Josh Evans (defensive lineman)
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Position: | Defensive tackle | ||||||
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Born: | Langdale, Alabama, U.S. | September 6, 1972||||||
Died: | February 4, 2021 Fayetteville, Georgia, U.S. | (aged 48)||||||
Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 280 lb (127 kg) | ||||||
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College: | UAB | ||||||
Undrafted: | 1995 | ||||||
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Mijoshki Antwon Evans (September 6, 1972 – February 4, 2021) was an American football player.
Career[]
Evans played collegiately at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama with whom he was a four-year starter. Evans was signed as an undrafted free agent in 1995 by the Houston Oilers and stayed with them during the franchise's move to Tennessee. In 1999, the Titans made it to Super Bowl XXXIV in which Evans started. However, they lost to the Kurt Warner-led St. Louis Rams. In 2000, Evans served a one-year suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy. In 2002, Evans signed to play with the New York Jets with whom he spent the last three seasons of his NFL career.
Evans died in February 2021 at the age of 48 after a battle with kidney cancer.[1]
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- 1972 births
- 2021 deaths
- African-American players of American football
- American football defensive tackles
- Deaths from kidney cancer
- Houston Oilers players
- New York Jets players
- People from Valley, Alabama
- Players of American football from Alabama
- Tennessee Oilers players
- Tennessee Titans players
- UAB Blazers football players
- 20th-century African-American people
- 21st-century African-American people
- Deaths from cancer in Georgia (U.S. state)
- American football defensive lineman, 1970s birth stubs