Brad Culpepper

At 54 years old, Brad Culpepper has this physical status:

John Broward "Brad" Culpepper (born May 8, 1969) is an American former professional football player who competed for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL) from 1990 to 2000.

When Culpepper played college football for the Florida Gators, he was regarded as an All-American.

He was drafted in the tenth round of the 1992 NFL Draft, making him a consistent starter for the Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Chicago Bears. Culpepper has also appeared on two seasons of the American reality television show Survivor, including Blood vs. Water and Survivor: Game Changers.

Early life

In 1969, Culpepper was born in Tallahassee, Florida. He attended Leon High School in Tallahassee, where he was a key prep player for the Leon Lions high school football team.

Culpepper was born into a family of University of Florida graduates. Bruce Culpepper, Jr., was a center for the Gators football team from 1960 to 1962, co-captain of their 1962 Gator Bowl team, and then became a well-known Tallahassee attorney. Blair Culpepper, the uncle of George Culpepper, was a fullback in 1957 and 1958 and became a bank president in Winter Park, Florida. J. Broward Culpepper, his grandfather, was a Florida native and served as the chancellor of the State University System of Florida.

Life after football

Culpepper is now a trial advocate for the Culpepper Kurland law firm in Tampa, Florida. Since his retirement, he has voiced his dissatisfaction with NFL players' increasing size; he claims that the increasing number of 300-pound (140 kg) players has caused significant health issues. Culpepper inflated his body to 280 pounds (130 kg) during his football career; after he retired from professional football, he shed almost 100 pounds (45 kg).

Monica Culpepper's wife was selected as a participant in the 24th season of CBS reality television show Survivor prior to his appearances.

Monica and Brad appeared together in the show's 27th season of Survivor: Blood vs. Water. While Monica was the season's runner-up, Culpepper was the sixth player to be banned from the game and ended in 15th position.

Culpepper was one of 16 former male players eligible to vote in Survivor's 31st season, Survivor: Cambodia, on May 6, 2015. However, he was not voted on it.

Culpepper was announced on February 8, 2017 as one of the contestants competing in Survivor: Game Changers, the show's 34th season, which premiered in March 2017. During Culpepper's second season, he played very consistently and stayed loyal to his his clubs, despite being in the minority for the majority. However, he won five individual immunity challenges at his endgame, a feat shared only by a few other top Survivors, which sent him to the Final Three with Sarah Lacina and "Troyzan" Robertson. Although Culpepper's good social game and was a leading threat, he became more reckless and made some remarks against Tai Trang, whom other players regarded as condescending in the last few days. Aubry Bracco, a fellow tribemate, appeared on YouTube, implying that she had reservations about voting for Brad Brad to win because of his "racist and sexist tendencies." The jury favored Lacina's inventive tactical and social games over Culpepper's physical dominance, and she was given the honor of "Sole Survivor" in a 7–3–0 vote. Culpepper was ranked third in the first three votes, making him the runner-up.

Personal life

When Culpepper first arrived at the University of Florida in 1990, he met Monica Frakes as a sophomore. The couple married only weeks after Culpepper was recruited into the NFL in 1992. The couple have three children together. Rex, the family's oldest son, was a quarterback at Syracuse University, and their other son, Judge Jason, is a defensive lineman at Penn State. He and his partner, Monica, are the only Survivor pair to win in separate seasons. Interestingly, Monica and Brad in Survivor: Blood vs. Water and Brad won this feat in their second time playing the game. Amber Brkich, the only couple to have won Survivor, is similar to Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich of Survivor: Redemption Island, Survivor.

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College career

Culpepper accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Galen Hall and coach Steve Spurrier's Gators teams from 1988 to 1991. During his senior season in 1991, Culpepper was a standout defensive tackle and team captain on the Gators' Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship team, a first-team All-SEC selection and a consensus first-team All-American. He finished his college career with eighteen quarterback sacks and 47.5 tackles for a loss. He was also named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll all four years, was a first-team Academic All-American, and received the Draddy Trophy recognizing him as college football's most outstanding student-athlete. While Culpepper was a Florida undergraduate, he was also an active member of Sigma Chi Fraternity (Gamma Theta Chapter).

Culpepper graduated from Florida with his bachelor's degree in history after his junior year, and enrolled in a master's degree program in exercise and sports sciences during his senior football season. After finishing his professional playing career, Culpepper returned to graduate school and law school full-time, and earned his master's degree and J.D. degree from Florida in 2001. He was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2001. The sports editors of The Gainesville Sun ranked him as the No. 47 all-time greatest player of the first 100 seasons of the Florida Gators football team in 2006.

Professional career

Culpepper was a tenth round selection (264th overall pick) in the 1992 NFL Draft by the Minnesota Vikings, and he played for the Vikings from 1992 to 1993, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1994 to 1999, and the Chicago Bears in 2000. In his nine-year professional career, Culpepper played in 131 games, started 83 of them, and recorded 34 quarterback sacks and one safety.

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