James Kevin Mack is a former professional 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...

 player who played running back

Running back

A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...

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Early life

Mack was born in Kings Mountain

Kings Mountain, North Carolina

Kings Mountain is a small suburban city of Gastonia and Charlotte in Cleveland and Gaston counties, North Carolina, United States. The population was 9,693 at the 2000 census....

, North Carolina

North Carolina

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. He played football collegiately

College football

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 at Clemson University

Clemson University

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Career

Mack played for the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League

United States Football League

The United States Football League was an American football league which was in active operation from 1983 to 1987. It played a spring/summer schedule in its first three seasons and a traditional autumn/winter schedule was set to commence before league operations ceased.The USFL was conceived in...

 (USFL) in 1984.

He was selected by the Cleveland Browns

Cleveland Browns

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 in the 1st round (11th overall) of the 1984 NFL Supplemental Draft of USFL and CFL Players

1984 NFL Supplemental Draft of USFL and CFL Players

The National Football League held a draft of United States Football League and Canadian Football League players on June 5, 1984. In an attempt to head off a bidding war in its own ranks for USFL and CFL players. NFL teams chose 84 players from 224 available during the three-round selection meeting...

. During his rookie

Rookie

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 season with the Browns in 1985, he rushed for 1,104 yards and 7 touchdowns. Mack played for the Browns for nine seasons, from 1985 to 1993. In 1985 Mack rushed for 1,104 yards and halfback Earnest Byner

Earnest Byner

Earnest Alexander Byner is a former American football running back in the National Football League and is currently a running backs coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars...

 rushed for 1,002 yards becoming just the third pair of teammates to run for over 1,000 yards for the same team in the same season. Nicknamed "Mack Truck", he was a two-time Pro Bowl

Pro Bowl

In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League . Since the merger with the rival American Football League in 1970, it has been officially called the AFC–NFC Pro Bowl, matching the top players in the American Football Conference against those...

selection in 1985 and 1987.

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