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Te XAN S<br />
Height: 6-5<br />
Weight: 272<br />
College: Alabama State<br />
<strong>Home</strong>town: Bessemer, Alabama<br />
4th NFL season<br />
3rd with <strong>Texans</strong><br />
Age as of Kickoff Weekend 2008: 27<br />
Acquired: FA, 2006<br />
2007 GP/GS: 15/0<br />
Career GP/GS: 16/0<br />
Teams: Green Bay, 2003; <strong>Houston</strong>, 2006-07<br />
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EARL COCHRAN<br />
DEFENSIVE END<br />
veterans<br />
TRANSACTIONS: Signed by Green Bay Packers<br />
as an undrafted free agent on July 14, 2003…<br />
Placed on injured reserve list on August 8,<br />
2003…Released by Packers on July 26, 2004…<br />
Signed by Minnesota Vikings on June 20, 2005…<br />
Released by Vikings on September 3, 2005…<br />
Signed by <strong>Houston</strong> <strong>Texans</strong> to the practice squad<br />
on November 14, 2006…Activated on December<br />
27, 2006.<br />
PRO: Athletic young defensive end…has played<br />
in 16 career games, 15 of which came in 2007…<br />
has registered 27 total tackles in his career,<br />
including 21 solo stops…played in NFL Europe<br />
for two seasons…played in 11 games with two<br />
starts at DT for the Amsterdam Admirals from<br />
2004-05, helping the Admirals win World Bowl<br />
XIII in 2005.<br />
2007 (<strong>Houston</strong> 15/0): Played in 15 games in his<br />
second season as a Texan and finished with<br />
25 tackles, including 19 solos, and one sack for<br />
six yards…saw action in the season opener vs.<br />
Kansas City (9/9) and made one solo tackle…<br />
made one tackle on special teams at Carolina<br />
(9/16)…inactive vs. Indianapolis (9/23)…assisted<br />
on one tackle at Atlanta (9/30)…registered one<br />
pass defensed vs. Miami (10/7)…made two solo<br />
stops at Jacksonville (10/14)…served as team<br />
captain and registered three solo tackles vs.<br />
Tennessee (10/21)…saw action at San Diego<br />
(10/28)…made two tackles, including one solo, at<br />
Oakland (11/4)…finished with two solo tackles, a<br />
pass defensed and his first career forced fumble<br />
vs. New Orleans (11/18)…recorded one assisted<br />
tackle at Cleveland (11/25)…made three tackles,<br />
including two solos, at Tennessee (12/2)…<br />
registered his first career sack vs. Tampa Bay<br />
(12/9) when he dropped QB Luke McCown for<br />
a six-yard loss in the fourth quarter…recorded<br />
two total tackles, including one solo, vs. Denver<br />
(12/13)…registered a career-high five tackles,<br />
including four solos, and notched a career-high<br />
two passes defensed at Indianapolis (12/23)…<br />
finished with one solo tackle vs. Jacksonville<br />
(12/30).<br />
2006 (<strong>Houston</strong> 1/0): Saw action in one game as a<br />
reserve DE…registered two solo tackles…joined<br />
the <strong>Texans</strong> in late November…on practice squad<br />
until final game of the season…registered two<br />
solo tackles in his first NFL action vs. Cleveland<br />
(12/31).<br />
2005 Spent training camp with Minnesota Vikings<br />
but was released prior to the regular season.<br />
2004: Out of football for 2004 season.<br />
2003: (Green Bay 0/0): Signed by the Green Bay<br />
Packers as a undrafted free agent…participated<br />
in training camp before being placed on injured<br />
reserve on August 8.<br />
COLLEGE: Earned All-SWAC honors in 2001 and<br />
2002 at Alabama State, garnering first-team<br />
honors in ’01 and second-team in ’02…saw<br />
time at outside linebacker and defensive end at<br />
ASU…was a regular starter for the Hornets for<br />
his final three seasons and led the team in sacks<br />
in each season…had a career-high 9.5 sacks as<br />
a senior in 2002.<br />
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