Jason Paul Taylor (born September 1, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end and linebacker in the National Football League (NFL), spending the majority of his career with the Miami Dolphins. He is currently the defensive ends coach for the Miami Hurricanes. Over the course of his 15-year NFL career, Taylor played for the Dolphins for 13 years in three separate stints (1997–2007, 2009, 2011), and also played a season each for the Washington Redskins (2008) and the New York Jets (2010).
Taylor was a four-year letterman and three-year starter playing college football for the Akron Zips before being selected by the Dolphins in the third round of the 1997 NFL draft with the 73rd overall pick.
Taylor won the Dolphins Team Newcomer of the Year award during his rookie season in 1997, and from then on, quickly established himself as one of the league's best performing defensive ends and pass-rushers in NFL history. He is currently ranked first in Dolphins history for the most games played by a defensive player in team history, with 204 games (including a defensive team record 130 consecutive games), and is also the Miami Dolphins all-time sack leader with 131 sacks. Overall, Taylor is currently 7th on the NFL all-time career sacks list with 139.5 sacks. Taylor has the 4th most forced fumbles of all time with 46, and is the all-time leader in fumble return touchdowns with six, and interceptions returned for touchdowns by a defensive lineman with three, while his 246 fumble return yards are the 4th-highest total in NFL history. With nine career defensive touchdowns scored, he is also the all-time leader in that category for defensive linemen. He officially announced his retirement on December 28, 2011.
Throughout his career with the Dolphins, Taylor won numerous team awards including a team record four Dolphins Team MVP awards (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006), and a team record four Dolphins Team Leadership Awards (2002, 2006–2007, 2009). Along with being a six-time Pro Bowl selection, four-time first (3) or second (1) team All-Pro, a two-time NFL Alumni Defensive Linemen of the Year (2005–2006), and the NFL Alumni Pass-Rusher of the Year in 2000, Taylor was also a two-time AFC Defensive Player of the Year (2002, 2006), and was also named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2006. He was named the NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2007, selected to the NFL 2000s All-Decade Team, and enshrined into the Miami Dolphins Honor Roll in 2012. In 2017, Taylor was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
Read more...The September 1, 1974 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 243 day of the year. President of the United States was Gerald R. Ford.
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Date: 02 September 1974
Time Record, Troy, NY, switchboard is flooded with calls over Aug 31 weekend with complaints that paper had printed no obituaries; managing editor Frank Dobisky repts it did not occur to paper to inform its readers that no one had died (S)
Date: 01 September 1974
By ROBERT REINHOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Many newspapers throughout US are relying on computer journalism to make their news surveys and predictions more accurate; Philip Meyer, natl correspondent of Knight newspapers, is leading proponent of new trend to adopt scientific techniques of polling and data analysis; 22 reporters and editors during wk of Aug 26 completed 3-wk crash course in statistics and experimental method at Northwestern Univ, where theyr formed 1st orgn of 'precision journalists'; reporters Jay Harris (Wilmington News-Journal) and Howard Covington (Charlotte Observer) have taken leaves to study survey methods at major univs; NY Times and Washington Post, early in '74, carried series based on surveys; Time (Pub) has begun carrying qrly feature designed to monitor statistically changing natl mood on various factors; Harvey Kabaker (Washington Star-News), Seymour Topping (Times) and John G Craig Jr (Wilmington News-Journal) comment (M)
Date: 01 September 1974
Louisville Courier-Journal raises cost of Sunday paper to 35c from 30c and raises daily and Sunday editions to $1.05 a wk from 90c
Date: 01 September 1974
Special to The New York Times
Monmouth Museum (NJ) on Sept 15 will open its new $500,000 bldg on Brookdale Community College campus; 1st exhibition in new structure is entitled 'Fantasy of Flight,' which exemplifies museum's format as 'Museum of Ideas' (S)
Date: 02 September 1974
Date: 02 September 1974
Date: 01 September 1974
Exxon Corp says it is destroying all signs and reminders of former corp identity, Esso, 'in ecologically sound manner' (S)
Date: 01 September 1974
Date: 01 September 1974