Brooks received an honorary doctorate degree in human letters from St. DeBartolo Jr., Brooks co-founded the Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High School in Tampa in 2005. In partnership with Pro Football Hall of Famer Edward J. in Pensacola in 1997, which worked to develop educational youth programs and opportunities in the Tampa Bay community. He founded Derrick Brooks Charities, Inc. In 2018, Brooks became a minority investor in the minor league baseball team, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos.
Brooks was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2011, he became the co-owner and president of the Tampa Bay Storm team of the Arena Football League. In 2010, Brooks announced his retirement from the NFL and was elected to the 2000s All Decade Defensive Team. During that time, Brooks joined ESPN2’s First Take as an NFL analyst and signed with Sirius NFL Radio in 2009. He recorded 2,198 tackles, the most in franchise history, along with eight defensive touchdowns, second highest in Buccaneers history. In 2009, Brooks was released from the Buccaneers, and was declared a free agent for the 2009 season. During his fourteen year career with the Buccaneers, Brooks was an eleven-time Pro Bowl selection and nine-time All Pro. He was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year after the Buccaneers’ Super Bowl victory in 2002. degree in business communications from Florida State University in 1999.īrooks was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round of the 1995 NFL Draft. degree in business communications from FSU in 1995, and his M.S. He was also a four-year letterman, a consensus first-team All-American his junior and senior years, a three-time first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection from 1992 to 1994, and named two-time Consensus first-team All-American in 19, and Atlantic Coast Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 1993. At FSU, he was a member of the 1993 Seminoles National Championship team. Washington High School in 1990, and enrolled at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee.
Raised by his mother and stepfather, Arthur Mitchel, Brooks graduated from Pensacola’s Booker T. Football player Derrick Brooks was born on Apin Pensacola, Florida to Geraldine Brooks and John Brooks.
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