COLLEGE STATION \u2013 Texas A&M Athletics Hall of Famer and former All-American linebacker Keith Mitchell has passed away.<\/p>\n
Mitchell lettered four seasons for the Aggies from 1993-96 and was a cornerstone of one of the nation’s top defensive units. He helped lead Texas A&M to the 1993 Southwest Conference Championship and was a member of the Aggies’ undefeated 10-0-1 squad in 1994. Mitchell earned All-Southwest Conference honors in 1995 before garnering All-Big 12 and All-America recognition following his senior season in 1996.<\/p>\n
Inducted into the Texas A&M Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015, Mitchell remains one of the most accomplished defensive players in program history. He ranks fourth all-time at Texas A&M with 34.0 career sacks and is tied for sixth on the program’s single-season sacks list with 14.5 in 1996.<\/p>\n
Mitchell went on to play seven seasons in the NFL from 1997-2003 with the New Orleans Saints, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars. He earned Pro Bowl honors following the 2000 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION \u2013 Texas A&M Athletics Hall of Famer and former All-American linebacker Keith Mitchell has passed away.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-360100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}