Education
Ohio University.
Ohio University.
Cox lettered three years in both track and football at Beechcroft High School in Columbus, earning special mention all-state recognition in football his senior year. Cox became a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do in his Junior year. He holds the Ohio school record for the 40 yard dash (437 seconds), and started every game his sophomore and junior years, but battled injuries as a senior, only playing in nine games.
Cox was originally signed by the Detroit Lions as an undrafted rookie free agent on April 28, 2005, and he spent the 2005 training camp and preseason with the team
However, Cox was released on August 30, and he subsequently played in the Canadian Football League for the Montreal Alouettes. On January 9, 2007, he was signed by the Washington Redskins but was cut before training camp and returned to Montreal.
In 2013 Cox had a career high, and league leading number of tackles with 114. With his 114 tackles that season, he broke the Montreal Alouettes single-season record of 110 set by Tracy Gravely in the 1996 Canadian Football League season.
He is the club"s all-time leader in defensive tackles with 717.
In his 10th season in the Canadian Football League, Cox is still one of the top defensive players of the league. So far, in his career he has recorded 717 tackles, 25 sacks, 22 interceptions and 8 fumbles recoveries. He is also a 4-times Canadian Football League all-star and an 6-times East division all-star.
On December 2, 2014, the Alouettes announced that they had resigned Cox to a three-year deal worth more than $200,000 annually, which general manager Jim Popp stated would make him the Canadian Football League’s highest-paid defensive player.
As a player for the Ohio Bobcats, Cox recorded 240 career tackles (176 solo), nine tackles for losses, five sacks, four interceptions, 29 passes defended, seven forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and three blocked field goals.
He was also a member of the Ohio Bobcats track and field team, where he was a premiere sprinter and placed sixth in the 100 meter dash at the 2004 Mid-American Conference championships. He was a member of both the 97th Grey Cup and 98th Grey Cup championship team with the Montreal Alouettes.