Mark Pike
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Position: | Linebacker Defensive end Special teamer | ||||||||
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Born: | Elizabethtown, Kentucky, U.S. | December 27, 1963||||||||
Died: | December 8, 2021 | (aged 57)||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 272 lb (123 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Dixie Heights (Edgewood, Kentucky) | ||||||||
College: | Georgia Tech | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1986 / round: 7 / pick: 178 | ||||||||
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Mark Harold Pike (December 27, 1963 – December 8, 2021) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker, defensive end, and special teamer for twelve seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Buffalo Bills. He was originally selected in the seventh round of the 1986 NFL Draft by the Bills.[1] He played in four Super Bowls.
Biography
[edit]Pike was a graduate of Dixie Heights High School in Erlanger, Kentucky.[2]
He died on December 8, 2021, at age 57, from non-Hodgkin lymphoma complicated by COVID-19 pneumonia.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "1986 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ Mark Pike Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. databasefootball.com
- ^ Brown, Chris (December 8, 2021). "Bills special teams stalwart Mark Pike passes away". www.buffalobills.com. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
Categories:
- 1963 births
- 2021 deaths
- American football defensive linemen
- Buffalo Bills players
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
- Players of American football from Kentucky
- People from Elizabethtown, Kentucky
- Deaths from non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football defensive lineman, 1960s birth stubs