Frank Okam, the Glossary
Franklin Nonyelu Okam, Jr. (born October 16, 1985) is an American football coach and former defensive tackle who is the former defensive line coach for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).[1]
Table of Contents
71 relations: All-American Bowl (high school football), American football, Andrew Billings, Associated Press, Basketball, Baylor Bears football, BCS National Championship Game, Big 12 Conference, Bravvion Roy, Brian Burns (American football), California State University, Fresno, Carolina Panthers, CBSSports.com, Chuck Bednarik Award, College football, College Football All-America Team, Dallas, Daviyon Nixon, Defensive tackle, Derrick Brown (American football), Efe Obada, ESPN, Florida Gators football, Florida International University, Fumble, Glossary of American football terms, Green Bay Packers, Hawaii Bowl, High school football, Houston Texans, James Lynch (American football), Josh McDaniels, Lake Highlands High School, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, Marquis Haynes, Matt Rhule, Maxx Crosby, Minnesota Vikings, National Football League, New York Giants, NFL draft, NFL Scouting Combine, Nigerian Americans, Oil Bowl, Oklahoma Sooners football, Oklahoma State Cowboys football, Omaha Nighthawks, Phil Hoskins, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, ... Expand index (21 more) »
- Lake Highlands High School alumni
The All-American Bowl (currently branded as the All-American Bowl presented by American Family Insurance for sponsorship reasons) is a high school football all-star game, held annually at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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Andrew Billings
Andrew Mitchell Billings (born March 6, 1995) is an American football defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL).
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
The Baylor Bears football team represents Baylor University in Division I FBS college football.
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BCS National Championship Game
The BCS National Championship Game, or BCS National Championship, was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college football season as one of four designated bowl games, and beginning in the 2006 season as a standalone event rotated among the host sites of the aforementioned bowls.
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Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas.
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Bravvion Roy
Bravvion Roy (born October 18, 1996) is an American football nose tackle who is a free agent.
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Brian Burns (born April 23, 1998) is an American football linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL).
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California State University, Fresno
California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) is a public university in Fresno, California, United States.
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Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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CBSSports.com
CBSSports.com (formerly CBS SportsLine.com and SportsLine USA) is an American sports news website operated by Paramount Streaming, a division of Paramount Global.
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Chuck Bednarik Award
The Chuck Bednarik Award is presented annually to the defensive player of the year in college football as judged by the Maxwell Football Club to be the best in the United States.
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College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.
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The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best college football players in the United States at their respective positions.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
Daviyon Nixon
Daviyon Nixon (born December 13, 1998) is an American football defensive end who is a free agent.
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Defensive tackle
A defensive tackle (DT) is a position in American football that typically lines up on the line of scrimmage, opposite one of the offensive guards; however, he may also line up opposite one of the offensive tackles.
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Derrick Brown (born April 15, 1998) is an American football defensive end for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).
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Efe Obada
Efe Obada (born April 13, 1992) is a British Nigerian professional American football defensive end for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL).
ESPN
ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.
The Florida Gators football program represents the University of Florida (UF) in American college football.
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Florida International University
Florida International University (FIU) is a public research university with its main campus in University Park, Florida.
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Fumble
A fumble in gridiron football occurs when a player who has possession and control of the ball loses it before being downed (tackled), scoring, or going out of bounds.
The following terms are used in American football, both conventional and indoor.
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Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Hawaii Bowl
The Hawaiʻi Bowl is a college football bowl game that has been played in the Honolulu, Hawaii, area since 2002.
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High school football (football au lycée), also known as prep football, is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada.
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Houston Texans
The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston.
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James Husker Lynch (born January 20, 1999) is an American football nose tackle for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL).
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Josh McDaniels
Joshua Thomas McDaniels (born April 22, 1976) is an American football coach in the National Football League (NFL). Frank Okam and Josh McDaniels are Las Vegas Raiders coaches.
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Lake Highlands High School
Lake Highlands High School (LHHS) is a secondary school serving grades 9–12 in the Lake Highlands area of northeastern Dallas, Texas, United States, primarily serving the Lake Highlands community.
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Las Vegas Raiders
The Las Vegas Raiders are a professional American football team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
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Los Angeles Rams
The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Greater Los Angeles area.
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Marquis Haynes
Marquis Jacori Haynes Sr. (born December 16, 1993) is an American football linebacker who is a free agent.
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Matt Rhule
Matthew Kenneth Rhule (born January 31, 1975) is an American college football coach and former linebacker. Frank Okam and Matt Rhule are Baylor Bears football coaches and Carolina Panthers coaches.
Maxx Crosby
Maxx Robert Crosby (born August 22, 1997) is an American football defensive end for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).
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Minnesota Vikings
The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis.
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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
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New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.
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NFL draft
The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment in the National Football League.
NFL Scouting Combine
The NFL Scouting Combine is a week-long showcase occurring every February at Lucas Oil Stadium (and formerly at the RCA Dome until 2008) in Indianapolis, where college football players perform physical and mental tests in front of National Football League coaches, general managers, and scouts.
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Nigerian Americans
Nigerian Americans (Ṇ́dị́ Naìjíríyà n'Emerịkà; Yan Amurka asalin Najeriya; Àwọn ọmọ Nàìjíríà Amẹ́ríkà) are Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry.
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Oil Bowl
The Oil Bowl was a college football bowl game played three times at Rice Field in Houston, Texas in the 1940s.
The Oklahoma Sooners football team represents the University of Oklahoma (OU) in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level in the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
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The Oklahoma State Cowboys football program represents Oklahoma State University–Stillwater in college football.
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Omaha Nighthawks
The Omaha Nighthawks were a professional American football team based in Omaha, Nebraska, which played in the United Football League, joining the league as an expansion team in 2010.
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Phil Hoskins
Phil Hoskins (born January 2, 1997) is an American football defensive end for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL).
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Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Pine Bluff is the 10th most populous city in the US state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County.
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Quarterback sack
In gridiron football, a sack occurs when the quarterback (or another offensive player acting as a passer) is tackled behind the line of scrimmage before throwing a forward pass, when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage in the "pocket" and without clear intent, or when a passer runs out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage due to defensive pressure.
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The Rice Owls football program represents Rice University in the sport of American football.
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Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle.
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The Stanford Cardinal football program represents Stanford University in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference.
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Starting lineup
In sports, a starting lineup is an official list of the set of players who will participate in the event when the game begins.
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Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida.
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The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate team representing the University of Texas at Austin (variously Texas or UT) in the sport of American football.
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The Sporting News
The Sporting News is a website and former magazine publication owned by Sporting News Holdings, which is a U.S.-based sports media company formed in December 2020 by a private investor consortium.
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Toledo Rockets
The Toledo Rockets are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Toledo.
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Track and field
Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.
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Underclass All-American
Underclass All-American is an honorific for high school and college athletes for excellence in competition.
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University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas.
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Yetur Gross-Matos
Yetur Akkub Gross-Matos (born February 26, 1998) is an American football defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL).
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The 2005 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season, winning the Big 12 Conference championship and the national championship.
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2006 Rose Bowl
The 2006 Rose Bowl Game, played on January 4, 2006, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, was an American college football bowl game that served as the BCS National Championship Game for the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season.
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The 2007 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following All-American Teams: Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America, American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp Foundation, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Pro Football Weekly, ESPN, CBS Sports, College Football News, Rivals.com, and Scout.com.
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The 2007 Texas Longhorns football team (variously "Texas" or "UT" or the "Horns") represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
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2008 NFL draft
The 2008 NFL draft was the 73rd annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible American football players.
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2020 NFL draft
The 2020 NFL draft was the 85th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players for the 2020 NFL season.
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See also
Lake Highlands High School alumni
- Amy Acker
- Andre Tillman
- Blake DeLong
- Chris Harrison
- Darvis Patton
- Derrick Cullors
- Detron Smith
- Don Welchel
- Erin Aldrich
- Frank Okam
- George Gimarc
- Gibby Haynes
- Granger Smith
- James F. Reilly
- Josh Carter
- Justin Boyd (rugby union)
- Justin Leonard
- Kent Perkins
- Kim Wozencraft
- Marcus Coleman
- Mark Salling
- Marshall Newhouse
- Matt Dunigan
- Matt Stover
- Merton Hanks
- Nick Thurman
- Nicole Bilderback
- Paul Broome
- Phil Dawson
- Scoot McNairy
- St. Vincent (musician)
- Tre Johnson (basketball)
- Wade Smith
- Warren Carter (basketball)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Okam
Also known as Franklin Okam, Okam, Frank.
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