Derrick Brooks

Derrick Dewan Brooks is an American former football linebacker who played for his entire 14-year career in the National Football League (NFL) with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brooks played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, earning consensus All-American honors twice. He was selected by the Buccaneers in the first round of the 1995 NFL draft. An 11-time Pro Bowl selection and five-time first-team All-Pro, Brooks was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2002 en route to winning the franchise's first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XXXVII. Following his retirement, Brooks served as co-owner and president of the Tampa Bay Storm in the Arena Football League (AFL) from 2011 to 2017. He was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2016.

18 April 1973

Born on the same birth date (18 April 1973): Haile Gebrselassie

Born on the same birth day (18 April): Aleksanteri Aava • Jacques Widerkehr • Joseph L. Goldstein • Mika Zibanejad • Otto Piene • Samuel P. Huntington • Tadeusz Mazowiecki • Vanessa Kirby

Born in the same month (April 1973): Brendan Cannon • Brett Maher (basketball) • Damon Lindelof • David Miller (tenor) • Eric Snow • Haile Gebrselassie • Jules and Gédéon Naudet • Kelly Price • Khaled Badra • Marco Delvecchio • Peter Hoekstra (footballer) • Roberto Ayala • Ryan Kisor • Stephen Fleming • Sun Wen (footballer)