Joe Cain (American football)

Joseph Harrison Cain (born June 11, 1965 in Los Angeles, California) is a former American football linebacker who played nine seasons in the National Football League.

Cain graduated in 1983 from Compton High School in Compton, California. He attended Stanford University on an academic scholarship, and joined the football team as a walk-on. He later transferred to Oregon Institute of Technology, after Greg McMackin, who was the assistant linebackers coach at Stanford, obtained the head coaching position.

He is a father of three children and grandfather of one.