Career
Ingram played high school football at Flint Northwestern High School in Flint, Michigan. In high school, Ingram played at the quarterback position with Andre Rison at halfback. He then played college football at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.
At Michigan State, Ingram was moved to the position of wide receiver, where he remained throughout his collegiate and professional career.
Ingram was drafted by the Giants in the first round (28th overall) in the 1987 NFL Draft. He finished the game as the Giants top receiver with five catches for 77 yards.
As a Miami Dolphin, in a game against the New York Jets, Ingram caught four touchdown passes from Dan Marino. The most notable was the game-winning touchdown, which was the result of Marino faking out the Jets defense by indicating he was going to spike the ball to stop the clock.
Instead, he lobbed a short pass to Ingram, who was open in the end zone.
Ingram retired after the 1996 season. On September 16, 2008, Ingram was sentenced to 7 years in prison and up to 5 years of probation for money laundering and fraud. He was also ordered in a Long Island federal court to pay $252,000 in restitution.
Ingram failed to show up to a federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky to turn himself in on December 5, 2008, and an arrest warrant was issued for him.
Alabama lost the game to the Utah Utes by a score of 31-17. He was housed at Yazoo City Federal Correctional Complex (Federal Communication Commission) as inmate 22749-050, but is now in the custody of the Residential Reentry Management Detroit, with an expected release date of 11/14/2015 according to the Federal Inmate Locator page.
Ingram was released from prison in early 2015. In 2008, Ingram"s son, Mark Ingram Junior., began his college football career as a running back for the Alabama Crimson Tide, coached by Nick Saban, who coached Mark Senior as an assistant at Michigan State.