Jeremy Mincey

Jeremy Lamar Mincey (born December 14, 1983) is an American professional football player who is a defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). Mincey played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he has played for the San Francisco 49ers and Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL.

Early years
Mincey was born in Statesboro, Georgia in 1983. He attended Statesboro High School, where he was a letterman in football and basketball for the Statesboro Blue Devils. Mincey graduated from Statesboro High in 2002.

College career
Mincey attended Butler County Community College, in El Dorado, Kansas, from 2002 to 2003. He was recognized as a first-team all-conference, after tallying fifty-nine total tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss, four quarterback sacks, one interception, two pass breakups, three forced fumbles, four recovered fumbles and one sack for a safety. Rivals.com rated Mincey as the No. 18 junior college player in the country.

He received an athletic scholarship to transfer to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Ron Zook and coach Urban Meyer's Florida Gators football teams in 2004 and 2005. As a senior team captain in 2005, Mincey earned second-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) honors when he ranked fourth on the team with sixty-two tackles and second with 10.5 tackles for a loss. He started in all twenty-four games in which he played for the Gators.

Mincey graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in health and human performance in 2007.

Professional career
The New England Patriots selected Mincey in the sixth round (191st pick overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft, and made the team roster for the San Francisco 49ers, but did not appear in any of the 49ers' regular season games in 2006.

Mincey was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars on December 14, 2006 off the San Francisco 49ers' practice squad. In 2007, he played in six regular season games and two playoff games and finished with twelve tackles (seven solo), one quarterback sack and six quarterback pressures. He saw action in three of the Jaguars' games in 2008.

He was injured and waived on August 26, 2009, and subsequently reverted to injured reserve list and did not play during the 2009 season. In 2010, Mincey played in fifteen games, started eight of them, while compiling thirty-one tackles and three pass deflections. He started all sixteen games and compiled eight sacks during the 2011 season, which led the team. Faced with free agency, Mincey signed a new four-year contract with the Jaguars on March 13, 2012.