Bryant Lee Mix (born July 28, 1972) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...

defensive end Defensive end (DE) is a defensive position in the sport of gridiron football. This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations over the years have substantially changed how the position is p ...

who played two seasons with the Houston/Tennessee Oilers of the

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. He was drafted by the

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in the second round of the 1996 NFL Draft (38th Overall). He first enrolled at Northwest Mississippi Community College before transferring to

Alcorn State University Alcorn State University (Alcorn State, ASU or Alcorn) is a public historically black land-grant university adjacent to Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871 and was the first black land grant college established in the United States. ...

. Mix attended Water Valley High School in Water Valley, Mississippi. He now coaches at the school, winning a state championship in 2018.

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