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Earl MITCHELL92 DEFENSIVE TACKLEHeight: 6-3 | Weight: 300 | College: Arizona |Hometown: Galena Park, Texas | 1st NFL Season |1st with Texans | Age as of Kickoff Weekend 2010: 22 |Acquired: D3-’10 (81st overall) | 2010 GP/GS: 6/0 |Career GP/GS: 6/0 | Teams: Houston, 2010 |TRANSACTIONS: Selected by the Houston Texansin the third round (81st overall) of the 2010NFL Draft...Signed by Texans on June 10, 2010.2010 (Houston 6/0): Saw action at defensivetackle in his professional debut vs. Indianapolis(9/12)...made two tackles (one solo) at Washington(9/19)...had two solo tackles vs. Dallas (9/26)and at Oakland (10/3)...made five tackles (onesolo) vs. NY Giants (10/10)...made three tackles(one solo) vs. Kansas City (10/17).COLLEGE: Played in 49 games with 37 starts forArizona, starting 12 of 24 games at tight end/Hback,and all 25 games at defensive tackle…ondefense, he recorded 88 tackles (50 solos) witheight sacks for minus 42 yards, 18 stops for lossestotaling 60 yards and one quarterback pressure…alsocaused one fumble, deflected twopasses, and blocked one punt…on offense, hecaught 14 passes for 174 yards (12.43 avg) andtwo touchdowns…added seven yards on fourcarries (1.75 ypc), and returned on kickoff foreight yards.2009: All-Pacific 10 Conference second-team selectionby the league’s coaches…named to thepreseason watch list for the Lombardi Award…the defensive co-captain started 12 games andled Arizona defensive linemen with 48 tackles (34solos), as he ranked seventh in the Pac-10 and60th in the nation with an average of 1.04 tacklesfor loss per game, totaling 12.5 stops for minus-46yards…made 6.5 sacks for losses of 32 yards…collected one pressure, one forced fumble, andone pass deflection…earned Pac-10 DefensivePlayer of the Week honors vs. Southern California.2008: Shifted to the defensive side of the ball,starting all 13 games at left defensive tackle…put on 30 pounds in strength training to supportthe move to defense…finished with 40 tackles(16 solos), 1.5 sacks for minus-10 yards, 5.5 stopsfor losses of 14 yards and a pass deflection.2007: Played in 12 games at fullback and H-Back…caught five passes for 38 yards (7.6 ypc)and a TD, adding an eight-yard kick return vs.UCLA…scored the team’s first TD from its newspread formation when he caught a seven-yardtoss at the end of the Brigham Young clash.2006: The 250-pound fullback started sevengames while seeing action in all 12 games asa true freshman…rushed four times for sevenyards and caught nine passes for 136 yards(15.1 ypc)…blocked a punt vs. LSU, adding twocatches for 26 yards…had a 27-yard receptionvs. Washington State and two grabs for 45 yardsand a score in a 37-10 triumph over Oregon.HIGH SCHOOL: Attended North Shore (GalenaPark, Tex.) High School…earned first-teamAll-District 23-5A honors, as well as SuperPrepAll-Midlands and All-Southwest…as a senior,helped his team to an 11-1 record, with theironly loss coming in the area playoffs…rated theninth-best tight end by Texas High School Football…listedas a Houston Chronicle Top 5 areareceivers recruit, one of Dave Campbell’s TexasFootball Top 10 tight ends, and a Dallas MorningNews State 100 selection…ranked 82nd onthe San Antonio Express-News Texas 100 andnamed an area top prospect by Port ArthurNews…earned postseason Texas 100 honorsfrom Rivals.com, as that recruiting service gavehim a three-star rating and listed him as the na-HOUSTONTEXANS.COM