1. Channing Crowder played college football for Florida Gators, earning first-team All-American honors in 2004.
42 Facts About Channing Crowder
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Channing Crowder is currently a panelist on the weekly highlight show Inside the NFL a role he has held since the show first moved to The CW in 2023.
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Channing Crowder was a highly regarded linebacker for North Springs High School in Sandy Springs, Georgia who garnered prep All-America recognition.
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Channing Crowder was named to SuperPrep's All-America Team and that publication ranked him among the nation's top 30 linebackers.
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Channing Crowder collected All-America honors from PrepStar and that publication ranked him among the Southeast's top 10 linebackers.
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Channing Crowder was named one of the top four linebackers in the state of Georgia by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Channing Crowder accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Ron Zook's Florida Gators football team in 2003 and 2004.
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Channing Crowder was an original member of Florida's 2002 signing class, but delayed his enrollment until January 2003 in order to complete rehabilitation of his knee.
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Channing Crowder joined the Gators and practiced with the team prior to the 2003 Outback Bowl.
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Channing Crowder ranked first among linebackers, first among Florida's true freshmen and tied for ninth on the team with 816 plays despite missing two games.
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Channing Crowder became the first true freshman of 2003 to start for the Gators and was the first true freshman linebacker to start since Travis Harris started four games in 2000.
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Channing Crowder returned against eventual national champion LSU 10 days after surgery to lead the linebacking unit with seven tackles.
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Channing Crowder had five tackles for loss, two sacks, four pass breakups and a forced fumble.
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Channing Crowder led the defense with 12 tackles and one pass deflection against Arkansas, and led the defense against Vanderbilt with a then career-high 15 tackles.
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Channing Crowder caused Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen to throw a game-turning interception, that set up a touchdown and gave Florida the win.
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Channing Crowder was the Gators' leader in tackles across six games, and was third on squad with 8.5 tackles for loss.
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Channing Crowder recorded a career-high two quarterback sacks against LSU's JaMarcus Russell.
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Channing Crowder notched an SEC and career-best 18 tackles and forced the second fumble of his career against Mississippi State.
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Channing Crowder recovered his third career fumble and notched three tackles in the Peach Bowl against Miami.
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Channing Crowder was originally drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the third round in the 2005 NFL draft.
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Channing Crowder opened 11 games at the weakside spot and two in the middle.
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Channing Crowder ranked second on the team with 90 tackles, the highest total by a Dolphins rookie since Zach Thomas tallied 164 in 1996.
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Channing Crowder added two fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles and four passes defensed on the year.
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Channing Crowder replaced an injured Thomas at middle linebacker for games during the season.
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Channing Crowder prevented a potential touchdown against the Atlanta Falcons when he forced the ball loose from fullback Justin Griffith with the Falcons at the Dolphins' 8 yard-line, and was recovered by Travis Daniels.
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Channing Crowder was a reliable starter in 2006 and continued to progress as a player.
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Channing Crowder finished second on the Dolphins with 104 tackles and had one sack for nine yards in losses that season.
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Channing Crowder had four games of double-figure tackles, and tied or led the team in tackles three times and finished second on the team in tackles six times during the season.
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An unrestricted free agent in the 2009 offseason, Channing Crowder was re-signed to a three-year contract by the Dolphins on February 25,2009.
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On December 6,2009, against the New England Patriots, Channing Crowder made his first career interception and sealed the win off for the Dolphins.
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Channing Crowder suffered a right foot injury which made him miss a game versus the Houston Texans.
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Just over a week later on August 9,2011, Channing Crowder abruptly announced his retirement from the NFL.
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On February 1,2012, Channing Crowder appeared on the Super Bowl's Radio Row and announced his intention to restart his professional career.
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Channing Crowder is the son of former NFL defensive lineman Randy Channing Crowder, who was a sixth-round pick by the Dolphins in 1974.
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Channing Crowder is married to wife Aja, and the couple have appeared together on VH1 reality television series Baller Wives.
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On January 23,2008, Channing Crowder lost control of his truck on a wet exit ramp and crashed it into a tree.
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Channing Crowder was unharmed and was charged with careless driving and leaving the scene of a crash.
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Channing Crowder later implied that he did not believe there were any black people in London as well.
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On June 27,2011, Channing Crowder insinuated on his new radio show that he had sold his jerseys while playing college football for the Florida Gators, but he later reiterated that he had not sold them.
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Channing Crowder was a commentator on WQAM during the 2011 NFL season.
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Channing Crowder's midday show on WQAM with NBC 6 news anchor, Adam Kuperstein, was recently cancelled.
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Channing Crowder was a part of Brandon Marshall's podcast I AM ATHLETE, alongside Chad Johnson and Fred Taylor.