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| Position: | Tight end | ||||||||
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| Born: | October 19, 1947 Shelbyville, Tennessee, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died: | October 20, 2007 (aged 60) Shelbyville, Tennessee, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 234 lb (106 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Harris (TN) | ||||||||
| College: | Prairie View A&M | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1969 / Round: 4 / Pick: 81 | ||||||||
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James Robert Mitchell (October 19, 1947 – October 20, 2007) was an American professional football player who was a tight end for 11 seasons with the Atlanta Falcons in the National Football League (NFL).[1] A 6'2", 234 lbs. tight end from Prairie View A&M University, Mitchell was selected to the Pro Bowl after the 1969 and 1972 seasons. After leaving the NFL, Mitchell coached football at Morehouse College and Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, supporting the tradition of football at historically black colleges and universities.
Jim Mitchell has three sons and a daughter: Damian Mitchell, Brandon Hodges, a football player at Bethune-Cookman University who has a major in Pre-med Chemistry, and Chanee Lee, a N.C Central graduate with a masters in Business. And two grandchildren: Justin Mitchell who is a scholar at Lakeside High School in Atlanta, GA. And Jordan Mitchell.[citation needed]
He died on October 20, 2007, in Shelbyville, Tennessee, at the age of 60.[2]