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Position: | Defensive end | ||||||||
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Born: | Ligonier, Indiana, U.S. | October 4, 1974||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 300 lb (136 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | West Noble (Ligonier) | ||||||||
College: | Michigan | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1998 / round: 4 / pick: 105 | ||||||||
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James Lendale Steele Jr. (/ˈstiːl/; born October 4, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive lineman and spent his entire six-year National Football League (NFL) career with the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals selected him in the 1998 NFL draft.[2] He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning first-team All-American honors at defensive end as a member of the undefeated national champion 1997 Wolverines team.