Aaron Maybin
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Buffalo Bills
On August 21, 2009, Maybin agreed to a five-year deal with the Buffalo Bills after being drafted with the 11th pick in the first round. He finished the season with 18 tackles and zero sacks while playing in all 16 regular season games during his 2009 rookie year.In his second season, Maybin was considered a disappointment. Through six games, he played on only 66 downs, with five tackles and zero sacks. He was deactivated as a healthy-scratch for the team's sixth game at Baltimore.
On August 15, 2011, Maybin was waived by the Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
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New York Jets
The New York JetsNew York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
signed Maybin to a one-year contract for the league minimum on August 17, 2011. He was waived on September 4, 2011. Maybin was re-signed by the Jets on September 28, 2011.
In his first regular season game with the Jets, Maybin recorded his first career sack, a strip-sack, against Joe Flacco
Joe Flacco
Flacco was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens 18th overall in the 2008 NFL Draft, becoming the highest drafted player ever from the University of Delaware...
on October 2, 2011. Maybin recorded his second career sack, another strip sack, on October 17 against Matt Moore
Matt Moore
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. He recorded another sack for the second consecutive week on October 23 against Philip Rivers
Philip Rivers
Philip Rivers is an American football quarterback for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League . He was one half of the Manning-Rivers draft trade which sent him to San Diego and the 1st overall pick, Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning, to the New York Giants. Rivers played college...
. Maybin recorded the first two-sack game of his career against the Bills, on November 27, 2011.
Personal
Maybin was born to Constance and Michael Maybin in Baltimore. He was diagnosed with borderline attention deficit disorder when he was young. His parents sought out alternatives to drug treatment which included sketching, sculpting, wrestling, baseball and football, which he began play at the Pee-WeePop Warner Little Scholars
Pop Warner Little Scholars is a non-profit organization that provides youth football, cheerleading, and dance programs for participants in 43 U.S. states and several countries around the world. It is headquartered in Langhorne, Pennsylvania...
level at the age of 5. When Maybin was 6, his mother suffered preeclampsia that complicated childbirth
Childbirth
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. Though doctors were able to revive his stillborn sister, Constance Jr., his mother passed away after going into cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest
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. His father later remarried to an English missionary, Violette Grant, whom Maybin calls his mother. He attended Mount Hebron High School
Mount Hebron High School
Mount Hebron High School is a public high school located in Ellicott City, Maryland. It is part of the Howard County Public School System.-About the School:...
in Ellicott City.
Maybin has a daughter, Tacori, who was born in July 2010. She was born shortly after his son was stillborn. Maybin's cousin, Cameron
Cameron Maybin
Cameron Keith Maybin is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres. He was the tenth pick in the 2005 First-Year Player Draft by The Detroit Tigers. He was consistently ranked as the Tigers top minor league prospect while in the organization.-High school:Maybin played high school...
is a Major League Baseball
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outfielder for the San Diego Padres
San Diego Padres
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While at Penn State, Maybin spoke frequently by phone with former Nittany Lion linebacker LaVar Arrington
LaVar Arrington
LaVar RaShad Arrington is a former American football linebacker of the National Football League. He was drafted second overall by the Washington Redskins in the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Penn State for coach Joe Paterno.A two-time All-American at Penn State, Arrington played...
. The two first met during Arrington's stint with the Washington Redskins
Washington Redskins
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, when Maybin was playing at nearby Mount Hebron High School
Mount Hebron High School
Mount Hebron High School is a public high school located in Ellicott City, Maryland. It is part of the Howard County Public School System.-About the School:...
. Arrington has joked about knowing Maybin "before he had muscles." Arrington now serves as Maybin's manager.
In 2009 Maybin founded Project Mayhem, a charitable organization established to “provide aid, both personal and economic, to help underprivileged and at risk youth excel beyond their current conditions.”
Maybin was roommate
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s with linebacker
Linebacker
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Navorro Bowman
Navorro Bowman
NaVorro R. Bowman is an American football inside linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, and played his collegiate football for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team.-Early years:...
while at Penn State. He was pursuing a double major in communications and integrative arts. Maybin became a member of the Delta Theta chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Alpha Psi
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fraternity in April 2008.