Shannon Clavelle
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Shannon Lynn Clavelle is a former American football
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 defensive end
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 in the National Football League
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 for the Green Bay Packers
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 and the Kansas City Chiefs
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. He played college football
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 at the University of Colorado
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Although Clavelle was drafted
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 by the Buffalo Bills
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 in the sixth round (185th overall) of the 1995 NFL Draft
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, he debuted in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers in 1995
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. He played on the Packers Super Bowl XXXI
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 Championship team of 1996. In 1997
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, he played six games with the Packers and finished his career that year playing in one game with the Kansas City Chiefs.

While at Colorado, Clavelle fathered a child Derek with Kristy McCartney, the daughter of then-coach Bill McCartney. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1006171/index.htm
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