{"id":360221,"date":"2026-07-03T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:52:09","slug":"former-texas-am-and-texans-linebacker-keith-mitchell-dies-at-age-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360221\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Texas A&#038;M and Texans linebacker Keith Mitchell dies at age 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Mitchell, a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/aggies\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas A&amp;M<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWrecking Crew\u201d defense in the 1990s has died,\u00a0 the school announced.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, who played in high school at Garland Lakeview Centennial, played at A&amp;M from 1993-96. He was 51.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies defense, dubbed the \u201cWrecking Crew,\u201d helped A&amp;M to the 1993 SWC championship and a 10-0-1 season in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was inducted into the Texas A&amp;M Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015. He ranks fourth in A&amp;M history with 34.0 career sacks, and his 14.5 sacks in 1996 are sixth on the school\u2019s single-season list.<\/p>\n<p>He played seven seasons in the NFL from 1997-2003 with the New Orleans Saints, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars. In his one season in Houston (2002), he played in 11 games and had 28 tackles and one sack.<\/p>\n<p>The Mitchell family described his passing as \u201csudden and unexpectd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Mitchell, a member of Texas A&amp;M\u2019s \u201cWrecking Crew\u201d defense in the 1990s has died,\u00a0 the school announced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,127932],"class_list":["post-360221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tsn-texans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360221","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=360221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}