996_NFL_season" title="1996 NFL season">1996</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chicago_Bears">Chicago Bears</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_Howard&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Chicago Bears"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On November 6, <a href="/wiki/1996_NFL_season" title="1996 NFL season">1996</a>, he signed with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> playing in three games before breaking a finger and being placed on the <a href="/wiki/Injured_reserve_list" title="Injured reserve list">injured reserve list</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wasn't re-signed at the end of the year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philadelphia_Eagles">Philadelphia Eagles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_Howard&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Philadelphia Eagles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On February 11, <a href="/wiki/1999_NFL_season" title="1999 NFL season">1999</a>, he was signed by the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles">Philadelphia Eagles</a>. He was allocated to the <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam_Admirals" title="Amsterdam Admirals">Amsterdam Admirals</a> of <a href="/wiki/NFL_Europe" title="NFL Europe">NFL Europe</a> in the offseason. He was cut on September 4.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_Howard&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He is the owner of Zoie LLC DBA Dana Howard Construction Company based in <a href="/wiki/Belleville,_Illinois" title="Belleville, Illinois">Belleville, Illinois</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dana_Howard&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes and references"><span>edit</span></a><span 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