:Mark Duckens

{{Short description|American football player (born 1965)}}

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

{{Infobox NFL biography

| image =

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| number = 75, 91, 95

| position = Defensive end / Defensive tackle

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|03|04}}

| birth_place = Wichita, Kansas

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lbs = 270

| high_school = Wichita North
(Wichita, Kansas)

| college = Arizona State

| undraftedyear = 1988

| pastteams =

| statlabel1 = Games played

| statvalue1 = 35

| statlabel2 = Games started

| statvalue2 = 3

| statlabel3 = Fumble recoveries

| statvalue3 = 2

| statlabel4 = Sacks

| statvalue4 = 3.0

| pfr = DuckMa20

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Mark Anthony Duckens (born March 4, 1965) is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League. He played for the New York Giants (1989), the Detroit Lions (1990), and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1992). He played at Municipal University of Wichita, now known as Wichita State University and Arizona State University. He was a defensive tackle and a defensive end. Mark also briefly played for the Indianapolis Colts as well.

In 1993, Duckens was sentenced to a six-month pretrial diversion program for steroid possession along with former New York Giants teammate Eric Moore. They were described by federal agents as “pawns in international steroid ring.”|{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-14-sp-1549-story.html|title=Federal Steroid Case Cites 2 NFL Players|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 14, 1993|access-date=2013-09-16}}

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