Aaron Dashiell is a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 defensive back

Defensive back

In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...

. Dashiell attended the University of Maine

University of Maine

The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...

, where he played with the Maine Black Bears football team. He was named to the Division I-AA All American twice (1998–1999), becoming at the time just Maine's second multiple time All American after John Huard

John Huard

John Roland "Big John" Huard is a former National Football League linebacker and Canadian Football League coach.-Playing career:...

. Stephen Cooper and Jovan Belcher

Jovan Belcher

Jovan Allen Belcher is an American football linebacker with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He played collegiately with the Maine Black Bears. He played defensive end during his junior and senior years, after switching to the position from outside linebacker where he played...

 have done it since.

During his junior season, Dashiell had 100 tackles and 6 interceptions. He is from Plainfield, New Jersey

Plainfield, New Jersey

Plainfield is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population increased to a record high of 49,808....

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