Jason Sehorn

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Jason Sehorn
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Position: Cornerback
Personal information
Born: (1971-04-15) April 15, 1971 (age 53)
Sacramento, California, U.S.
Height:6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:213 lb (97 kg)
Career information
High school: Mt. Shasta (Mount Shasta, California)
College:
NFL draft: 1994  / Round: 2 / Pick: 59
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Tackles:458
Interceptions:19
Touchdowns:5
Player stats at NFL.com  ·  PFR

Jason Heath Sehorn (born April 15, 1971) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants from 1994 to 2002 and St. Louis Rams in 2003. He played college football for the USC Trojans. [1]

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Early years

Sehorn was born in Sacramento, California. He played only one year of high school football at Mount Shasta High School in Mount Shasta, California. [2]

Sehorn was signed by the Chicago Cubs after just one season of playing American Legion Baseball following his senior year of high school. An outfielder, Sehorn failed to produce as a hitter, batting just .184 in 49 games in 1990 for the rookie league Huntington Cubs. [3] Sehorn would then turn his focus to playing football.

College career

Sehorn played his first two years of college football at Shasta College, a junior college in Redding, California, where he was a standout wide receiver, kick returner and punt returner. [2] He then played two years at the University of Southern California, where he was moved to defense, playing safety and cornerback. [4] [5]

Professional career

Pre-draft measurables
HeightWeightArm lengthHand span 40-yard dash 10-yard split20-yard split 20-yard shuttle Vertical jump
6 ft 1+3⁄4 in
(1.87 m)		218 lb
(99 kg)		31 in
(0.79 m)		9+5⁄8 in
(0.24 m)		4.37 s1.61 s2.66 s4.25 s35.0 in
(0.89 m)
All values from NFL Combine [6]

Sehorn was drafted in the second round of the 1994 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. [7] He spent most of his career playing cornerback for them.

After back-to-back successful seasons in 1996–97, Sehorn suffered a debilitating knee injury, tearing his anterior cruciate (ACL) and medial collateral ligaments (MCL) while returning the opening kickoff in a 1998 preseason game against the New York Jets. [8] Though Sehorn returned the next season, his speed was diminished. Still, he started 73 games for the Giants at cornerback in six seasons played from 1996 to 2002. He represented the Giants in Super Bowl XXXV.

The Giants released Sehorn on March 7, 2003, and in May of that year, he signed with the St. Louis Rams as a safety. [9] [10] He missed the first six games of the season with a broken foot, but played in the last ten. The next year, his contract with the Rams was terminated after he failed a physical examination before the start of the 2004 season. [11]

In media

Sehorn participated in ABC's Superstars competition during the NFL offseason. As a testament to his athleticism, he won the competition three consecutive years from 1998 to 2000. [12]

In 2005, Sehorn joined Fox Sports Net, where he was a panelist on their Sunday NFL pregame show. [13]

Sehorn is also a college football analyst for ESPNU. He joined the network in 2011 as the in-studio analyst for Thursday and Saturday night games on ESPNU. [14]

Sehorn is now the Director of Communications at the Hendrick Automotive Group in Charlotte, North Carolina, an automotive retailer in the United States. [15]

Personal life

Sehorn was briefly married to former CNN correspondent Whitney Casey from February 14, 1998, until their divorce in 1999. [16] His marriage to actress Angie Harmon is well known due to his unusual and public proposal. During one of Harmon's appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , Sehorn (with the assistance of host Jay Leno) [17] hid backstage and surprised Harmon by getting on one knee and asking for her hand in marriage in front of a live studio audience and millions more watching on television. They were married on June 9, 2001. [18] They have three daughters: [19] Finley, born October 14, 2003; [20] [21] Avery, born June 22, 2005; [22] and Emery, born December 18, 2008. [23] [24] Both publicly support the Republican Party. [25] The couple announced in November 2014 that they were separating after 13 years of marriage, [26] and divorced in December 2015. Sehorn remarried, to Meghann Gunderman, in 2017. They have a daughter named Sage. [27]

On January 19, 1999, Sehorn's high school jersey #1 was retired by his alma mater, Mt. Shasta High School, in a ceremony hosted by his longtime friend, mentor, and former coach, Joe Blevins. The ceremony aired on local cable television. [28]

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  8. ↑ MAXYMUK, John (November 10, 2009). "Giants Stadium Countdown: Sehorn's Interception". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2009.
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  14. ↑ Jason Sehorn 2/3/17. fox4now.com. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
  15. ↑ Hendrick Automotive Group "Day of Service" a record-breaking success. hendrickcars.com. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
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  22. ↑ "Harmon, Sehorn Welcome Birth of Daughter". Associated Press. June 27, 2005 – via Fox News. The 32-year-old actress gave birth Wednesday [June 22, 2005] to Avery Grace Sehorn in her hometown of Dallas, publicist Troy Nankin said.
  23. ↑ "Angie Harmon gives birth to third daughter". Associated Press. December 19, 2008 – via Today. Emery Hope Sehorn was born Thursday, said Harmon's publicist, Nicole Perna.
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