Carl Nassib

BIOGRAPHY

Carl Nassib was born on April 12, 1993, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He is an outside linebacker in the NFL.

Nassib attended Malvern Preparatory School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, where he was a three-year letterman in football. He played as an offensive tackle and defensive end. He helped lead Malvern Prep to a 7–4 record in both his junior and senior years. Nassib also lettered twice in basketball and three times in track & field. As a senior, he was selected team captain in basketball, helping lead the Friars to a 24–7 record and an Inter-Ac Championship.

Nassib joined the Penn State University as a walk-on in 2011. After not playing his first two years, Nassib played in 10 games as a sophomore in 2013. He recorded 12 tackles and one sack. As a junior, he appeared in all 13 games and had seven tackles and one sack. He became a starter for the first time his senior year in 2015. Nassib reached 10 sacks in only six games to start the year.

Because of his stellar 2015 season, he was named the Big Ten Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year for 2015, was presented with the Hendricks Award for the nation's top defensive end, and also given the Lombardi Award for being the best college football lineman or linebacker.

Nassib was also a finalist, for several other awards, including the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, the award given to the best defensive player in the country, along with the Burlsworth Trophy given to the nation's best player who started their career as a walk-on.

USA Today honored Nassib as a Second-Team All-American.

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Claimed by Tampa Bay off of waivers from the Cleveland Browns on September 3, 2018.

On March 27, 2020, Nassib signed a three-year, $25 million contract with the Las Vegas Raiders.

On June 21, 2021, Nassib released a statement on his Instagram account stating that he is gay, becoming the first active NFL player to come out publicly. In the statement, he pledged to donate $100,000 to The Trevor Project, an organization dedicated to crisis intervention and suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth, and to continue to champion their work. He received public support from the NFL, Raiders, Penn State, and current and former athletes. Nassib was entering his sixth NFL season and the second year of his three-year contract with the Raiders. No openly gay player has played an NFL regular-season game.

On August 16, 2022, Nassib signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.