Earl Okine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
| No. 95 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Defensive end | ||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||
| Born | January 4, 1990 Gainesville, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | ||||||||||
| Listed weight | 290 lb (132 kg) | ||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||
| High school | Gainesville | ||||||||||
| College | Florida | ||||||||||
| NFL draft | 2013: undrafted | ||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only | |||||||||||
| Career NFL statistics | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Career Arena League statistics | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Earl James Okine (born January 4, 1990) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators and signed with the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2013. Okine was also a member of the CFL's Calgary Stampeders, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and Toronto Argonauts, the Arena Football League's Orlando Predators, the Fall Experimental Football League's Brooklyn Bolts, the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs and Detroit Lions, and the AAF's Orlando Apollos.
Okine played football and basketball for Gainesville High School. In football, he earned a Third-team Class 5A all-state selection as a senior.[1] He dressed for 6 games in 2008 while with the Florida Gators, but did not appear and decided to redshirt that year. From 2009 to 2012 recorded 27 tackles, 1 sack, and 1 blocked field goal.[2]