:Mark Cooney

{{Short description|American football player (1951–2011)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Mark Cooney

| number = 58

| position = Linebacker

| birth_date = {{birth date|1951|6|2}}

| birth_place = Denver, Colorado, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|6|2|1951|6|2}}

| death_place = Arvada, Colorado, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lbs = 230

| college = Colorado

| draftyear = 1974

| draftround = 16

| draftpick = 402

| pastteams =

• Green Bay Packers (1974)

| statlabel1 = Games played

| statvalue1 = 13

| pfr = CoonMa20

}}

Mark Cooney (born Mark Joseph Cooney{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CoonMa20.htm|title=Mark Cooney|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|accessdate=2011-07-11}}) (June 2, 1951 – June 2, 2011) was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). Cooney was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the sixteenth round of the 1974 NFL draft and played that season with the team.

Cooney, then a linebacker at Colorado was named an MVP of the 1972 Gator Bowl, which Colorado lost 3–24 to Auburn.

Cooney was a long-time real estate broker in Arvada, Colorado. He was also a member of the Board of Elders of Faith Bible Chapel.{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/denverpost/obituary.aspx?n=mark-cooney&pid=151505965|title=Mark Cooney Obituary|publisher=Denver Post|accessdate=2011-07-11}}

He died in Arvada, Colorado on June 2, 2011.