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KARL PAYMAH24 CORNERBACKHeight: 6-0 | Weight: 195 | College: Washington State |Hometown: Culver City, California | 6th NFL Season |1st with Texans | Age as of Kickoff Weekend 2010: 27 |Acquired: FA-’10 | 2010 GP/GS: 2/0 | Career GP/GS: 74/7 |Teams: Denver, 2005-08; Minnesota, 2009; Houston 2010 |TRANSACTIONS: Selected by Denver Broncosin the third round (76th overalll) of the 2005 NFLDraft...Signed with Broncos on July 28, 2005...Signed by Minnesota Vikings as an unrestrictedfree agent on March 19, 2009...Signed by SanFrancisco 49ers as an unrestricted free agent onMarch 17, 2010...Released by 49ers on September3, 2010...Signed by Houston Texans on September29, 2010.PRO: Physical veteran corner who signed withthe Texans in Week 4...will be counted on toprovide depth and veteran leadership to a youngsecondary...immediately becomes the team’smost experienced cornerback...has played in 74games with seven starts and has three career interceptions,15 passes defensed and two fumblerecoveries.2010 (Houston 2/0): Made his Texans debut atOakland (10/3), where he had one special teamstackle...inactive vs. NY Giants (10/10)...made onespecial teams tackle vs. Kansas City (10/17).2009 (Minnesota 12/2): Played in 12 games withtwo starts for the NFC North champion Vikings...finished the year with 15 tackles, including 13solo stops, one forced fumble and two passesdefensed...also made 12 tackles on specialteams...forced a fumble at St. Louis (10/11)...started and made three tackles, including twosolos and one for loss, and batted down a passat Pittsburgh (10/25)...started at Green Bay (11/1)and made three tackles, including two solos...made a season-high four solo tackles vs. Seattle(11/22)...recorded a pass defensed vs. Chicago(11/29)...inactive for the final four games and forboth playoff games.2008 (Denver 16/2): Played in all 16 games withtwo starts...finished the season with 28 tackles,25 solos, one interception, a fumble recovery andfive passes defensed...he also made 11 tackleson special teams...made three solo stops andknocked down a pass vs. San Diego (9/14)...started and recorded a career-high 12 tackles,including 11 solos, to go along with an interceptionand two passes defensed vs. Miami (11/2)...returned that interception 13 yards...started andmade five tackles, including four solos, and recovereda fumble at Cleveland (11/6).2007 (Denver 15/3): Saw action in 15 games withthree starts, finishing the year with 14 tackles, including13 solos, a career-high two interceptionsand five passes defensed...also made seventackles on special teams...made his first careerstart at Kansas City (11/11) and made a seasonhighthree solo tackles and his first interceptionof the season...made three solo tackles againthe following week vs. Tennessee (11/19)...madeone solo tackle, intercepted a pass and had twopasses defensed at Chicago (11/25)...started atHouston (12/13) and again vs. Minnesota (12/30).2006 (Denver 16/0): Played in all 16 games for thefirst time in his career and finished the seasonwith 14 tackles, all solo stops...also recovereda fumble, registered two passes defensed andmade 12 tackles on special teams...made threesolo stops at Pittsburgh (11/5)...recovered a fumbleat Oakland (11/12)...registered a season-highsix solo tackles and knocked down one pass atArizona (12/17)...made two tackles and batteddown a pass vs. Cincinnati (12/24).2005 (Denver 13/0): Played in 13 games as a rookieand ended the season three tackles, includingtwo solos...saw extensive action on specialteams and finished the year with 11 tackles inpunt and kick coverage duty...made his NFL debutat Jacksonvile (10/2)...made a season-highthree special teams tackles at the New York Giants(10/23)...followed that up with two specialHOUSTONTEXANS.COM