Carnell Augustino Lake was born on July 15,1967 and is an American former professional football player and coach.
39 Facts About Carnell Lake
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Carnell Lake was a safety and cornerback in the National Football League.
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Carnell Lake is a member of the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team.
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Carnell Lake was the cornerbacks coach for the UCLA Bruins under head coach Rick Neuheisel in 2009 before leaving after one season for family reasons.
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Carnell Lake was the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive backs coach until February 2018.
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Carnell Lake finished his college career with 45.5 tackles for loss and 25.5 sacks.
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Carnell Lake played safety in both games as multiple teams were interested in moving him to safety as he was considered to be too small to continue to play linebacker professionally.
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Head coach Chuck Noll named Carnell Lake the starting strong safety to begin his rookie season, alongside free safety Thomas Everett and cornerbacks Rod Woodson and Dwayne Woodruff.
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Carnell Lake played his first three seasons under defensive backs coach John Fox.
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Carnell Lake made a one-handed interception off of a pass by Browns' quarterback Bernie Kosar.
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Carnell Lake finished his rookie season in 1989 with 70 combined tackles, six fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles, one interception, and one sack in 15 games and 15 starts.
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Carnell Lake started in all 16 games in 1990 and recorded 67 combined tackles, two forced fumbles, a fumble recovery, an interception, and a sack.
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Carnell Lake started in all 16 games in 1991 and recorded 83 combined tackles and a sack.
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Head coach Bill Cowher retained Carnell Lake the starting strong safety in 1992.
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Carnell Lake started in all 16 games in 1992 and recorded 85 combined tackles and two sacks.
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Carnell Lake's injury sidelined him for the next two games.
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Carnell Lake finished the season with 91 combined tackles, five sacks, a career-high four interceptions, two fumble recoveries, and a forced fumble in 14 games and 14 starts.
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On December 16,1994, it was announced that Carnell Lake was selected to play in the 1995 Pro Bowl as the Starting Strong Safety, to mark the first Pro Bowl selection of his career.
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Carnell Lake started in all 16 games in 1994 and recorded 68 combined tackles, three forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, a sack, and an interception.
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On December 15,1995, it was announced that Carnell Lake was selected to the 1996 Pro Bowl as a safety.
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Carnell Lake started in all 16 games in 1995 and recorded 63 combined tackles, 1.5 sacks, one interception, a forced fumble, and fumble recovery.
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Carnell Lake started the last nine regular season games at cornerback.
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On December 13,1996, it was announced that Carnell Lake was selected to play in the 1997 Pro Bowl, marking the third consecutive Pro Bowl selection or his career.
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In 1997, Carnell Lake was named AFC Defensive Player of the Year by the Kansas City Committee of 101.
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Carnell Lake received a vote for MVP from Sports Illustrated writer Peter King, which created a situation where Barry Sanders and Brett Favre tied for the award that season.
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In 1999, Carnell Lake departed the Pittsburgh Steelers and joined the Jacksonville Jaguars in free agency.
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Carnell Lake was moved to a new position as free safety, making the Pro Bowl for a fifth time.
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Carnell Lake was reunited with Jaguars' defensive coordinator Dom Capers, who had previously held the same position with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Carnell Lake elected to have a bone graft and had a piece of his hip bone grafted to his injured left foot.
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Carnell Lake was reunited Baltimore Ravens' defensive coordinator Marvin Lewis, who was a linebackers coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1992 to 1995, and former teammates Rod Woodson and Leon Searcy.
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In summer 2009, Carnell Lake, along with former Steeler Greg Lloyd, was a coaching intern at the Philadelphia Eagles training camp at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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In June 2010, Carnell Lake was hired by Jerry Simon to be the assistant coach of the Marina High School boys' basketball team.
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On March 7,2011, Carnell Lake was hired as the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive backs coach.
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Carnell Lake left that position as of February 7,2018, to "return to California to be a part of his youngest son's last year of high school football".
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Carnell Lake did live in the San Francisco Bay Area for three years and attended Bowditch Middle School in Foster City, California.
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Carnell Lake attended Culver City High School, where he played varsity football for three years.
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Carnell Lake started on both sides of the ball as running back and linebacker.
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Carnell Lake attended elementary school in Culver City prior to his move to San Francisco.
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Carnell Lake is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, an African American Greek-letter fraternity.