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Jim Mitchell (tight end)

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Role
  
American football player

College
  
Prairie View A&M

Height
  
1.88 m


1969-1979
  
Atlanta Falcons

Weight
  
106 kg

Name
  
Jim Mitchell

Positions
  
Tight end

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Date of birth
  
(1947-10-19)October 19, 1947

Date of death
  
October 20, 2007(2007-10-20) (aged 60)

NFL draft
  
1969 / Round: 4 / Pick: 81

Died
  
October 20, 2007, Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States

Education
  
Prairie View A&M University

Place of birth
  
Shelbyville, Tennessee

James Robert Mitchell (October 19, 1947 – October 20, 2007) was a professional American football player. A 6'2", 234 lbs. tight end from Prairie View A&M University, Mitchell played 11 seasons from 1969-1979 for the Atlanta Falcons and was selected to the Pro Bowl after the 1969 and 1972 seasons. After leaving the NFL, Jim Mitchell coached football at Morehouse College and Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, supporting the tradition of football at historically black colleges and universities. Jim Mitchell has three sons and a daughter: Damian Mitchell, Brandon Hodges, a football player at Bethune-Cookman University who has a major in Pre-med Chemistry, Davin Mitchell, a Duke University trained anesthesiologist and Chanee Lee, a N.C Central graduate with a masters in Business. And two grandchildren: Justin Mitchell who is a scholar at Lakeside High School in Atlanta, GA. And Jordan Mitchell.

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