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| Born | (1977-07-11)July 11, 1977 (age 48) McKeesport, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 245 lb (111 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | McKeesport Area | ||||||||||||
| College | Penn State | ||||||||||||
| NFL draft | 2000: 4th round, 105th overall pick | ||||||||||||
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Brandon Darrell Short (born July 11, 1977) is an American former professionalfootball player who was alinebacker for seven seasons in theNational Football League (NFL). He playedcollege football for thePenn State Nittany Lions, earning consensusAll-American honors in 1999. He played professionally for theNew York Giants andCarolina Panthers of the NFL, and was a member the Giants' team that played inSuper Bowl XXXV. He is currently Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at Round Hill Capital in London and a member of the Pennsylvania State University's board of trustees.
Short was born inMcKeesport, Pennsylvania. He attendedMcKeesport Area High School, where he playedhigh school football for the McKeesport Tigers. He was namedAssociated Press Pennsylvania Big School Player-of-the-Year as a senior after compiling 171 tackles, eightsacks, twointerceptions, five forced fumbles, six fumble recoveries and one blocked punt and leading the Tigers to the Class AAAA state championship and a 15–0 record. Helettered four times in bothfootball andbasketball. He was named to theUSA Today list of Top 25 high school players in the country, a high school All-American and was the 1995 Big 33 Most Valuable Player. A superb basketball player as well, Short was a member of a McKeesport team that attained the No. 1 state ranking his senior year.
Short attended Penn State University, where he was a four-year starter and two-time captain for coachJoe Paterno'sPenn State Nittany Lions football team. He was named defensiveMVP of the 1998Citrus Bowl,[1] andAll-Big Ten as a senior and junior.
Short earnedAll-American honors as a senior in1999. He and teammateLaVar Arrington were the first teammates to be chosen as finalists for theButkus Award as the nation's toplinebacker. Together they made up one of the most fearsome linebacker duos ever to play at "Linebacker U", capping their senior season with a 24-0shutout ofTexas A&M in the 1999Alamo Bowl. Short led the team with 103 tackles and foursacks that season.
Short played on five snaps as a true freshman in Penn State's first game with Texas Tech. The following week, he broke a bone in his foot and spent most of the rest of the season in rehabilitation, practicing but not playing in the final month of the season to earn a medical red shirt. The next season Short started every game at rush end/linebacker and led the Nittany Lions with 12 tackles for -50 yards, while his 3.5 sacks for -20 yards was among the team's best. His tackle total was 48 (20 solo) and he caused and recovered a fumble, blocked a field goal and broke up two passes. He was in for 812 plays. Everything began to click for Short as he got used to his new position and he totaled a season-high 10 tackles, and caused and recovered a fumble in the season finale with Michigan State. His play in the Fiesta Bowl included six stops, among them two tackles for loss (-11 yards) and a sack.
On the original list of Butkus Award candidates, Short made stops (42 solo), fourth on the team, despite missing the better part of three games with an ankle injury. He started eight regular season games and was in for 563 snaps. Short anchored a defense that while bending and giving up some yardage, managed to hold six teams to 17 points or less. He recorded 12 tackles for losses, tied for second on the team, with 2.5 sacks, an interception and three pass breakups. Short earned team Defensive MVP honors in the Citrus Bowl.
Short led the Lions resurgence and topped the squad in tackles en route to first-team All-Big Ten honors. He recorded 67 tackles (49 solo) with 15 tackles for -42 yards. and 5.5 sacks. A semi-finalist for the Butkus Award. Short tied his career high with 10 stops (8 solo) at Minnesota, including a career best 3 sacks to earn Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week, and ABC Player of the Game honors.
Short earned hisBachelor of Science degree in marketing from Penn State in 1999.
A fourth-round pick of theNew York Giants (#105 overall) in the2000 NFL draft played five seasons for the New York Giants and two for the Carolina Panthers.[2]
In his rookie year saw action in 11 regular season games and was inactive for five games because of an ankle injury. Appeared in all three of the Giants postseason contest, includingSuper Bowl XXXV.
Short was involved in an infamous 2002training camp cafeteria fistfight with teammateJeremy Shockey. The two players brawled after Shockey, arookie, refused to sing his collegefight song—a training camphazing ritual.[1][2]
Short was in the news again after he brokeNew York JetsquarterbackChad Pennington'swrist during a tackle in the 2003 Giants-Jetspreseason game. Pennington would miss the first six games of the2003 season.[3]
Short signed as afree agent with theCarolina Panthers in 2004, and appeared in all 32 games at strongside linebacker withCarolina in 2004 and 2005.[3] He tallied 70tackles and helped the Panther's defense collect 38 take-aways, which tied a team record. He returned to theNew York Giants in April2006, signing as afree agent.
| Year | Team | GP | Tackles | Fumbles | Interceptions | ||||||||||
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| Cmb | Solo | Ast | Sck | FF | FR | Yds | Int | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | PD | |||
| 2000 | NYG | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | NYG | 16 | 61 | 45 | 16 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 21.0 | 21 | 0 | 4 |
| 2002 | NYG | 16 | 88 | 63 | 25 | 3.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 32.0 | 32 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | NYG | 16 | 74 | 48 | 26 | 3.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | CAR | 16 | 53 | 40 | 13 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | CAR | 16 | 60 | 42 | 18 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | NYG | 9 | 45 | 38 | 7 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Career[4] | 100 | 384 | 279 | 105 | 9.5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 53 | 26.5 | 32 | 0 | 11 | |
Short was an NFL analyst for Daily News Live, a current T.V. show with NY media panels who analyze NY sports on the SNY Network in NYC. He earned anMBA fromColumbia Business School in 2010, and began working forGoldman Sachs that year.[5] He moved to the firm'sDubai unit in 2012.[6]
Short left Goldman Sachs in April 2013 to co-found World Business Partners UAE,[7] a Middle East lender specializing in loans for small- and medium-sized companies which comply with Islam's ban oninterest, along with the religion's bans on investments in alcohol, firearms, and other products.[7] In 2015, Short moved to London where he joined Cerberus Capital Management. In 2017, he moved to Round Hill Capital, a fully integrated real estate investment and management firm, where he is Director of Mergers and Acquisitions. In 2018 Short was elected to the Pennsylvania State University's board of trustees.